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Whatever you do, do not factory reset the phone. That turns a bad afternoon into a locked device.

The laptop does not know it is on a phone, and it will behave exactly as if it were at home.

The rising line in the app is you learning the test. That is real, and it is narrower than the advertising suggests.

The tell is the first screen. A team sheet means a management game; a shop means an economy wearing a sport.

Every version of this goes wrong in the same place: a phone on four per cent and an address nobody can remember.

The expensive mistakes on a foreign road trip are all administrative, and all of them are avoidable from the sofa.

A phone at minus ten reports a charge it cannot deliver. Plan the day around that, not around the app.

The front page of a supermarket app is an advertisement. The repeat-order list is the same shop, cheaper.

Every expensive mistake in a finished room started as a measurement nobody wrote down.

In a tight market the flat is not won at the viewing. It is won in the twenty minutes after the listing appears.

Fifteen milliseconds is invisible. Eighty is a different game, and no setting on the phone will fix it.

The file downloaded successfully. Finding it is a separate problem with its own rules.

The problem with the popular ones is rarely the game. It is the chat window.

A strategy game on a phone is a strategy game you are reading through a letterbox.

Everything you want to watch has to be on the phone before the doors close, and some of it expires.

The wind that pushes you out in the morning is the wind you have to come back against.

The warning light was cleared this morning. There is an app that can tell you that.

The hard part is not choosing the music. It is the four seconds of silence between songs while somebody argues.

A phone is a decent rangefinder, a very good scorecard and a poor swing coach.

The restaurant is not full. It just has no way of telling you that from inside the app you are holding.

The battery did not fail. It got cold, the chemistry slowed down, and the phone could not tell the difference.

It is a radio with a range of about two centimetres, and almost every NFC problem is a distance problem.

A big world on a phone is a four gigabyte download and a hot battery. Some of them are worth both.

Three pounds once, or free and then asked for money every eight minutes. The second one is not cheaper.