I got a new cell phone.

The Vodafone 904SH made by Sharp.

The coolest yet:

3.2 megapixel Digital camera with 2x optical zoom

1.4 gigabyte memory card (that's huge)

video conferencing

i-mode instant web surfing

Global roaming

the kickers:

Face recognition (when you flip it open, it will not unlock unless the users face scan is saved as an authorized user)

VGA LCD screen...the first in the world (4 times better LCD resolution than ANY OTHER LCD PHONE)

Motion Control sensors and GPS navigation built in

total bluetooth of course with MSN, Skype, and Yahoo messenger built in

multi-language

QR Code Reader

Wireless Infrared commo

Felica (I can wave my phone in front of these really cool cash registers and it charges my debit card automatically)

so many others I can't even list them.

now...if I can only figure out how to use it.

...playa

and the 1GB memory combined with that awesome 3.2 mp digital camera makes for some Awesome videos.

Cool! But Don't lose site of it with your CC info on it! Kim(HV1)

Thats nothing........MY phone has all that PLUS it is a dual foil razor.

Service is spotty around here though, usually all I hear is a humming noise when I turn it on.

Where did all this hair come from?

my phone was free. i can make calls with it. that's why i have a phone.

I can make phone calls with mine....and it has crime deterent (sp?)

That does sound like the bad mamba-jamba of telephones.

I originally decide I wasn't going to get involved this things I didn't fully understand. But if I would have stood by that, I wouldn't have a computer, job or wife.

adroomi, just curious on the price on something like that in American dollars. Can you ballpark it?

8Track,

I got it for free....I traded in points for it. I get one point for every 100 Yen (about $1.00) I spend on my phone, and I run about 4 Grand a month in phone charges, so I have a lot of points.

I think the phone if I were to buy it would be about $300.00 or so.

I am tied to a phone for business though, so I pretty much have to have a fancy one.

I only have a cell phone because my wife got it for me.

Otherwise I wouldn't have one. Mine has a camera that I never use. Games that I never use. A calculator that I never use... get the idea?

If you're going to use all that stuff... good on you. I wouldn't.

MACS,

When I'm home in Illinois I have no use for one.....then again, I don't even have a use for a computer when I'm home in Illinois. My parents still have a rotary phone......

However, where I am right now, it is imperative to have one. It's part of life and business.

I am stuck to a phone as well; but it doesn't bother me too much....I use it to keep in touch with friends/relatives..........also can use it as a cellular modem when I travel.

I'm with Lofty on this one..........I take the free phone that comes with the service, trade it in for the next free phone when my contract needs to be renewed...

But then I pretty much just leave it in my truck....I have a home phone, a work phone, and I guess my cell is a truck phone...

But this phone DOES sound "fancy".....

With a 3.2 megapixel, optical zoom camera and a 1 gigabyte SD card in it, my phone is a better camera than most folks have as a camera alone.

That alone makes it cool to me.

I would be interested to see how well the photos turn out.......please post some.

Quote taken from a gadget website about the phone:

"... so you get into a bad accident and your face is munged - and now you can't call for help because your phone doesn't recognize you. Brilliant!"

Please post some pictures of Andy using his phone.

I bet he has nice sideburns.

my vodafone only has 2 megapixels...from 2 1/2 YEARS ago...i thought about updating, but for a long time, the phones stayed the same...they were more interested in adding tv, and stuff like that...the wife has a tv phone...i may borrow it for a month...gotta watch my world cup!

I've been a gadget freak all of my life. I actually have a "power center", a table (in my office) full of specific rechargers for all my gadgets, plus a dozen or so "wall warts", and six or eight chargers to handle all my rechargable batteries. At night, with the room lights off, it looks like a NASA command center.

I need all these batteries to keep my gadgets alive (scanners, shortwave radios, PSP, Game Boy, digital cameras, 35mm cameras, book lights, laptop, cell phone, power tools, handi talkies, and more).

I have absolutely no use for a phone such as that, but I want one. Right now. Please send one as soon as you can. Please get a delivery confirmation number on the package. Thanks.

Tuck

It doesn't hurt that you live in one of the technology centers of the world!

I finally gave in and consented to a cell phone. It took me 10 years to break down and get a CD player. I absolutely refuse to get an Ipod. I can think of way better things to spend my money on.