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Phones becoming digital bags of tricks
Published 1/3/2009 by
By Matt Richtel and Laura M. Holson
New York Times at Technology
The popularity of cool applications for Apple's iPhone, the leader of the transformation, is driving a fierce competition among the makers of the BlackBerry and Palm devices, and even Google and Microsoft.
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