I was about 14 when I got my first cell phone. I was in sports at school and it was convenient to be able to call my parents to come pick me up whenever we were done, seems how the let out time varied. I enjoyed having the phone and tried to take care of it, but one day it died, right in the front of the grocery store. My little sister was 2 at the time and we had gotten groceries and she had gotten a little antsy to leave while we were waiting in line. I was trying to entertain or distract her a little bit while our mom finished checking out. The baby was tired of sitting in the cart so I slid my phone into the wide front pocket on my pull-over hoodie so that I could free my hands to pick my sister up and place her onto my hip. My mom finished paying and we started walking towards the door, and to distract my whiny sister I circled around and she giggled a little, so I began to twirl around and gallop a little. Mid jump, I felt the phone fly out of my pocket, and I looked up to see where it went and as I landed from the jump it busted in two. I had no idea how it happened so quickly, but we landed right on top of my phone. It was a flip phone, and it had landed upside down and when we landed on it, it busted in two. There were wires that had connected the two pieces but they had been severed as well. The back plate of the phone had came off and the battery and memory card were damaged.

Back then, phones were much more basic and given that it was a cheap phone even for the times, the only thing I really lost was the phone numbers that I had stored. It had a camera, but it was such poor quality that I never tried taking pictures with it. These days, phones store so much more information. Phone numbers, email addresses, music, books, photos, videos. What if those photos and videos aren’t posted online or haven’t been printed out? Would you lose irreplaceable pictures of your children or other loved ones?

Asurion is a program that allows you to backup your smartphone so that in the case that it gets broken, lost or stolen you will still have all of our precious data from your memory card. It also allows you to lock your phone in the event that it is lost or stolen, so that anyone who finds the phone will be unable to access your information.

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Emily

Hi there! I am Emily Evert, the owner of Emily Reviews. I am 28 and live in a small town in Michigan with my boyfriend Ryan and our two pugs. I have a large family and I adore my nieces and nephews. I love reading memoirs, and learning about child development and psychology. I love watching The Game of Thrones, Teen Mom, Sister Wives and Veep. I like listening to Jason Isbell, John Prine, and other alt-country or Americana music. I created Emily Reviews as a creative outlet to share my life and the products that I love with others.

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