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I live in China- there are still zinc-carbon batteries being used here (I think, that's what I was told those cheap $.50 for 2 batteries were) that don't provide enough current to power modern devices for longer than half an hour. Also, sometimes those are the only batteries available if I'm in a more rural area, so I have to stock up on batteries in the city before I leave to go traveling.
1- look at Samsung/LG. 5MP camera in a cellphone. Crap? I think not.
2- MP3 player on my phone works great(Toshiba V904T)- playlists, equalizer, virtual surround, miniSD expansion, don't need more than that.
3- I can fold back the screen on my phone, then it doesn't look like a cell phone at a passing glance. Even if they find out, most of the flights I've been on have flight attendants that understand what offline mode is on a cell phone (of course, I'm probably lucky).
"for the vast majority of customers, region locking will have no effect whatsoever" - I'd count China as pretty vast. Region locking has an effect on this market- it's always been near-impossible to find game consoles with China as a native market. People buy either Japanese or American consoles here and mod them to accept games from all regions since they're locked (or to play pirated games- when you've paid that much for a console you don't really have any money to buy legit games at $50-60 because it's China; just because a couple of tourists and rich locals can afford to buy games legit doesn't mean that all of the locals can, maybe some). Oh well- it's China- modchips remedy this problem fairly quickly.
Not all of those "knock-offs" are actually fake. One method I heard about people using is that the factory makes each shipment of product a little bigger than usual. That "extra" product is instead removed and sold locally at really cheap prices. It's apparently not that widespread (this has never happened to iPods) but it has happened to shoes and clothing.
If it does, it will be coming under the iQue name, like the DS and GBA. However, there will most likely be plenty of (unofficial) stores selling Japanese and American Wiis (like with the DS, GBA, and GameCube). If you live in China then it wouldn't be too hard to find someone that does modchips to mod the Wii to remove region coding.
Well of course they do- where do your iPods and stuff come from? China, most likely. They could threaten to cut off that manufacturing and America's cheap stuff all goes away (not that it's a bad thing- Wal-Mart would go away too).
Actually, out of all of those, the only one I consider a must-have is Ouendan (Japanese version of Elite Beat Agents). I tried all of the others- too... grossed out by Trauma Center (yes, I'm kind of sensitive), Kirby doesn't seem right with the pen, not into Nintendogs- not that I see myself as fit to raise a real dog (I tried something like it that's far more cartoony where you are supposed to play minigames to get stuff for the dogs'(more than one) home-only in Japanese though and the name I can't recall off the top of my head). New SMB feels too... boring and average for me. Brain Age is a maybe, but I'm not really into that kind of thing (maybe when I get older). Ouendan is the kind of thing I like (I like music-based games in general). Of course, my tastes probably vary from yours- another title I consider to be one of the reasons I got a DS was Cooking Mama (yes, says a lot about me, I know) and some sort of cookbook for the DS, as well as a Japanese and Korean dictionary.
How did the media companies bring the DMCA into being? By CRYING TO CONGRESS, so why can't average people do the same?? Delicate psyche my arse, what about the media companies!
Off-topic, but my cell phone had that "you've got mail" as the default ringtone for text messages (in the same voice too- I compared it to the AOL sound)
Isn't that voltage normal (I live in China, but it's apparently used almost world-wide)? And even if you are in America, aren't computer power supplies supposed to automatically switch voltage? Mine says 100-240V auto-switching on the back. Also, your PORTABLE CD player? Don't portable electronics have universal (100-240V) AC adapters anyway?
All I can say is that California is all 1900- for everyhwere else, the general rule is that "middle of nowhere" areas are covered by 850 while urman areas are covered by 1900.
Expensive? Oh right, you want BOTH North American bands. That's what's keeping your cost up- if you can get by with only 1900MHz, it'll be much cheaper for you (I can find the V801SH- the Japanese version of the Sharp TM150- for less than $70 here in China if I look on eBay (Chinese site only), and about $110 if I were to go to a store.
CDMA card? Does this card look like a SIM card? If so, then I thought that only China did that. It would make it possible to buy the Korean LG Chocolate from China which comes MP3-capable and put in the CDMA card to start using the phone.
Not here in China. China is a free market- there are still carrier subsidies for service plans, but the phones are sold unlocked (not sure how that works, but it sure is a great thing). There is also an open market for cell phones so that you can pick the one that suits you best without having to buy directly from the carrier (but subsidies don't apply unless you do) unless you're in CDMA. You can still load MP3s just like a normal MP3 player and features are hardly locked down at all, but one carrier has a monopoly on CDMA. This may be because neither carrier has network speeds fast enough to try to sell music through, though. Also, something I wish that carriers in the US would implement is escalating subsidies- buy a pricier service plan, get a bigger discount on the phone (taking note that all local cell phones are sold unlocked). The problem with this is that you are locked to a service plan- you have to pay a fee to change your service plan before your contract is up (2 years everywhere- no 1-year contracts).
I heard on the local news (in China) that large amounts of pesticide or some other poisonous chemical were found in Coke and Pepsi in India and China- maybe that has something to do with this ban?
Same with me, except a different sort of freedom. When I saw the iTunes Music store launch in Japan I expected to be able to buy music from it. Instead I have to get a Japanese credit card to do so. I want to be able to buy music across borders!
I thought Verizon would (with a little or a lot of trickery)- How else do people get imported Korean phones on Verizon (5-megapixel cameraphones are the phones of my dreams).
How about a dual-mode phone? Unlock the GSM portion and you can have GSM service with CDMA as backup when needed. At least, that's how it works in China (service plans are cheap here too- one number between CDMA and GSM for the phone, and you get about 400 minutes for $20, last I checked)
If this is what I think it is, then someone spilled all the details to Engadget (try searching their website- it was a while back). If it's another test, then I'm sorry for being mistaken. Also- open up a little more- look at that Engadget post. It said far more than you did, and nothing happened to that person.
This is a serious question, because this post has given me possible insight on something I was thinking about- Is this the reason that 3G is so slow to take off, and that the Japanese manufacturers (Toshiba, Sharp, Sanyo, Panasonic, etc) are not putting their best efforts (like their Japanese domestic-market phones) into the American wireless market or (like Sharp) simply not participating at all (This could also be applied to Motorola- look at the differences between their Korean products and their US products)? Because the big carriers are holding everyhing back? I think that Helio will be a big help in breaking this barrier to catching up to the world.
I have said this before, but Sony equipment is not "piles of junk" unless it's made in the US (personal experience). After having a lot of Sony's US-made laptops fail on me, I always buy in Japan- the laptops are made in Japan and are more durable. My VAIO PCG-TR5EB that I bought in Japan (it's made in Japan, too) has survived water spills into the keyboard, while a PCG-V505 (made in the US) has died due to condensation on the OUTSIDE of the laptop. Also, Sony Japan's warranty covers accidental damage, which is a HUGE plus for someone as clumsy as me- this is the kind of the warranty that their US counterpart needs to provide before they will get my business again.
Where is your laptop made? I have a VAIO (Model number PCG-TR5EB) that I've been using since June 2004 that has survived a couple of water spills into the keyboard. Its only current fault is that the left mouse button on the trackpad is a bit... sticky. It's made in Japan. I have another (PCG-V505) that died (won't charge or boot) after a little bit of condensation on the outside of the case while it was off. That one was made in the US. I checked the labels on both. I always buy Sony- but only in Japan. Their "export" models (American-made laptops) have always been more problematic for me than their "domestic" models (Japan-made laptops). Now, maybe you have some evidence to prove that their problems are across the board. But at least their warranty is better in Japan. It covers water, fire, and impact damage (basically, most forms of accidental damage). Their US warranty does not. Sure I have to get used to the Japanese interface, but it brings me better peace of mind knowing that the laptop will work for a long time.
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I live in China- there are still zinc-carbon batteries being used here (I think, that's what I was told those cheap $.50 for 2 batteries were) that don't provide enough current to power modern devices for longer than half an hour. Also, sometimes those are the only batteries available if I'm in a more rural area, so I have to stock up on batteries in the city before I leave to go traveling.
2- MP3 player on my phone works great(Toshiba V904T)- playlists, equalizer, virtual surround, miniSD expansion, don't need more than that.
3- I can fold back the screen on my phone, then it doesn't look like a cell phone at a passing glance. Even if they find out, most of the flights I've been on have flight attendants that understand what offline mode is on a cell phone (of course, I'm probably lucky).
It has? I don't mean those things that resemble the iPod shuffle, I mean the real thing down to the last detail.
"for the vast majority of customers, region locking will have no effect whatsoever" - I'd count China as pretty vast. Region locking has an effect on this market- it's always been near-impossible to find game consoles with China as a native market. People buy either Japanese or American consoles here and mod them to accept games from all regions since they're locked (or to play pirated games- when you've paid that much for a console you don't really have any money to buy legit games at $50-60 because it's China; just because a couple of tourists and rich locals can afford to buy games legit doesn't mean that all of the locals can, maybe some). Oh well- it's China- modchips remedy this problem fairly quickly.
Not all of those "knock-offs" are actually fake. One method I heard about people using is that the factory makes each shipment of product a little bigger than usual. That "extra" product is instead removed and sold locally at really cheap prices. It's apparently not that widespread (this has never happened to iPods) but it has happened to shoes and clothing.
If it does, it will be coming under the iQue name, like the DS and GBA. However, there will most likely be plenty of (unofficial) stores selling Japanese and American Wiis (like with the DS, GBA, and GameCube). If you live in China then it wouldn't be too hard to find someone that does modchips to mod the Wii to remove region coding.
Well of course they do- where do your iPods and stuff come from? China, most likely. They could threaten to cut off that manufacturing and America's cheap stuff all goes away (not that it's a bad thing- Wal-Mart would go away too).
Actually, out of all of those, the only one I consider a must-have is Ouendan (Japanese version of Elite Beat Agents). I tried all of the others- too... grossed out by Trauma Center (yes, I'm kind of sensitive), Kirby doesn't seem right with the pen, not into Nintendogs- not that I see myself as fit to raise a real dog (I tried something like it that's far more cartoony where you are supposed to play minigames to get stuff for the dogs'(more than one) home-only in Japanese though and the name I can't recall off the top of my head). New SMB feels too... boring and average for me. Brain Age is a maybe, but I'm not really into that kind of thing (maybe when I get older). Ouendan is the kind of thing I like (I like music-based games in general). Of course, my tastes probably vary from yours- another title I consider to be one of the reasons I got a DS was Cooking Mama (yes, says a lot about me, I know) and some sort of cookbook for the DS, as well as a Japanese and Korean dictionary.
How did the media companies bring the DMCA into being? By CRYING TO CONGRESS, so why can't average people do the same?? Delicate psyche my arse, what about the media companies!
Off-topic, but my cell phone had that "you've got mail" as the default ringtone for text messages (in the same voice too- I compared it to the AOL sound)
Isn't that voltage normal (I live in China, but it's apparently used almost world-wide)? And even if you are in America, aren't computer power supplies supposed to automatically switch voltage? Mine says 100-240V auto-switching on the back. Also, your PORTABLE CD player? Don't portable electronics have universal (100-240V) AC adapters anyway?
All I can say is that California is all 1900- for everyhwere else, the general rule is that "middle of nowhere" areas are covered by 850 while urman areas are covered by 1900.
Expensive? Oh right, you want BOTH North American bands. That's what's keeping your cost up- if you can get by with only 1900MHz, it'll be much cheaper for you (I can find the V801SH- the Japanese version of the Sharp TM150- for less than $70 here in China if I look on eBay (Chinese site only), and about $110 if I were to go to a store.
CDMA card? Does this card look like a SIM card? If so, then I thought that only China did that. It would make it possible to buy the Korean LG Chocolate from China which comes MP3-capable and put in the CDMA card to start using the phone.
Not here in China. China is a free market- there are still carrier subsidies for service plans, but the phones are sold unlocked (not sure how that works, but it sure is a great thing). There is also an open market for cell phones so that you can pick the one that suits you best without having to buy directly from the carrier (but subsidies don't apply unless you do) unless you're in CDMA. You can still load MP3s just like a normal MP3 player and features are hardly locked down at all, but one carrier has a monopoly on CDMA. This may be because neither carrier has network speeds fast enough to try to sell music through, though. Also, something I wish that carriers in the US would implement is escalating subsidies- buy a pricier service plan, get a bigger discount on the phone (taking note that all local cell phones are sold unlocked). The problem with this is that you are locked to a service plan- you have to pay a fee to change your service plan before your contract is up (2 years everywhere- no 1-year contracts).
MJ? Well... he's bad in a different way, I suppose. At least marijuana can't molest children.
I heard on the local news (in China) that large amounts of pesticide or some other poisonous chemical were found in Coke and Pepsi in India and China- maybe that has something to do with this ban?
Same with me, except a different sort of freedom. When I saw the iTunes Music store launch in Japan I expected to be able to buy music from it. Instead I have to get a Japanese credit card to do so. I want to be able to buy music across borders!
I thought Verizon would (with a little or a lot of trickery)- How else do people get imported Korean phones on Verizon (5-megapixel cameraphones are the phones of my dreams).
How about a dual-mode phone? Unlock the GSM portion and you can have GSM service with CDMA as backup when needed. At least, that's how it works in China (service plans are cheap here too- one number between CDMA and GSM for the phone, and you get about 400 minutes for $20, last I checked)
This looks like the German version of T-Mobile. Is it going to be called T-One in the US as well (When T-Mobile launches UMA in America)?
If this is what I think it is, then someone spilled all the details to Engadget (try searching their website- it was a while back). If it's another test, then I'm sorry for being mistaken. Also- open up a little more- look at that Engadget post. It said far more than you did, and nothing happened to that person.
This is a serious question, because this post has given me possible insight on something I was thinking about- Is this the reason that 3G is so slow to take off, and that the Japanese manufacturers (Toshiba, Sharp, Sanyo, Panasonic, etc) are not putting their best efforts (like their Japanese domestic-market phones) into the American wireless market or (like Sharp) simply not participating at all (This could also be applied to Motorola- look at the differences between their Korean products and their US products)? Because the big carriers are holding everyhing back? I think that Helio will be a big help in breaking this barrier to catching up to the world.
I have said this before, but Sony equipment is not "piles of junk" unless it's made in the US (personal experience). After having a lot of Sony's US-made laptops fail on me, I always buy in Japan- the laptops are made in Japan and are more durable. My VAIO PCG-TR5EB that I bought in Japan (it's made in Japan, too) has survived water spills into the keyboard, while a PCG-V505 (made in the US) has died due to condensation on the OUTSIDE of the laptop. Also, Sony Japan's warranty covers accidental damage, which is a HUGE plus for someone as clumsy as me- this is the kind of the warranty that their US counterpart needs to provide before they will get my business again.
Where is your laptop made? I have a VAIO (Model number PCG-TR5EB) that I've been using since June 2004 that has survived a couple of water spills into the keyboard. Its only current fault is that the left mouse button on the trackpad is a bit... sticky. It's made in Japan. I have another (PCG-V505) that died (won't charge or boot) after a little bit of condensation on the outside of the case while it was off. That one was made in the US. I checked the labels on both. I always buy Sony- but only in Japan. Their "export" models (American-made laptops) have always been more problematic for me than their "domestic" models (Japan-made laptops). Now, maybe you have some evidence to prove that their problems are across the board. But at least their warranty is better in Japan. It covers water, fire, and impact damage (basically, most forms of accidental damage). Their US warranty does not. Sure I have to get used to the Japanese interface, but it brings me better peace of mind knowing that the laptop will work for a long time.