In 2009, iPhones and other smartphones weren't new, but they were expensive and exclusive to certain service providers (the iPhone 4 was the first iPhone available through Verizon, for example, and that was in 2010). Many people in 2009 were still walking around with flip phones, slider phones to reveal full keyboards, or Blackberries that had limited or no internet access. In today's modern world, people will audibly gasp if someone pulls out a flip phone.