OT via Medaura’s estimable husband: “If US government contractors had designed the iPhone.”
This thing is for real. As I commented to Michael, it looks like something sketched by Castro on a bad beard day. The Trabant of handheld devices.
And guess what? It’s not even going to be used for the real census as was originally intended - just for verifying addresses and other preliminary work.
There are 525,000 of them, at a cost of $1,142 each. Total $600 million. Commissioned under George W. Bush. Pork for somebody’s best friend’s favorite lobbyist’s client.
With a phone jack, for God’s sake.