And unless he or she is your best friend, why go with your existing component supplier when the Net can find you a cheaper one?

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If your "friend" fits four out of five of these, then he or she is a Smartphoniac.

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It will, he suggests, soon be possible to hold a conversation in English with a friend in Tokyo who is reading your words in Japanese.

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