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iPhone queue in Tokyo

I went this morning with Dannychoo to check out the iPhone queue in the main Softbank store in Harajuku. It’s impressive, there is already people lining up for tomorrow! Did you get an iPhone today? will you wait? you don’t care about the iPhone? Here there are some pictures of the queue I took:

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Aoki, Haruhiko and Akira from Sony were almost at the end of the queue, I wonder why they don’t get a Sony-Ericcson phone πŸ˜‰

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Danny is hiding a bunch of iPhones inside his armor. Btw, he is on CNN.

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I found Roy and Brad more or less in the middle of the queue, they are waiting since yesterday! I hope they get an iPhone, they looked really tired.

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In the background, very far away, if you look carefully you’ll be able to see Steve Jobs head, he was also lining up since yesterday πŸ˜‰

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In his dream he can see an iPhone falling inside his bag

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The queue for tomorrow starts here.

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Check out more pictures and information about the iPhone 3G launch in Japan in Dannychoo’s blog.

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UMPC running Windows Vista

Willcom, the company that made the W-ZERO3, just launched a new super-telephone-pda-smartphone or UMPC (Ultra-Mobile PC) or whatever you want to call it, and it works with Windows Vista! In Microsoft they must be very happy to see how someone has bothered to do so, and has managed to do it! But if you see the machine specs, then you understand that it is not so miraculous: Centrino 1.33GHz, 1Gb DDR2, 40Gb Ultra ATA, 5 inches TFT. It will probably become one one of the gadgets of the year in Japan, it costs 40.000 yen (400$) and you can connect to the Internet using PHS.

Willcom

Willcom

Willcom

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70s pocket calculator

I found this interesting magazine ad at DC News. It’s one of the first pocket calculators that where sold in Japan. It was made by Sharp and it cost 84,800 yen!, nowadays that would be around 800$

Calculadora Sharp

Have you ever used one of these? Why are some functions together in the same buttons?

Links about pocket calculators: