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Yer its all yahoo japan champ! I assume you can bring the freight cost down as well if you bring it all in in a container?

i dont use containers, just ems and sea freight.

i also got a yahoo auctions account to. Some things i should be able to get chucked in with my items tho.

There's lots of water-transfer printed carbon-look trim pieces for R34's I'd love that I've seen on ImportMonster. The price isn't stupidly high, but as soon as you add in the shipping/IM charges - it becomes pointless :)

If IPhones don;t already rule the world, they most certainly will when IPhone 4 comes out .... I can hardly wait.

I have mates that bag IPhones and have HTCs, Nokias, Samsungs etc .... but none of them have the all-round features the IPhone 3GS does - and most certainly can't compete with the 4G.

If IPhones don;t already rule the world, they most certainly will when IPhone 4 comes out .... I can hardly wait.

I have mates that bag IPhones and have HTCs, Nokias, Samsungs etc .... but none of them have the all-round features the IPhone 3GS does - and most certainly can't compete with the 4G.

I dont have anything against the iphone itself, but i wouldnt own one purely for the fact that syncing and usability with iTunes is toilet. I own an iTouch, and i dont bother with music much anymore, too hard. Well not that its hard, im just too lazy. Apps and stuff, A+, would love the same for Blackberry.

im happy with it so far, my iphone used to be unresponsive like that x10 in teh vid quite often, have not had the x10 long enough to say what its like in that regard. i have to say the scrolling and browsing on the x10 craps on the iphone from a great height

Not much of a fan of iTunes myself. I would like it if the iPod/iTouch/iPhone etc. could simply be plugged in and music copied to it without iTunes and its DRM rubbish. Also want a user removable battery in such devices!

me either .. i love my iphone .. never understood the 'zomg i just wanna install stuff and apple says NO .. wah wah' people go on about.

Some people want choice. Apple doesn't like their end users have such a luxury.

As for the 4G, I'm unimpressed... Once again they announce "new features" that have been existing in other phones for some time, the only thing that interests me is the screen resolution... Taken from the press release.

* 3.5" Retina Display - 326 pixels per inch (960 x 640) I would argue OLED more efficient however impressive resolution

* Bigger battery (7 hr. 3G talk, 6 hr. 3G browsing, 10 hr. Wi-Fi browsing, 300 hr. standby) Impressive standby, yes

* Front-facing camera Been around for donkeys years from various brands

* 5 MP camera with LED flash and illuminated sensor (tap to focus) 5MP eh? Welcome to 2007, atleast it's an upgrade from the paltry 3.2 or whatever was in the 3GS

* 720p HD video recording with built-in iMovie video editing (iMovie available in App Store for $4.99) 720p video editing with a max of 32GB storage? I can see that working well. Not sure why you want to edit video on your phone?

* Video chat (Wi-fi only) Seriously? Come on? I was video chatting back in '04 on an old NEC piece of shit

The REAL clincher for me is.... iAds I hope this isn't used an abused. Just the thought of a constant stream of advertisements on my phone, ergh, I get enough on the internet. Investors have already thrown $60m at iAds so it's gonna be pushed hard I think. No matter, I'll just get an app to block the ads, oh wait, Apple won't approve of that app will they?

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YMMV, this is just MY opinion. iFans don't get your panties in a bunch

***NOTE***

YMMV, this is just MY opinion. iFans don't get your panties in a bunch

I agree 100%....

Its a shame that the very reason apple started their locking down was a noble one - that being the fact that early copies of windows would constantly crash due to either poorly designed hardware and/or poorly designed drivers - they could define what precisely their customers were getting in terms of hardware - this is what's got them a brilliant reputation, regardless of how many people laud their human interface guidelines

now theyve switched to intel, the poorly made devices sold 15 years ago are no longer around since only the best of the best survive on the intel x86 consumer market... so thru attrition both the pc and mac people have taken advantage of the shoody manufacturers going out of business

thing is apple do have very nicely designed "products" which "just work" - by that definition they do a narrow range of things very very well and maybe run other software, if you're lucky...

the general perception of software vendors who tether hardware has become frowned upon over time - if Android can have a universal API that lets anyone write an app for android and it'll run on any version of certified hardware, then I think apple will find themselves on the back foot (this is in spite of them having overtaken microsoft for the time being - i think time will see MS come back on top as their business model doesnt require their own specified hardware (gates of borg meet jobs of borg)....

things started to go downhill when they forced people to use iTunes for their iPods... if a man is sane enough to copy the files he wants from folder to folder, then why lock them down and force them to use this software? Simple. Cash. AAC. DRM. All the foul stuff.

Apple are going to go down sometime or another. I think the steve jobs 'reality distortion field' has topped itself with the iTampon

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