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		lotsofcows on June 27, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Jimmy Wales Is Not an Internet Billionaire "Wales uses a cheap smartphone made by the Chinese company Huawei that a friend bought him for $85 in Nairobi." $85? Cheap? In Nairobi? Is that a typo?

beachstartup on June 27, 2013 [–]

no, see, there's this whole world out there, outside of the US.

lotsofcows on June 27, 2013 | [–]

What?

My point - as it seems I've failed to write sufficiently clearly - is that $85 seems very expensive for a "cheap" smartphone. Especially for equatorial Africa.

Also, I'm not in the US.

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