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  AU_user_since_1998Feb. 09, 2012 - 01:01PM JST

  hope that the couple will not follow the footprints of many J-stars. get divorce just after 2-3 years

  Posted in: Kuroki reported pregnant 2 weeks after denying relationship with Akanishi

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  AU_user_since_1998Feb. 02, 2012 - 11:55PM JST

  I remember some time between 2000 and 2008, Japan constantly gave warning to China that if they continue drilling in the median line, Japan will also commence drilling in the median line (but of course, on the east-side of the median line).

  Let us see from this day onward if Japan is just a crying baby, a barking dog with fangs, or simply has no balls.

  Posted in: Japan protests to China over undersea gas drilling

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  AU_user_since_1998Jan. 26, 2012 - 06:16PM JST

  RECOMMENDED READING:

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  Apple's Massive Numbers And Some Context

  http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/24/boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom/

  Posted in: Apple posts record $13.06 bil quarterly net profit

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  AU_user_since_1998Jul. 28, 2011 - 04:39PM JST

  This month of July, I quit Softbank (because of iPhone turned into i-Brick). Two subscribers will be added to DoComo because I also changed my work phone from SB to DoCoMo. Also because of what happened to my iPhone, some of my friends thinking of going to Softbank were discourage of doing so and they had changed their minds. They stayed in Docomo and some stayed to AU.

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  To potential iPhone subscribers, please be warned that Apple does not offer a monthly insurance of the phones unlike AU/DoCoMo, in which just for a fee of 390 yen per month, your phone will be replaced even if you inadvertently and purposely drop your phone into the toilet bowl.

  Posted in: Softbank profit surges on brisk smartphone sales

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  AU_user_since_1998Jul. 27, 2011 - 11:59PM JST

  The future of mobile Phones will be waterproof (about 20meters undersea), 24-megapixel camera, ultra-high-sensitive microphone and highly-advance Voice Encoder (Vocoder) for teleconferencing, delivering and sending (including tethering functions) of high-definition movies via 6-GHz frequencies and above at a bandwidth wider than the current 15-MHz wide offered by LTE. Once 6Ghz frequency is achieved in mobile phones, video phone will be in a form of holographic projections of the person in the other line at real-time and can have a holographic recording just like in the movie I.ROBOT in 2004.

  Android phones has more capability to turn my prophecy into reality by 2020-2040. Hardware-wise, and at some point software-wise, Android phones are advancing at a wider pace than what apple is making. I can already see in the technological lead of Android phones that flooding the Japanese market right now.

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  I am not a member of iHaters because I don't even care whenever there is new iProduct. I am happy with AU phone since IDO (the company name before AU) in 1998. The companies where I worked before for several years gave us DoCOmo phones for work and I have no complain with their phones and the services.

  But, 5 months ago, as a gift to my wife, maybe because several of her friends have iPhone, I also bought her iPhone 4. Barely 4 months, the iPhone overheated and most probably broken due to the saliva of my one-year old kid. There is no monthly insurance of 390 yen just like in DoCOmo and AU, so now my iPhone became an iBrick which Apple would like to charge me 26,000YEN for the repair of it.

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  With BAD Customer Service of Softbank and Apple, I transferred my wife phone to DoComo even though I will still be paying 20 more months of 1,920yen monthly amortization. There is a lot of Waterproof Android phones in the market and I did not know until now why I bought an iCrap iPhone which became an iBrick easily. Now I remember why Apple never offered a monthly insurance (even though I insisted) because they know how crappy the hardware of their iPhone is. I have more than two years old AU phone, and my xPeria x10 is more than 1 year old but in spite I am paying a 390 yen for monthly hardware insurance, they never break. Docomo and AU even told me that they will replace my phone even if i intentionally break them. Because of this, I also transferred my current company's work phone (which is a softbank phone) to DoCOmo Smartphone.

  Posted in: Tech leaders ponder future of mobile phones

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  AU_user_since_1998Jul. 22, 2011 - 11:23AM JST

  I think, it is better to make the products expensive.

  -- Indians are known for being big-discount shoppers. Usually, the discount in Japan and in the US are 10% to 35% of the list price. Indians usually demand the reverse of it, i.e., a discount of 65 to 90%. If you insist to them that there is no discount, they will be fighting for freebies, etc.

  Posted in: Toshiba announces new business strategy for India

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  AU_user_since_1998Jul. 21, 2011 - 07:06AM JST

  Since 2007 when iPhone was introduced, Apple earnings is always rosy, seems to be unstoppable............ But it will be changing in the near future, if not sooner. Apple can feel it.

  http://www.dailytech.com/Apples+Plot+to+Kill+Top+Android+Maker+HTC+Nears+Fruition+With+Win/article22173.htm

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  http://www.dailytech.com/EDITORIAL+How+HTC+May+Survive+Apples+Brutal+Legal+Assault/article22184.htm

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  Loss of manufacturer would be a huge blow to Android

  Apple, Inc. (AAPL) has struggled to compete with Android. Its newest phone is over a year old, and looks badly dated compared to the latest slick Android hardware. And it's being outsold over two-to-one by Android globally, according to market researchers. But Apple has a secret weapon -- litigation.

  Posted in: Apple profit rockets with hot iPad, iPhone sales

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  AU_user_since_1998Jul. 20, 2011 - 06:31PM JST

  If you are a a biker where you always put your iPhone in a pocket (and it's rainy days); or a person working or living in a wet environments, don't buy iPhone 4. It is very weak in waterproofing even for a small amount of rain or splash of water, wet pocket or wet hands.

  You will just end up paying 26,000Yen (330USD) for the repair.

  Android phones now are more hardware- and software- superior and more durable.

  That is why in the US, the only strategy of Apple is LITIGATION against Android hardware manufacturers. Apple now teams up with Microsoft and Oracle/Java in LITIGATION against Android Phone makers and with Google.

  Posted in: Apple profit rockets with hot iPad, iPhone sales

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  AU_user_since_1998Jul. 20, 2011 - 12:18AM JST

  In the Philippines, the motorcycle model that is so popular with the masses is the 125-cc or the 155-cc models. These models are not popular in Japan.

  In the rural areas, these motorcycles are the lifeblood of the masses. They convert this into an orbiting-satellite like vehicle. Please see the link below.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBNtJQIQlgE&NR=1

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZQUOOLNYv8&feature=related

  Posted in: Suzuki to construct new motorcycle production plant in Philippines

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  AU_user_since_1998Jul. 04, 2011 - 05:50PM JST

  making high-efficient motors and high-capacity batteries for cars including mining the rare earth metals to produce them, disposing them in large quantities when the cars are to be scrapped, will contribute more damage to the environment than gasoline or diesel engine.

  Posted in: Mazda sees growth with lean gas engines, not EVs

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