The iPhone Mock-Up: Divine Justice
So there is a God. Finally, after all this time, some proof that there are checks and balances in this crazy world, what goes around comes around, alls well that ends well, it evens out in the end, the sun'll come out tomorrow. Why? Because, for once, Japan didn't get something cool before we did. It really is a lovely feeling, not that I'm a bitter and jealous little creature that spends most of my time counting and hoarding and recounting doubloons. Oh, no.
One such Japanese fan of the iPhone, gone mad with a hunger that we understand only too well, decided to make his own iPhone. That's right... the picture you see accompanying this post is not a real iPhone. Using his own tools and ingenuity and the specs given out over the web, this crazed fan recreated an iPhone and stuck an image of the Home screen in it just so he would know what it was like to hold one. Now that's dedication. Sure, it doesn't work at all, but who are we to judge one man's pleasures and pains?
So breathe a sigh of relief, because just once, there is a Japanese citizen who is jealous of our ability to own an electronic goodie. Too bad you can't really make a mock-up of a game. Somehow pasting a blown-up screenshot and holding a controller probably isn't as fun or as impressive to the people of the internets.
Check out the Gizmodo article for the step-by-step process of how the mock-up was made!
Pirate Prince
Posted to Miscellany on 14 August 2007
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I'm sorry to dispel your "nyah nyah" moment, but there's nothing that the iPhone can do that Japanese keitai denwa haven't been doing (and better)(and cheaper) for several years already.
When I lived in the suburbs of Chiba, I paid 1000 en (that's around $10) for a phone that can do what most North American $100 can almost do. This was 4 years ago. On top of that, it had abilities that no North American phone had, such as being tapped into the entire Japanese public rail system. With a few simple inputs, it could calculate the fastest, cheapest, and least complex routes (as well as several alternatives such as "scenic routes") between any two stations anywhere in the country. Can the iPhone do that? Probably not, but what it can do is a whole bunch of stuff that - realistically - you may never use (though to be fair, every phone has at least a few functions like that)
On top of that you get charged every which way with these things. Japan (and most European countries as well) have much cheaper deals than here - you can carry out a busy phone-life (text messages, email, and simple internet inclusive) for half the cost of the most basic deals here.
This isn't me doing any Mac/Apple hatin', btw. I'm not poo-pooing the iPhone. I'm poo-pooing our cell networks and the gouging they do.
But on the plus side, when the iPhone finally does come out in Japan, it'll be way cheaper than here. I don't think it'll sell otherwise. So if you want one for less than $600, just wait until it hits Akihabara then ship one in. Or buy the Korean knock-offs for $60.