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Wall Street Journal Studies Us and Our Crazy Phone Usage

Posted by on February 24, 2010 at 2:01 pm

Check out the Wall Street Journal’s super in-depth reading of how much Harvard students love to use their phones…but not for calling in the article “The Unused Cellphone App: ‘Calling’” Basically we are deciding the future of technology. Go team! If you have an iPhone we also have an app, did you know that? From the article:

‘”The Unofficial Guide to Life at Harvard” had been published by the Harvard Student Agencies for since the 1970s, but students didn’t want to carry a book when they wanted to find out where to get Chinese food, Mr. Yan says.

Last year, Mr. Yan and Mr. Bick released their first version of their iPhone application. The free guidebook has been downloaded about 2,500 times. Users can read about 900 different restaurants, cafes and other businesses in Cambridge and find deals offered by local merchants.

They won a $10,000 prize from an AT&T-sponsored competition and $2,500 from a Harvard competition. The Harvard Student Agencies, a student-run, non-profit that helped sponsor the Harvard competition, continues to provide aid and funding to the Rover group. Last summer, the team added Joy Ding, Cameron Spickert and Mr. Robb to work on improving the application and new projects.’

Power to the smart-phone y’all. And us. WSJ thinks we’re pretty cool?

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