This morning a few tech blogs are highlighting some choice quotes from a Melinda Gates interview that appears in the most recent issue of Vogue. According to the Vogue piece, the couple has forbidden their three children from using iPods and iPhones and has made their home a no iPod/iPhone zone (no word on other Apple products).

The article’s mainly about the Gates Foundation and how it’s trying to solve “hunger in the world.” We certainly appreciate that, but we’ll stick with the inane superficial stuff here, thank you very much.

“There are very few things that are on the banned list in our household,” Gates tells Vogue. “But iPods and iPhones are two things we don’t get for our kids.” The article goes on to add that “Gates acknowledges the inevitable lure of forbidden fruit” and that, “Every now and then I look at my friends and say, ‘Ooh, I wouldn’t mind having that iPhone.’”

Of course, if we were doing the interview, the obvious next question would be, “Just what cell phones do you and Bill use?”

With a big alliance in place with LG for Windows Mobile phones, I’m betting they go with something like LG’s upcoming LG-GM730. It certainly looks like an iPhone. On the outside anyway.

Anybody else want to guess?

[Thanks: http://news.cnet.com]