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Japanese Cell Phones Offer a Glimpse of the Future
Dynamoo writes "Vodafone K.K. have announced a new range of phones, available exclusively in Japan which easily beat everything else in terms of features. In particular, two phones from Sharp, the V402SH and V602SH between them boast a TV tuner, camera with optical zoom, virtual karaoke machine and dog bark translater (woof woof), according to this review. Perhaps some features are more useful than others, but with a bit of luck we'll see these features in worldwide mobiles sometime in 2005. In the meantime I guess I'll just have to learn to speak dog by myself."
I need a klingon translator. That would be better.
Never Smoke A Banana.
Is this for blind people?
Japanese dogs don't go "woof-woof" they go "wan-wan".
And cats go "nya-nya"
Just thought I'd clear that up before you rushed out to buy one for your non-japanese pets.
Cool!
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Man, my dog talks like a sailor. He's all "get me some fucking dogfood, goddamnit" this and "you best be taking me for walk, shithead" that.
I definately agree with you on that. There's no need for all these extra features on a cell phone. Take the camera for instance: you would be better off with a small portable digital camera, unless you're going to a strip club, and they won't let you take a camera inside. They'd never take away your cell phone.
Another useful (offtopic) thing about strip clubs: give the girls $2 bills; it's dark and they'll mistake them for $20's.
I'm probably at the karma cap. Mod up a funny troll instead, it lightens the mood
"I'll buy that one. Keep the dog translator, thanks. "
I hope you don't consider yourself a geek.
"Derp de derp."
No builtin fork and cheese grater???
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
(( Yes, this was a poor attempt at humour. ))
Sin
Merf
Well several alternatives have been proposed, such as:
Cellular Relaying Antenna Point (CRAP)
and
Aggregate Nesting Node of Outrageous Yuppies and Ignorant Goofballs (ANNOYING)
and
Standardized TDMA Focusing Umbrella (STFU)
However, all these names were rejected by focus groups. The first two were classified as vaguely insulting (although the respondents could not quite say why). The respondents also said that STFU made them feel like they had made a stupid post on slashdot (kind of like this one....)
Please note that I am (obviously) not a professional creator of acronyms.
Just like driving a car:
(D) to go forward
(R) to go backward
1. How about a phone that doesn't drop calls? 2. Maybe eliminating dropped calls. 3. I'd also like a phone that doesn't $@%#$&* drop calls!!!!!!!!! Um, the battery thing too.
Yeah, I guess I'm funny like that.
The future is mobile porn where you can get a glimpse of Gina and her friends.
And now we need our phone to tell us what the current conditions are? Considering that you generally would have your cell phone outside, why can't you just, oh, look up??? If you really need it, have a temperature sensor inside the phone so the cell network isn't flooded with weather data. (Idea! Better patent it!)
*Bark, Bark, Bark!*
Translator: Send money to sharp. Pleaseeee?
I would give ANYTHING to hack a series of those ala Barbie Liberation Front style. Change the "dog-bark" translator so it returns all kinds of EVIL and RUDE translations, like "Im going to eat your throat out in your sleep" and "Hah I pissed in you shoes" etc etc.
Way back when in early 95 my dad was running Win95 beta or RC , I gained remote access, installed and shared a folder that I then uploaded all kinds of 2001 a space odyssey WAV's to his system and replaced the default sounds. My Dads name was Dave, so it was friggin perfect, instead of the shutdown sound it would go into the "Dave, What are you doing Dave" sequence and so on, about 10 sounds in all.
ANYONE stupid enough to USE a dog bark translator deserves anything I can make it say.
Cell Phone. Cellular Telephone. Cellular PDA-Gaming Platform-Calendar-Planner-Universal Remote-Translator-Dictionary-Infrared Scanner-Laser Pointer-RC Probe-Camera-Swiss Pocket Knife-Movie Projector-Telephone? I sure hope I didn't forget anything.
Yeah, those guys already love the "walkie-talkie" feature. Actual overheard conversation:
*be-deet*
"Where are you?"
*be-deet*
"Taking a shit."
*be-deet*
"Wanna see a movie?"
*be-deet*
"Okay, when?"
*be-deet*
"Five-thirty."
I swear, video conferencing will take off when they put it on a cellphone with a built-in wall projector. And people in restaurants will use it to talk to people who are taking a shit.
-- . . ramblin' . . .
Woof Woof!
What's that Lassie?
Woof!
Hold on girl let me take out my cell phone!
I browse Slashdot at +3, Funny
if I want something that just goes bring bring hello, I could just carry a Soviet brick around with me
In Soviet Russia, the bricks carry you. And they go hello hello bring.