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[pandamonium]

I just watched G4techtv ATTACK OF THE SHOW in Japan. And they had a small segment of phones in japan, thought i would share with those that werent able to see it.



Vodafone 905SH

The Vodafone 905SH is one of the coolest phones that I saw in Japan. It looks like a standard flip phone with a huge 2.9-inch screen that’s based on Sharp’s Aquos technology. What’s really cool is that the screen pivots from portrait to landscape mode, which is great for enjoying the phone’s most awesome feature: the ability to watch live TV!

This baby is a multimedia workhorse. In landscape mode, the 2.9-inch screen lets you watch TV and video in 16:9, it also has Bluetooth, a 2-megapixel camera, and a MiniSD slot.

Biometric security is huge in Japan, and the Vodafone 905SH has face recognition software. You take a photo of yourself to unlock it! How cool is that?

*2.9-inch Aquos Screen by Sharp
*16:9 aspect ratio
*Has a face recognition screen for biometric security
*You can watch live TV with it
*2-megapixcel camera

ITS SO AWESOME. i want it.

they mentioned the latest in japanese phones were:
* Live TV
* The barcode checker, on every ad or magazine or product advertising there is a small box which squiggly lines in it that acts as a barcode, you take a picture with your phone and you are sent information about that product.

They showed the tv actually playing and it looked great, it wasnt staticy at all i was suprized.

I am so jealous. I tried to look up the other phones they had on G4 but i couldnt find any pictures on them.

WHY does japan have all this advanced crap and we get excited by have 100 songs on our damn phones. and our freakin 1.3 megapixels. They got face recognition, our phones wouldnt know our face from a dogs A** lol.

[uLoVeMikeRoch]

they mentioned the latest in japanese phones were:
* Live TV
* The barcode checker, on every ad or magazine or product advertising there is a small box which squiggly lines in it that acts as a barcode, you take a picture with your phone and you are sent information about that product.


WHY does japan have all this advanced crap and we get excited by have 100 songs on our damn phones. and our freakin 1.3 megapixels. They got face recognition, our phones wouldnt know our face from a dogs A** lol.

All this is pretty old. And Korea actually makes the best phones, because there aren't that many Phone companies in Japan. Sony Ericsson is basically the only one I think of Off the top of my head.

Anyways, there are cameras with 8 megapixels like sandy said. SPH-V8200 or something like that. This is all DMB. DMB is actually pretty popular, outside of the US. Britain, Korea, Japan all have this. But one reason why they it, is cause those countries are tiny compared to the U.S.


And Michael, refering to your last post. Yeah, there really isn;t a need for any of us to be connected all the time. Most of the time, these companies are just putting the technology and making it, just to show what modern technology can do. Plus, its all about making money too. "OMGLOLZORSITPLAYSVIDEOS!!!111one"

Plus, then there are the people who truly like it, and aprreciate watching tv on the go like this. But that market is actually pretty small.