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Tired of fumbling around the iPhone's onscreen keyboard to send a text message? Soon you can skip that altogether, as long as you can speak English properly.

Those with serious food allergies know that ordering meals in a foreign country where you don't speak the language can be a dicey and potentially deadly ordeal.

Joe Hummrich, the brains behind 10th Wonder, the No. 1 fan podcast of the TV show "Heroes" (heroespodcast.com), admits he was impressed when he saved money on a microphone purchase by downloading the Yowza iPhone application.

Yahoo on Thursday announced that it has upgraded its iPhone app to include voice search, which lets users conduct a oneSearch query simply by "pressing and speaking" into the handset.

While only 18% of all iPhone apps downloaded are paid, the current annual sales of $340+ million cannot be ovelooked. Moreover, Yankee Group's estimate of that number rising to $1B in just two years speaks volumes about the ways our world is changing. The presence of smart phones will grow four fold in as many years to numbers that will have everyone connected wirelessly with each other and to every content source around the world in real time.

Hmm, the Yubz solid gold phone or the gold-wrapped the iPhone 3G with diamonds? Tough choices both. Fortunately, chump change is what I don't have.