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Originally Posted by acme.mail.order (Post 444775)

My wife's phone has a browser, pc-grade email, camera, movie, calendar, 500-entry address book, 1Gb memory card, barcode reader, GPS navigation with moving map and voice prompt, alarm clock, voice recorder and TV!!

Mine is 3 years old and has all the above except the TV ( FM radio instead ) and a smaller memory card.

Really makes you wonder about the technology gap vis-à-vis what is sold in the West, doesn’t it? It’s almost embarrassing!
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I wouldn't necessarily say "embarrassing". There's a button on mine, never used, that instantly adds a full-colour animated Disney theme to the display. Wifey's phone has animated penguins.