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Author Topic: New cheap cell phone: Subsidized Googlephone whispers targeted ads  (Read 9,446 times)

mouser

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Here's a few of our future and our steady march towards free products sponsored by advertisements:


http://www.theonion.com/video/new-google-phone-service-whispers-targeted-ads-dir,17470/


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sgtevmckay

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I would kill that phone in under 7 seconds  :'(

The price is wrong Bob!!!

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Don't put ideas into their heads, LOL!
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I'd kill the owner of such a phone if it ever rang me. Excellent vid as always from The Onion :D
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I love the Y! Phone.

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I wonder how long it would be before people just started hanging up on people that are too cheap to spend the dime to make a phone call. I would. Ad? Ooops. We got disconnec...
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I would have that phone destroyed for murdering that guy's wife!
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