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Cell Phone as e-Book Reader (in Japan)

Posted by timothy on from the doubles-as-a-vision-test dept.

aussie_a writes "Reading books on your cell phone has become the latest feature in Japan. With games, e-mails and the news already standard features, the Japanese cell-phone is more then just a phone. Novels are downloaded in segments and are run as Java-based applications on the phone. But users can do much more then just read the book, they are able to search for books, write reviews and send fan mail to the authors."

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  1. Eats, shoots, and leaves? by AtariAmarok · · Score: 2, Funny
    "the Japanese cell-phone is more then just a phone" -- should be than"

    Or: "The Japanese cell phone is more! Then: just a phone"

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  2. Old News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Story dated March 18. They're using Tamagotchi now.

  3. Going blind... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    You are on screen 3 of 1,490,548,734 of the Great Gatsby.

    *previous page* *next page*

  4. Forgot a use by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: 2, Funny

    Phones also make poor anal sextoys.

    http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_207728.html?m enu=news.quirkies

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    1. Re:Forgot a use by FidelCatsro · · Score: 2, Funny

      Brings a new meaning to the phrase talking out your arse

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  5. I, for one. by AtariAmarok · · Score: 2, Funny
    I for one, look foward to reading Tolkien in this kind of format:

    "In a ho"
    le in the gr
    (then I thumb the arrow button)
    ound lived a "
    hobbit.

    I figure my thumb will implode by the time the poor dwarves get taunted at Rivendell.

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  6. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Cellphone Edition: by game+kid · · Score: 2, Funny
    One file to hold them all, one phone to deploy them,

    One number to buy them all and in your commute enjoy them.
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  7. Re:Two words by KajiCo · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's one word and a number.