On a private mailing list for publishers, Peter Brantley pointed to Booksquare’s open letter to publishers, wondering why the heck they aren’t at SXSW in Austin? He quoted extensively from the open letter:

“South by Southwest, the interactive festival, is in full swing. […] Nay, many of the attendees at this year’s festival are already riding that wave that we call The Future.

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While not widely acknowledged, introduction of Apple iPhone seems to have sent a shockwave throughout cellphone industry and left major vendors scrambling to produce their own answer to it.

Only LG seems to have had something at least a little bit similar to iPhone with their LG Prada KE850 phone. Other vendors were left churning out the concept phones on YouTube.

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