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So let me add in here that I have an iphone and I complain about it all the time. Honestly I would rather own an n900 but Nokia has since retreated from the Japanese market and there isn't an n900 anywhere in sight.

I was walking down the street wondering where this particular restaurant was and I was trying to find it using the gps and google maps but my gps signal kept bouncing around. I finally had to stop and wait for a moment before I finally got a good signal and was able to see that I needed to go one block to the south. I was about to start complaining about the gps but before I said anything I just thought about what was happening here: My phone that I was holding in one hand, was simultaneously sending a signal to OUTER SPACE and then communicating back to me with not just my current latitude and longitude but also downloading detailed maps of the area and telling me where I was in respect to my destination which I had just found on the internet WHILE WALKING DOWN THE STREET!

Dudes! We live in an amazing world with amazing technology that people a century ago could have barely dreamed of. We live in what many people would call science fiction.

Suffice it to say, we can all complain but go read some issues of Popular Mechanics from the 1950's and then complain about your cell phone.
 

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