The case of a missing iPhone

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Aug 20, 20081 min

Tom Yager obtained an iPhone but didn’t envision it actually replacing his BlackBerry — until he got pick-pocketed, that is. In the process he learned that having your iPhone stolen is no reason to halt that migration away from a BlackBerry.

“No one mobile device does everything you’d like it to, but I can tell you what makes me miss iPhone 3G,” he writes. In memory of an iPhone 3G. “I could forward all of my e-mail, attachments included, and instead of making myself crazy tuning filters to block it, I’d just let memory-wasting spam slip through.”