Japanese Cell Phones Offer a Glimpse of the Future

Posted by timothy on Monday May 10, 2004 @01:48PM from the sounds-unuseful dept.

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."

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When? by DrugCheese · 2004-05-10 13:54 · Score: 0, Offtopic

When will we stop calling them cell phones and call them something else? Seems more and more the phone features aren't the main selling points.

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bark translater by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · 2004-05-10 14:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Maybe they need to install a spelling checker too.

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