By Natasha Lomas
Published: Friday 10 July 2009
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Anonymous Poster
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USA
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Hating Verizon
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I am very glad that Google is getting involved in the mobile phone market. These cell phone companies are working with archaic business models that need a good thrashing.
Google SMS, for example, is an already-existing cell phone service where you can text questions to a Google server. You can ask for directions, phone numbers, even odd questions like "What's the population of Japan?". All for free.
In the meantime cell phone companies want to charge you $2-3 for a crappy sub-100 kbps MP3 ringtone, while iTunes charges you only 99 cents for the WHOLE SONG, in a LOSSLESS AUDIO FORMAT!
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