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Is there any indication in Sons Of Anarchy that it does not take place in the present day?

I'm just curious, because all the technology you see in that show seems older.  The computers are always clunky desktops with floppy drives, and every cell phone is a flip-phone.  You'd think at least one person in Charming owns a smartphone!  Or a laptop.  Or at least a tower.  The cars seem a little older, too.  Not sure about the bikes, I'm not a rider so I wouldn't know and that might be fudged because Harley Davidson is sponsoring the show and they probably threw a few newer models into the mix as product placement. So is there any indication that Sons Of Anarchy does not take place in the present day?

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There are plenty of recent vehicles (Tara's, Gemma's, Pope's, etc). As for phones, I'm pretty sure that both Tara and their lawyer have been shown using smartphones. The club members are shown with flip-phones because often the cheap, no-contract style phones (at least here in the US) are the older style flip phones. It's much easier to use those as "burner" phones. The only computer I remember off hand is in the office at Teller-Morrow and I don't think it's unusual to see that. I've been to quite a few auto repair places that still have old clunky computers with CRT monitors.

