This is news to us, but apparently there have been “few noteworthy advancements” in smartphone hardware since the iPhone and BlackBerry came out. Out to fix this stale, plateaued industry is Innpu, with its revolutionarily new “wired phone” (it’s bad news when even the manufacturer puts the product name in quotation marks, right?). Setting the new high watermark in cellphone engineering, it comes with built-in headphones and mic, which retract automatically when you complete your call. And hey, we’ve seen earphones like that selling by themselves for $2, maybe $4 a pop — luxurious stuff. Lest you think Innpu unambitious, the company’s also promising to bring this life-saving functionality to the iPad and netbooks, while noting that its sophisticated technology “can hardly be copied.” Probably because no one will ever care to try.
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