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The 3G iPhone is coming. GPS manufacturers should be very, very scared.

On the XX Factor blog, Noreen Malone decries the New York Times' amazment that women want the new iPhone. Also in Slate, Tim Wu writes that we're headed for a duopoly between AT&T and Verizon.

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But wait. TomTom—Garmin's chief global competitor—has already done it. Hours after Steve Jobs unveiled the 3G iPhone, the company announced it has already created an application that essentially transforms the iPhone into a TomTom GPS—complete with the look and feel of TomTom's maps and directions. It seems Garmin has already missed its on-ramp.

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Photograph of the 3G iPhone © 2008 Apple Inc.