What If Smartphones Were Never Invented? | Unveiled

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1. Would you miss smartphones if they were gone?

2. Where the flip phones at?!

3. I would never have missed it. Mine often gets left in the car or house when im busy.

4. I'm 27 years old. I own a smart phone but don't actively use it, or even carry it around with me.
   I also don't use social media such as Facebook or Twitter. I'm the modern day Grizzly Adams, right?
   Not really, I just enjoy the peace I get from not being constantly connected to the world.
   I used it regularly for a while, but was growing frustrated with the aggravation of people constantly
   texting, calling, or messaging me, and bombarding me with questions like "Why didn't you answer my
   call?" or "I know you seen that text!" (Sometimes just a minute or so after the initial message…)
   I'm not saying that everyone needs to live less connected, but it's just not for me.
   Aside from that I enjoy all the other benefits of having the internet at my fingertips, but I can easily
   do so without a smart phone on my person at all times.

5. A crazy thought: imagine a world where everyone got smartphones at birth including social media along with it, at birth

6. It's not the smart phone that's the problem, it's social media.

7. I remember at uni. waiting at a phone box, and there was a queue! Nowadays, finding a phone box is a thing, I don’t even know where they are situated!

8. Then there would be alot more gangs.i was in a gang n ran the streets making trouble n shit cause there was shit else to do.

9. "In this video, Unveiled imagines an almost inconceivable reality – one in which the smartphone doesn't even exist!" – quote
   Inconceivable?! Believe it or not, I actually remember such a world. I call it "The 20th century". Catchy title, no?

10. Some of this is flat wrong. We had texting via pagers, GPS, and digital cameras before they were all pooled together in one device. Palm pilots also had a lot of the app function of smart phones, and iPhones would have instead evolved into multimedia caddies instead of just music. The rest would have still stuck around on computers and just spread more slowly.

11. We would all be better off. I only use a flip-phone ("old" technology), and it is good enough for what I need it for (i.e. as an actual telephone).

12. Smartphones help save lives, and helps keeps us all connected which is needed for us to advance as an overall species. Without smartphones racism, sexism, corruption and overall discrimination would not get the attention it deserves. It's one thing to hear about issues, but entirely different to see them for yourselves. Image the horrible things we would see if smartphones existed back in the early 1900s

13. Nothing

14. Social media has been influential for around the last 10 years and 5 years where our phones became powerful enough to use these platforms on our phones. The best thing I did recently is removing Facebook off my phone. It was becoming so intrusive that it would send about a dozen messages a day. This guy doesn't address enough that we ultimately do have the power how to regulate this technology, so not becoming a slave to it.

15. In the office pantry, people will be talking in groups during lunch hours instead of being glued on their smartphones while alone

16. I remember when my phone was a multi-tool half ? half phone

17. You left out how this would impact companies like Uber or Amazon and how we order goods online.

    The taxi companies would still have the monopoly and be charging high prices,

    we'd still be ordering take away with a landline or maybe in a website using a PC,

    Companies like eBay, AliExpress and Amazon wouldn't be as big, borders might still be in business,

    AND no apps. The development of applications doesn't just make up games and social media. That would also mean less access to online banking which might have an impact to how physical, walk in Banks might look and feel like today on every level.

    Lastly, telcos would still be charging a lot just x mins of talk, international calls would still be something to limit due to there being no data plans yet.

    And we'd be less paranoid about being spied on. This rabbit hole goes deep but I'll stop here.

18. Ever heard of a tablet, an iPad, and an iPod?

19. This is weak. We would use cameras. Pay phones would have evolved and more user friendly.

20. Captain obvious video here

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22. I know I'm in the minority, but if it were up to me, no one who is a minor could have a smart phone and advertising would not exist.  Simple phones that parents could have preprogrammed with the numbers they want their children to be able to call and receive calls from would still be available along with emergency number access.

23. Cell phones ain't been around for 50 years

24. We would be more social

25. Hi unveiled
    Another interesting topic
    Thank you..???

26. Do a what is the Orange drumpf was swallowed by his mother?

27. In online dating the girl look beautiful when you see her OMG it's not what I expected to see.

28. I have a massive love/hate attitude towards smart tech. It can ruin relationships and become addictive but is also extremely useful and becoming a necessity to everyday life.

29. interesting video, but it felt like most of this video was a negative side of smartphones and very little positive. Yes smartphones changed everything but it has enabled us to do things we couldn't imagine before in a big positive way.

30. How many people watching this on a smart phone? Not me bruv, I'm at a desk top watching this while working.

31. What if we invented dumbphone

32. Last time I was this early we still used large expensive computers for any type of communication

33. If smartphones were never invented then only a few of us in this comments section would be this early to a video, a lot of us are not on a desktop right now.

34. It’s all in your fingertits

35. Watching this on my smartphone while sitting in WC ?

36. Next Up: What if Google never collaborated with YouTube?

37. Technology is the worst enemy of nature.

38. Really great

39. I remembered when the only game available on my cellphone was Snakes.

40. Life would be better …

41. Coming from the 90s I never really had one but truthfully I would last without a smartphone and do things the old fashioned way since I don't use it like everyone else. Much respect unveiled!!! ?

42. What you think if mobile had never invented

43. Amazing its great

44. nice

45. Then I wouldn't be watching this right now.

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