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Can you hear the rumble in the distance?  The rush of fresh, exciting and new phone design is headed this way.

I was thinking to myself this morning that the iPhone, even it if has only 40 minutes of runtime, will do two things: 1. bring lots of copy cat touchscreens to market and 2. point out consumers are willing to pay for a product that is easy to use.

Here is an example of #1.  This beauty from Korea is produced by Jaty Electronics Co and has GPS for driving, marine, aviation and yes, golf.  It sports a 3.2-inch LCD, touch panel and mini-SD card slot as well as a USB connection.  It can play mp3s as well.

But it maybe an example of #2 easy to use.  It has some nice features, like finding your friends via GPS (saving you from making statements like, “ok, wave your hands around so I can find you") and like a handy the golf course layout feature and finally, how can you not love those crazy icons?

Expect to pay $589 (if you live in Korea).

I for one am looking forward to phones that have something different besides 12 keys or a mini-qwerty.

(Am I mistaken that Jayt got the same hand model from the iPhone ad?)

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