Supposing They Don't Call It The Crackberry For Nothin'

Sorry if this is a little wee bit moldy, but it's still an interesting piece of news:

A BlackBerry device can turn users into distracted, anti-social obsessives who could put the safety of others or themselves at risk, a research study from Ryerson University warns.
Conducted by the Toronto-based organization's School of Information Technology Management, the study is based on in-depth interviews with users who admitted to using their BlackBerries while walking, riding bicycles or driving. They also confessed to checking messages while in meetings or public settings. Some use it as an alarm clock, reading e-mail the moment they wake up, and on weekends or outside of office hours.

Ok, let's back that up and replay a part of that again:

People are using their Blackberries while riding their bicycles.

Kripes. That's scary.

I suppose a great thing about the Apple iPhone, then, is that it is going to be so flipping expensive at, what? $500 or $600-ish a pop, people won't dare to do that kind of thing once that little gadget hits the market this June?

Yay, iPhone!

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