Japanese Cellphones and the Rest of the World

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Japanese Cellphones and the Rest of the World

zogger

Tue Aug 19 19:01:00 -0700 2008

Electronics.

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Japan is well known for electronic innovation, and one area where the gee whizz factor is high is with some of their cellphones. Unfortunately, most of this tech is never found outside of Japan. That should be changing shortly as a new push to export this tech has been started.

Although Japan boasts some of the most sophisticated cell phones in the world, delivering high-speed Internet connections, digital TV broadcasts and video downloads, the nation has failed to make its handsets, wireless technology and mobile services hits outside of Japan. ed.z.: One day, some company is going to develop a cellphone with an astounding number of advanced features, except reality will slip through the cracks and they will forget the actual "telephone" part...

Japanese Cellphones and the Rest of the World

President4242

Wed Aug 20 07:37:19 -0700 2008
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Paul Krugman recently made an observation linking our current globalization with one that happened in the late 1890s- the British Empire. Americans today, like the mythical Londoner Sir Keynes wrote about, can have almost all the products of the world delivered with just a phone call- and in return, can invest anywhere in the world.

The Internet is just a better phone, in this respect.

Maybe, though, it's time to do to Japan what Japan did to the United States- go there, buy specific pieces of their technology, come back here, reverse engineer them, and release them to the general public.

However, I fear it will all end just like the British Empire did- in disaster for every country ever colonized by them.