Clive Thompson on the Death of the Phone Call

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Bring it on. I hate phones.

I make very few phone calls, and if only my crazy-ass plan wouldn't charge me for SMS when the phone calls are free, I'd make even fewer.

ATT accidentally turned off SMS on my phone. I use Google Voice (android), so I just enabled SMS checking. Saves me up to $20/mo, though I do need to be somewhere with data service to get a message through.

To me, the phone is a mobile data platform that has a neat voice feature my grandma likes to use sometimes.

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