One you let developers hack around with NFC and give them permission to play with these new toys, amazing things can happen.

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Seriously, please Palm, what we need is for you to improve the Treo -- or whatever phone device you expect us to carry and use -- not design the Treo its very own Lenny Small to hack around sluggish handset design.

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That's a lot of scratch for a 13-year-old who just wants to hack the ball around with his friends.

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