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Mobile phones
Apple takes on Asia
By launching the iPhone months before the device reached Asia, Apple CEO Steve Jobs was forcing his would-be competitors to react to the media hype and show their hands.
The Apple iPhone is a stalking horse.
Look, ma! No buttons!
No doubt about it, the iPhone does not look like other cellphones—it has no buttons and no keypad. What it has is a screen that changes its display in response to finger taps to either a virtual keyboard or a virtual phone pad or a virtual movie screen or… well, you get the idea.
Uptown phones for the uptown girls
One week after Steve Jobs introduced the much-awaited iPhone to the world, LG unveiled a phone that looked eerily like the iPhone, the PRADA phone.
Beyond prestige
Seven years ago, cellphones were the latest rage. Today they are a commodity. In a world where just about everyone has a cellphone, how does one stand out from the crowd?
There are two ways to do it. One is to become a contrarian and refuse to own a phone. The other is to get one that is so unusual that it stands out from a sea of ordinary, run-of-the-mill phones.
Fresh phone
Apple is set to rock the mobile phone world and bets are on that Steve Jobs will unveil the beauty as early as January.
Would you buy a new mobile phone today if you knew Apple was introducing its first-ever mobile phone sometime next year, maybe as early as March?
Accidental hero
Chairman of Google Eric Schmidt may well have saved China’s mobile phone industry.
In a career that spans 26 years, Eric Schmidt has been many things. Until 2001 he was best known as the CEO of Novell, a Silicon Valley software firm. Today he is famed – and admired and feared and hated – as chairman and CEO of Google. But by the time he retires, the 53-year-old Schmidt may be known by another title – the man who saved China's mobile phone business.
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