The annual International Consumer Electronics Show is ramping up for January, but it's possible that we won't be seeing many mobile announcements this year in Las Vegas. Taking a tip from Apple's dramatic "iVents," major tech companies now save the mobile goods for their own individual launch spectaculars, leaving us all a little weepy for cellphones and the way things used to be.
Alas, even when phones were dumb, we loved them anyway.
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