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       <title>Apple Reinvents the Phone?</title>
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       <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Update (2009-02-28)&lt;/em&gt;: Alright, guilty as charged. &amp;ldquo;No wireless. Less space
 than a nomad.
 &lt;a href=&#34;https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/Apple-releases-iPod&#34;&gt;Lame&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;After watching the Steve Jobs iPhone keynote, I have to say I&amp;rsquo;m a little
 disappointed. While this phone has a slicker GUI than any other phone I&amp;rsquo;ve
 seen, it&amp;rsquo;s not so much the $499 US price-tag, but the stone-age functionality
 of the phone compared to what we have here in Japan that makes my jaw
 drop.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;Here in Japan, 3 years ago in 2004, for 1 yen, I had the following in a
 cellphone:&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;ul&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;3G download speeds of 50 Mb/s.&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;Two-way video-phone.&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;Built-in fingerprint scanner (for security checks).&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;MP3 player and download service.&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;Edy BitWallet (like Interac, except you swipe your finger on the
 phone&amp;rsquo;s scanner to accept the transaction).&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;Can be used as a &lt;em&gt;Suica&lt;/em&gt; train pass.&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;Can buy movie tickets and scan in at the theatre, bypassing the
 lineup.&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;Can wave it at vending machines for food and drinks.&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;Will figure out train routes, transfer locations and times, and
 ticket prices.&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;Can scan barcodes which take you to websites – eg. scan at the bus
 station to pull up the schedule or scan a magazine to order a
 product.&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;MP3 player and download service.&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;Decent email (+ attachments), SMS, calendaring, notepad.&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;Automatic location triangulation (by determining which antennae are
 nearby) and location-aware mapping, shopping/restaurant listings.&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;Interactive mapping of current location with zooming and scrolling.&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;Integrated graphical web-browser.&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;1 megapixel Camera, Video camera.&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;Display/graph your phone usage to the day.&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;Can write and deploy your own Java/C/C++ applets.&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;/ul&gt;
 &lt;p&gt;If you go for a high-end phone with more than the above (e.g. built-in TV
 tuner), you&amp;rsquo;ll need to pay more than one yen, but the price range is normally
 below ¥20,000 ($200 Canadian). In its current state, the iPhone won&amp;rsquo;t sell in
 Japan even if it&amp;rsquo;s free; Apple is going to have to do some major work if it
 wants to compete with even the bare-bones models on the market in Japan.&lt;/p&gt;
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