Thursday, April 17, 2008

"Insomnia", 20 questions and Cell Phones

For some reason, I woke up far too early this morning and was unable to return to sleep. Decided to fire up the computer and do some research on cell phones (halfway contemplating upgrading mine, after all)-- and wound up doing one of those "Answer this quiz to find your best cell phone!?" tests. Do those things EVER work right?

I wound up getting five recommendations-- one of which was the nice Nokia E70. Too bad no US carriers offer this phone, and it's way out of my price range. :P

So, I started digging through Google Products for the Nokia E70-- and found out there's a surprising demand for "dummy phones." Not sure what that's all about. Maybe it's for people who want to pretend to have fancy, expensive phones they can't afford? Or some sort of theft decoy for stores?

Then, on the other end of the spectrum, we have a very expensive secured/hardened version of the Nokia E70. This is the kind of phone someone like G. Gordon Liddy would have, I think.

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