I think I'm turning Japanese...

One of my Japanese friends recently canceled his cell phone. I, as well of all of his other friends have been completely irritated by this, so much that he may get voted off the damn island. 『日本人失格それ！』(That is a disqualification for being Japanese!) I told him after I looked up his damn house phone number. I am really starting to worry about him, but I may need to worry about myself even more. I may be going the other way because I recently UPgraded to a fabulous cell phone so great I just had to brag about it. Click here to see the english site with more pictures than I am giving you below! It is beeaauuuutiful!
It has a nice camera, of course, but its not just that it has a nice camera, it has TWO lenses: one for taking pics of yourself and one for taking pics of other people.

It can open up and flip all around to that the screen is facing outwards. It plays music and of course it can take movies that can be stored on its 64 megabyte memory card (bigger cards are available), it also has BLUETOOTH and INFA-RED file transmission features, and besides that there are two other REALLY cool things about it.

Thats right, it has a MAP, as in satellite GPS. Cool huh.

Great for a map freak like me. May not be too dependable though, when I am at home (shown here on the map) the automatic locator is about 600 meters off. This has to do with your current satellite reception. If you can connect with three sats at once, it is supposed to be very accurate, so much that you can get VOICE directions (in Japanese) telling you to turn left or right en route to a destination.

The other super cool thing about it is the VIDEO CAMERA CALL capability. Its not as good as being on the internet with two Macintosh computers, but it is certaintly faster, simpler and more expensive. I took three pics of my phone during a call, and made them into an animation so you can see that it is moving (look at the call timer on the screen):

Cool huh. Say hello to Sayaka! When using this feature you switch it to the speakerphone or use the earpiece. When on a TV call, you are of course using the inside camera lens. You can usually see your own face at the bottom, but here you can see the corner of the camera (and the unused flash).

Thats all for now. From the land of cool Japanese Crap.

Ta ta
Erich von Meatleg