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Letter: Price points

Published 9 November 2011

From Keith Steer

Jeff Hecht correctly says the $4000 cellphone used by Gordon Gekko dates the movie Wall Street – it now looks so unwieldy (15 October, p 39). I am curious to know how much the entire truckload of components you list for a “1980s iPhone” would have cost.

Plymouth, Devon, UK

Issue no. 2838 published 12 November 2011

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