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I love Japan, and i love how they use the technologies in day to day life earlier than in other countries, it is time now for paying your meal at McDonalds by mobile phone. It is easy and quick.

This payment method is based Felica RFID technology, installed in most modern Japanese phones to create the first program of this type, allowing customers using Kazasu Coupon (Contactless Coupon) to choose their meals, redeem coupons, and pay for purchases all with their mobile phones. Beginning with 175 stores and expanding gradually to its 3,800 nationwide stores by 2009.

How to use it. At first you must download the application to your mobile phone and choose the coupon you like. Then the coupon is redeemed by placing the phone near the RFID reader at the register, instantly adding the item to the order. At last, you must complete your order paying using NTT Docomo’s iD mobile wallet.

Check this video to see how it works.

Well, i am waiting for things like this here that make our life easier.

Via CScoutJapan

Jarpa is a newborn baby which seeks packaging Flash Lite into Java ME. It still lacks of documentation, just some on Google groups. As the authors said in their website, ” Jarpa allows Java ME and Flash Lite Developers extend their mobile applications like in Flyer Framework or Janus but with the widespread acceptance of Java ME and Flash Lite mobile devices.”

Good Luck, Jarpa!

More Info Jarpa - Jarpa on Google Code

Can you imagine what happen when you put your mobile phone inside your microwave?. believe me, you can not. Check it out.

Via Break

Oh God!!, i want one of this CameraPhones, 8 megapixel camera fixed in a cell phone, that shocks!

k-Touch C280 is the name for this “snappy weapon”, build with a 3x optical Samsung´s zoom features 1600 ISO support and uses Canon’s own DIGIC III image processing. The phone was presented in the China market during CHITEC 2008

There are no more details revealed, but this is an incredible advance in camera phones and i am sure it will reach a great success as soon as it will be available in the market.

Via New Launches

Will Apple include geo-tagging in upcoming iPhone 2.0 release?

This might be supposed looking at some information reported to AppleInsider from people of the handful of Apple’s partners that are testing a new beta, namely, build 5A292g.

The new geo-tagging features would apply to Google Maps and Camera applications and would prompt every time your location were to be used.

For a less annoying behaviour (I hate that kind of prompt messages!), a ‘Location Services’ switch would be added to General Settings in order to enable/disable Location Services.

Via AppleInsider

3.3 billion cell phones were registered in 2007. This is approximately the 49% of the world´s population. Amazing!

The first markets are China and India, incredibly followed by Africa with a strong growth of 39% last year. This number is because handset companies like Nokia, LG or Samsung a wide range of low cost products in these markets.

Of course cell Phones will rule the world of communications and medias immediately, and this number will increase higher at the end of this year.

Via Gizmologia

Remember, this is the WWDC countdown, 16 days left. : )

Do you think Opera is a minor alternative? I really don´t have any numbers, but from my view, Firefox and Safari have been increasing their fans, as well as Opera has not ever been noticed as a strong competitor on desktops systems (do you know someone using it on his/her desktop? ).

Opera´s main advantage is its focus on mobile devices on the last years, which results are good: now it´s the preferred option for web-browsing on Windows Mobile devices, and probably also for less powerful devices (thanks to Opera Mini, whose 4.1 version was released recently).

Now Opera has played an intelligent move, with the new Opera Widgets SDK Beta. This SDK allows you to create widgets (mini-apps) which will work on desktops AND mobile devices (not only smartphones, even ARCHOS multimedia devices). So this cross-platform capabilities may be a good leap on desktop systems, we will see how well those widgets integrate and how much people likes and uses them. I would bet for a system who lets me use the same little app on my desktop, mobile, PDA, Nintendo Wii or other devices.

The SDK is open source and follows the same pattern of other SDKs like Google´s Web Toolkit or iPhone´s SDK (even in the logo image! lol). It provides useful libraries for I/O, RSS, Graphics, etc; as well as lots of info, an emulator and DragonFly (Opera´s Firebug).

Now it´s your time for installing Opera and trying some widgets from the Opera Widgets site.

Via XatakaMovil

Links Opera - Opera Widgets SDK - Opera Widgets site - Opera Widgets cross-platform capabilities - Opera Mini 4.1 released - DragonFly - Firebug

Howard Chui has made a review of this pre-release version of the Blackberry Bold, check it out.

Watch this following video to know the differences between Apple iPhone and Blackberry Bold.

Via Xataka Movil

Sleek audio SA6! Maybe one of the best high quality in-ear earphones.

Thanks to Sleek audio, we are going to publish a complete review of this unbelievable earphones with a lot of pictures, comments, opinions, videos and an interview with Jason & Mark krywko, developers of this wonderful item.

This review will be posted soon.

Don’t miss it!