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University Tries "One iPhone Per Student"

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the enrollment-and-dropout-numbers-to-spike dept.

alphadogg writes to tell us that one freshman class has a little more than usual to be excited about. When students at Abilene Christian University showed up for their first days of class they were greeted with the choice of either a new iPhone 3g or an iPod Touch plus a package of custom web apps to use on them. "The hardware is part of the Texas university's pilot mobile learning project, which has been gestating for over a year. About 650 first-year students chose the iPhone, and about 300 the iPod Touch, which is a very similar device but without the 3G radio (both devices incorporate an 802.11g Wi-Fi adapter). ACU pays for the hardware, student (or their parents) select and pay for their monthly AT&T service plan."

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  1. Coming... by Linker3000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...to ebay in 3...2...

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    1. Re:Coming... by OrangeTide · · Score: 3, Funny

      I don't think those examples warrant the word "extremely". Perhaps you meant to say "moderately" or "slightly" or "not".

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  2. Why not give them WoW accounts too? by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    When we wanted to waste time and not study back in my day, all we had were fraternities and sororities. Kids today with their new-fangled distractions and time-wasters don't know how lucky they have it. They've got hundreds of reasons not to go to class right there at their fingertips. We had to *WORK* at it when we goofed off! We didn't even have pagers or MUD's back then!

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    1. Re:Why not give them WoW accounts too? by speroni · · Score: 5, Funny

      And beer, don't forget the beer.

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  3. thank goodness! by OrangeTide · · Score: 3, Funny

    The title made me worry that we were only allowed to have a single iPhone per person. And I thought it was just some more unnecessary University restrictions.

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  4. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 3, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion