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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."

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  1. hrmnn by paraphase · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...even so....it can't squirt mild sauce on my chalupa...

  2. Seventh Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    w00t motha fuckas!

  3. When? by DrugCheese · · 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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  4. bark translater by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Maybe they need to install a spelling checker too.

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  5. Re:Hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I from Korea, and want dog translator. Then easy get food.

  6. Re:"Dog bark translator"....?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Right now my dog is rending a $500 couch cushion by holding it in its jaws and shaking it back and forth violently while growling. It has the runs, so it is spraying liquidy-wet shit all over the recently-recarpeted living room, and it is surrounded by the trash it dragged down the entry hall from the kitchen, and each paw is standing in a fresh, fragrant cold puddle of dog piss.

    Oh, and both of its ears are perked up. Suppose the phone would help?