The five lessons I learned from breaking my smartphone

After a washing up disaster, our writer has been without her handheld helper for six weeks. How has she coped?

About 2 billion people use smartphones across the globe, with more than half the population in developed countries relying on them daily. In fact, according to research by psychologists, we spend on average about five hours each a day doing so, flicking it on as many as 85 times.

I was one of those people, until a few weeks ago.