Joel Johnson

Freelance journalist

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Freelance technology writer, he writes about gadgets at BoingBoing.net

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Few gadgets have received as much hype as Apple's iPhone . Just introduced three months ago, people lined up for hours despite the cellphone's whopping top price of $599.

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Few gadgets have received as much hype as Apple's iPhone . Just introduced three months ago, people lined up for hours despite the cellphone's whopping top price of $599.

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