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Artemis- Smart Phone

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  1. Artemis did not pat his pockets searching for his phone, because he
  2. always kept his phone in the same pocket. Indeed, he always had his
  3. tailors sew a leather-flapped zipper into his right breast pocket so that
  4. his phone could not be mislaid. For if Artemis Fowl mislaid his
  5. modified phone, it would be a little more serious than if Johnny
  6. Highschool happened to lose the latest touch-screen model, unless
  7. Johnny Highschool’s phone happened to have enough tech inside it to
  8. easily hack any government site, a nice little laser pointer that could be
  9. focused to burn through metal, and the first draft of Artemis Fowl’s
  10. memoirs, which did a little more than kiss and tell.
  11. Artemis’s fingers were cold and numb, but after a few attempts he
  12. managed to paw the zipper open and fumble out his phone. On screen
  13. the phone was playing a photo slideshow of his mother while the
  14. opening bars of “Siren Song” soared through the tiny speakers.
  15. “Phone,” he said clearly, holding in a button on the casing to
  16. activate voice control.
  17. “Yes, Artemis,” said the phone in Lily Frond’s voice, a voice that
  18. Artemis had picked simply to annoy Holly.
  19. “Accept the call.”
  20. “Of course, Artemis.”
  21. A moment later the connection was made. The signal was weak, but
  22. that did not matter as Artemis’s phone had speech auto-fill software
  23. that was ninety-five percent accurate.
  24. “Hello, Mother. How are you?”
  25. …
  26.  
  27. “So you are in Iceland?”
  28. Artemis was glad there was no video feed, as it was more difficult to
  29. lie face-to-face.
  30. “Of course I am. Why do you ask?”
  31. “I ask because the GPS puts you in the North Atlantic Ocean.”
  32. Artemis frowned. His mother had insisted on a GPS function on the
  33. phone if she were to allow him to go off alone.
  34. “That’s probably just a bug in the program,” said Artemis as he
  35. quickly tapped into the GPS application and manually set his location
  36. to Reykjavík. “Sometimes the locater is a little off. Give it another
  37. try.”
  38. Silence for moment, but for the tapping of keys, then another
  39. hmmm.
  40.  
  41. - The Atlantis Complex, Chapter 8
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