Instrumentation

I discovered today that, through the very good technology house Expansys, an unlocked iPhone 3GS costs pretty much a thousand pounds per unit.

Which is a bit strong for something that only learned how to do MMS five minutes ago. But.

A thousand pounds per unit actually forces you to recontextualise the iPhone a bit. That's not a mainstream consumer street device anymore. That's a digital instrument. That is something very different from a mobile phone. That's something you don't dare carry aroun