An old #smartphone is a time capsule you never knew you were filling
April 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
A couple of weeks ago I went home for the weekend, and, finding myself stranded in my childhood bedroom, began rooting through the drawers of my old desk like a nostalgic hog. Among the detritus of my teenage years (a sediment of empty lighters, old CDs, and books of poetry that would thrill the heart of any would-be blackmailer) I found something unexpected: my first ‘proper’ smartphone, an 8-year-old HTC Hero that saw me through most of university.
I was incredibly proud of this phone when I bought it, and it still retained all its old charm. It has a chin! And a trackball! And it sits so neatly in the hand unlike our modern-day wafers of glass and metal! Straight away, I plugged it in to charge. With its 528 MHz processor and 288 MB…
