in reading this it really shows that the smart phone has replaced the old flip phone the total number of phones are growing . My grandson at his middle school is not cool if you do not have an iphone even it is a 3g . it use to be the shoes , or the jacket. Terrie http://www.tuaw.com/2012/10/17/research-over-one-billion-smartphones-in-use/ VICUG-L is the Visually Impaired Computer User Group List. Archived on the World Wide Web at http://listserv.icors.org/archives/vicug-l.html Signoff: [log in to unmask] Subscribe: [log in to unmask]