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New Prototypes, Gadgets And Devices From CEATE
Nooper writes: "This years CEATEC 2001 features a bunch of new wireless gadgets accompanying DoCoMo's 3G (FOMA) launch." Check out the cute pictures -- in their "Showcase of Japanese Keitai (mobile phone) Culture you can find 72 free to use photos from this years CEATEC. We even made a special gallery with the integrated camera of our new FOMA phone." Phones in the U.S. look like such monsters in comparison.
I think their website is running off one of those things...2 replies and slashdotted already.
You know you're probably getting blank stares right now because I imagine a lot of the Slashdot `community' is the calculator watch crowd. Honestly I find calculator watches absolutely hilarious.
"The fingers you have used to dial are too fat. To obtain a special dialing wand, please mash the keypad with your palm now."
(Goodbye, karma)
Tom.
Oh arse
This is certainly a truism. European cell phones are typically about the size of a loaf of bread and weigh around 9 pounds. This is because the English government can afford only two cell towers, one is in a swamp in Wales and the other was destroyed in a soccer riot.
Cunning linguists
A phone that I can say this to:
PHONE
!ready!
Email Dave
!send email to dave!
Hey Dave - meet in Prince of Wales at 7 OK!
SEND
!email sent - I love you!
and the phone emails dave! and the email goes to his phone or voice or whetever he has set up. I could use that SO often!
One of the funniest things in an airport was some ignorant woman with one of the small cellphones, who kept using it like a walkie talkie. She'd hold it up to hear ear to listen, and then hold it in front of her face to talk, and back again. I had to try hard not to laugh out loud, since she looked like she could have thrown me to my destination airport :)
-Cheetah