I've seen enough smart phone zombies squashed and irritable birds chucked to last me awhile.  I carry a less-than-smart phone with its week-long battery life and lightening fast text messaging.  Sure, each received e-mail message appears on my handset like some kind of lesser miracle.  Like tuning in the local radio station using duct tape and a cinderblock.

But curiosity finally got the better of me, especially because a similar family of questions kept coming up at the engineering meetings I...
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