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My assignment: Review apps that promised to place free calls on cell phones. Simple enough. But it was one that would take days to complete. There would be testing involved, yes, but first, I had to get those apps.
I visited the various app websites (many of which no longer exist), looked for the download links and confirmed the downloads with browser pop-ups. Then, if I was lucky enough to succeed and avoid the dreaded error messages, I would go find the apps in the download folder. It was a time- consuming process, one which very few would see through to the end after reading a short review about the app.
Yet I persevered, and completed the article.
That was in while I was on staff at Laptop Magazine. It was just about six months before Apple released its on July 10, 2008.
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