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Green with Envy this Christmas

If you are wishing for and/or giving an iPhone this holiday season, Elizabeth Woyke has a look at what others outside of the US are experiencing in terms of "smart phone" handsets.

While the iPhone has quickly jumped to the top of the handset market in the US, others around the world are experiencing a better experience because of the constraints the US carriers place on functionality. Nokia and Google are betting that the consumer will demand better and better "open" handsets. I'm guessing that the current established wireless carriers will continue to open their "walled gardens" just enough to keep the US consumer in two year contracts.

Here's to open content and really cool, but un-subsidized handsets under the tree for the 2008 holiday season.

Happy Christmas! Belated Hanukkah! Merry Kwanzaa! And/or non-denominational "holiday" of choice!

NOTE - I really missed Eid and Ramadan.... VERY Belated wishes for those holidays as well.

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