Iphone Mania! ; It's the Zeitgeist Gadget: The Mobile Phone with 85,000 Functions, From Checking Train Times to Comparing Shop Prices. And, Oh Yes, It'll Even Play You at Scrabble. But Does Any Sane Person Need Such Information Overload? [Edition 2]

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EVERYWHERE you go these days, you see them: distracted looking people staring into hand-sized oblongs of glass and stabbing at them with their fingers.

These gadgets look almost like religious icons. And, in a way, they are. They are mobile phones -- but not the ones we once used merely for calling people. The Apple iPhone, launched in Britain only two years ago, does far, far more than just that.

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Iphone Mania! ; It's the Zeitgeist Gadget: The Mobile Phone with 85,000 Functions, From Checking Train Times to Comparing Shop Prices. And, Oh Yes, It'll Even Play You at Scrabble. But Does Any Sane Person Need Such Information Overload? [Edition 2]

Indeed, thanks to the iPhone's revolutionary 'Apps' -- applications -- which users download from the internet for, mostly, a few pence to a pound or two, an iPhone can be converted into 85,000 different devices -- some useful, some entertaining, and some downright bizar...

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