In honor of the new iPhone and its FaceTime video chat feature, I present Technologizer’s history of video calls. (Via PC World)

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I don’t have an iPhone. I’m sure I’ll get one at some point, but I want to get a vintage one.  I am convinced that old iPhones are going to one day have all the appeal of vintage Cadillac, so I figure I should start collecting early. iPhone ‘07 in the house! Using one will be a nod to nostalgia not unlike using a laptop case printed with a picture of a typewriter.  When your current one to starts looking old and clunky, it can come live in the retirement home better known as my purse.  

Unfortunately, the wait has been a long one. Each generation of iPhone has looked a lot like the previous one. In fact, it’s been hard to even picture how this sleek device could be made to look any more iPhone-y. Haven’t we already whittled it down little more than pure essence?  Nope. Yesterday, my husband and the rest of the Gizmodo team world did me a solid: they introduced the world to the new iPhone4. 3GS? Obsolete! 

This Is Apple’s Next iPhone - Iphone 4 - Gizmodo

Inventor of Cellphones Says They’ve Become Too Complicated - Martin cooper cell phones via Gizmodo

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I don’t have an iPhone, but if I did, I’d definitely want it to look like something that I could buy at a yard sale for $1.