Craven de Kere wrote:Wy wrote:Craven, how do cell phones work in other countries? What are we missing -- what do we yell for?
The US is lagging behind Korea and Japan in terms of technology.
In Brazil this whole thing is much simpler. You buy the phone so few plans ever require a contract. You only pay for outgoing calls and the incoming calls are billed to the caller (this means that through pre-paid plans you have have a cell phone you use for receiving calls only and pay a few cents a month to nothing).
You don't own the cell phones in the States? That be weird! And yeah Japanese cellphone technology and service has always been years (literally) ahead of the US.
For example, it's not uncommon in Japan now to do full video-conferencing between phones (bandwidth rates be very low), while I believe that not that many phones in the US are even using cameras yet.
Heehee
Do youse guys have "bone-resonance" phone thingies over there that don't require a mic?
It picks up bone vibrations that are always there! There's no way it can cause cancer (greater than regular earphones anyway, since it's just sending the signal it receives down a wire to your cell phone) and there's no security concern that would be greater than when you're talking to yourself or when you're using a regular phone. :wink:
Those are the standard paranoid reasons why something isn't offered. For years there were news reports that cell phone use might cause cancer, y'know.
