Census carrying 'ugliest cellphone you've ever seen'

Census tech. Sitting on his porch in the Berkshires last week, Global Voices founder Ethan Zuckerman was approached by a census taker. He couldn't help fixating on the clunky hand-held device she was using for data collection, which looked like the anti-iPhone. (Full article: 711 words)

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