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Third-party hardware support. Apple is extending the iPhone platform to hardware makers so that they can attach all manner of things - from glucose and heart monitors to GPS mounts that plug your phone into your car's stereo...
...budget, on the other hand, is endowment-dependent. Spaepen, who declined to be interviewed for this article, is still taking things one step at a time. “I should not make any comment until I become director,” he said on the phone. “Let me just withhold my comments until I get there, OK? Bye.” —Staff writer Bonnie J. Kavoussi can be reached at kavoussi@fas.harvard.edu...
Whether it's a phone call for advice on the wine to go with your seafood brunch, on how to source that hard-to-find JJ Prüm 2005 Gold Kap, or how to transport wine safely (microchips embedded in the crates to regulate and monitor temperature, and track location, will help), Sarment's sommeliers provide round-the-clock service. They also spend eight weeks a year on the road to find new wines and forge relationships with reclusive Bordeaux winemakers...
Mashing up all those feeds in one place could be confusing. But the Pre handles it intelligently via something it calls Universal Search. The Pre is a slide phone - a touchscreen on its face gives way to a keyboard below. Simply start typing, and WebOS pulls up a pane that searches your contacts and also gives you the option to search via Google, Wikipedia or Twitter. You can type, "How fast does a zebra run," hit a Google button and get the answer. Pretty sweet...
Finally, the user interface is especially cool and does something I've never before seen on a smart phone: it can run a dozen applications simultaneously. Each app is represented by a virtual card after it launches; switching between programs is as easy as leafing through the cards. To close an app, you simply flick it away...