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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>We should paper the world with (something like) this rant ahead
of the wide release of Neo1973. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The fettered masses really don’t get it yet. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Covers 8 myths which drive folks to buy locked phones and/or
2yr contracts:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/features/item/Its_time_to_buy_SIM-free_phones.php">http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/features/item/Its_time_to_buy_SIM-free_phones.php</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>“</span></font>How would Apple
fans react if the latest Mac computer was exclusively locked to a particular
ISP, was only available to people who live in that ISP's service area, and
people had to sign up to a 2 year contract with that ISP? The Apple fans would
be mad as hell, so why on earth are they having to put up with exactly the same
restrictions on a portable, pocket-sized Mac computer called the iPhone?<font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>“</span></font>How is it that <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Finland</st1:country-region>, a poorer, lower-density country without
phone contracts, and with a law banning locked phones, developed far better
phone coverage than <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
the land of locked phones and 2 year contracts?<font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p><em><b><i><font size=3 color="#000066" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#000066;font-weight:bold'>Sam Kome</span></font></i></b></em><a
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