Everyone knows that the cellphones in Japan is space-ages ahead of those in Singapore. The Apple iphone seem to be making waves all over the world, but in Japan no one really bats an eyelid. With cellphones here, you can: make calls (duh), take pictures, surf the net, watch TV and pay train fares with it. Oh, did I mention you can track your position on GPS too? Another cool feature is that with your cellphone you can assess websites just by scanning barcodes published on advertisements (see photo).

Everyone is also asking if you could bring these cool phones back to Singapore. Unfortunately they work on an entirely different network so it is not possible to use them back at home. However, i hear that you may be able to 'unlock' some phones in dark deserted alleys of Akihabara (dun quote me on that). Anyway, cellphones here do not have English predictive text messaging, so sms-ing is a real pain...