Japan Pins Tourism Hopes on PDA

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 30, 2004 @01:00AM from the great-idea dept.

Sammy at Palm Addict writes "According to Australia News.com, Japan will start lending PDA's to foreign visitors to help tourists get to grips with the country. The aim is to make Japan more attractive to foreign tourists, who are often put off by the country's language barrier. The PDA's will be loaded with travel information and translation services as part of a tourism promotion scheme. "Japan's tourism authority will lend the PDAs containing Chinese, Korean and English software, to selected tourists who land at Narita Airport near Tokyo from February through March to test the response" Japan's transport ministry said."

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Gotta be asked by 1u3hr · 2004-12-30 01:22 · Score: 0, Redundant

Does it run Linux?
And thank God: "PDAs containing Chinese, Korean and English software", so old Koreans will be able to send email to their Soviet Russian friends. And if they're in a tour group, they could form a Beowulf Cluster.