Smartphones And Schoolwork May Not Be Such A Great Combination After All

Today’s Solutions: February 23, 2026

A student uses a mobile phone near the Samsung Electronics’ new tablet Galaxy Tab 10.1 with Apple’s white iPad on display, center, at the showroom in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Oct. 3, 2011. If Samsung is to live up to the vaulting ambitions of its homeland and its top executives, many feel it must move beyond being a highly efficient imitator to creating products so original and seductive in function and design they become icons of consumer culture. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

This article was originally published on November 23, 2016

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