Re: cell phones for multiple countries
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Also you can get pretty cool phones overseas, seems America is always two+ years behind the technological times...you'll be blown away what you can get your cell to do if you buy it in a country like Japan. Then you can take this uber-badass phone back to the USA, get Verizon to give you a sim card for your number and now the USA is but another SIM card in the mixed bag that you have.
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I find it interesting to compare the 3 big regions in communication technology.
Japan: Implements state-of-the-art technology extremely fast. Results in a high gadget-factor, but is often based on immature and buggy technology. Impressive, but not necessarily working very well.
Europe: Waits a few years. Sees what works in Japan and allows it to mature before it is deployed. Creators of GSM and 3G.
USA: Lags behind both Europe and Japan with its trend of "inventing" technology that is almost similar to older technology already deployed in Europe/Japan.
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