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从不使用的手机功能：电话 哈佛四年级学生罗勃正与同学们规划他们开发的“漫游者”iPhone应用程序的未来 　　哈佛大学(Harvard University)四年级学生罗勃(Drew Robb)非常喜欢他的苹果iPhone手机，晚上把它放在床边，白天放在牛仔裤前面的口袋里，用它查邮件、给朋友发短信、玩游戏以及几乎所有的事除了打电话。　　Cambridge, Mass. -- Harvard University senior Drew Robb is so attached to his cellphone that he keeps it by his bedside at night and in his front jeans pocket every day. He uses the Apple iPhone to check email, text his friends and play games, pretty much for everything -- except phone calls. 　　罗勃今年22岁，来自檀香山，主修物理和数学。他说，打电话真的会使人变慢。　　Calling really slows you down, says the 22-year-old physics and math major from Honolulu. 　　罗勃和他的朋友使用电话的方式折射出消费类技术的发展方向。他们的电话被不停地用于他们的社交生活，以及用于他们为哈佛大学所在地剑桥设计手机旅行指南的团队项目。他们的故事也反映出科技变化的速度有多快：当罗勃的朋友温斯顿(Winston Yan) 2006年刚进大学的时候，他用的手机还不能收发邮件。温斯顿今年21岁，来自弗吉尼亚，主修物理。　　The way Mr. Robb and his friends use their phones offers a glimpse of where consumer technology is heading. Their phones are used non-stop for their social lives and their group project to design a mobile guidebook to Cambridge. The friends also show how quickly change is happening: When Mr. Robbs friend Winston Yan, a 21-year-old physics major from Alexandria, Va., arrived as a freshman in 2006, he had a phone that couldnt send or receive email. 　　在哈佛大学教授入门课“计算机科学50”的教师马伦(David Malan)说，对智能手机的兴趣吸引了大批学生进入计算机科学的课堂。在期末项目方面，马伦给他的学生提供了多种选择，包括编写传统计算机软件和网络化应用程序。许多学生选择编写手机应用程序。归功于应用程序接口（API）的广泛使用，编写网络或移动应用程序对学生而言变得更加容易。API帮助开发者分享数据和内容。并且自从扎克伯格(Mark Zuckerberg)在它哈佛大学的宿舍里创办了Facebook以来，计算机科学和与其有关的梦想便开始在这里成长。这一切帮助学校改善了自网络泡沫破灭之后一直下降的注册情况。目前修读这个要上一个学期的计算机科学导论课共有337名学生，而2007年有283名学生，2006年仅有132名。　　Interest in smart phones has attracted a new universe of students to computer science classes, says David Malan, a computer science lecturer who teaches Computer Science 50, the introductory class at Harvard. Mr. Malan gave his students a number of options they could focus on for their final projects, including writing traditional computer software and Web-based applications. Many chose to make cellphone apps. It has become easier