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FYA: python cell phone is ruby-less

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vertu makes a $310,000US cell phone which has rubies on it. i thought
it was quite interesting that they have a "cheaper" phone ($115,000)
called Python which *doesn't* have rubies:

http://money.cnn.com/popups/2006/biz2/cellphone

better order yours now since only 26 will be made. ;-)

happy holidays everyone!
-- wesley
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