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Multi-purpose Assistive Technology Device - Does Apple iPhone make the grade?

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June 4th is a very important date to me, no, it's not because it was on that day of 1989, the Chinese government ordered a general crackdown on Tianmen square students, but it was on June 4th, 2010, when I obtained my iPhone 3GS which fundamentally changed my life. The first device to be banished was my much beloved iPod Touch (which I gave to my sister), second device I retired as the result of the iPhone was my 7 years old Fuji Digital camera, which I probably chucked it under the bed somewhere, the third was my Citizen Eco Drive Watch, which I gave to my dad. It is becoming fairly apparent, that the mighty Apple iPhone was designed to be an Omni-purpose all encompassing PDA, those who claim apple iPhone 4G is inferior to HTC Droid because it comes with a 5 Megapixel as opposed to 8 Megapixel have completely missed the point. The attraction of the apple iPhone lies with the tens of thousand third party applications for us technophiles to swim in, those third party applic