"I have my own nomination for an "idea that, if embraced, would pose the greatest threat to the welfare of humanity": Banning technological progress in the name of humility."
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I'm always one for the underdog, and I'd be lying if I said that wasn't a big part of why I chose to purchase a Helio Ocean last winter. At the time, I was looking for a slick smartphone that wasn't a Blackberry, had 3G (so the iPhone was out), and generally appealed to my geeky sensibilities. The Ocean, Helio's flagship phone, fit the bill quite nicely--so I eagerly made the jump.
(Honestly, I was waiting for the release of Google's Android phones, but knowing that they wouldn't show up until the end of 2008 (at the absolute ...
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The iPhone 3G announcement has come and gone, and it seems like the main take-away for many is the $199 price, along with the new 3G and GPS capabilities. Of those three, I think the surprisingly low price for the 8GB iPhone 3G is the most important. Let's face it, while 3G and GPS are new features to the iPhone, they're not exactly fresh technologies in the cellphone market.
But while I'm all for a cheaper iPhone, I'm personally more interested in the iPhone software announcements from the WWDC than anything else. Everything from the SDK, to ...
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