Among the cool cellphone technologies in Japan, I thought the following is pretty nifty. http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/amazon-japan-cell-phone-fancypants-service-026198.php You can use a cellphone to scan a barcode, then it communicates with Amazon Japan to compare prices or purchase.
that's brilliant! its an actual cell phone accessory that i would use, screw shoddy picture taking, games and mp3 abilities, thats what cameras, gameboys and mp3 players are for. don't know why our country is so behind in the cell phone thing. I can't get reception in school in washington dc off a major road or on the 40th floor in a NY office building, but in china i can get reception underground in the subway, in the countryside and in the plains in tibet.
The Gizmondo is coming to the US next year. check it out, Games, MP3s, movie player and GPS all in one device. Gonna be cool. DD
mainly because our hard infrastructure is much more developed. when third world countries like india and china started to modernize they went straight to large investments in mobile technology infrastructure. so they're a little ahead as a consequence of being behind.
