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To Prevent Upskirts, Japanese iPhone 3G Always Alerts When Taking Photos
- jsmcgd 18y agoPresumably people who like taking upskirt shots won't use the new iPhone and less nefarious iPhone users will all have to suffer the obnoxious shutter sound. This is nothing more than tokenism and hence I won't be dispensing any brownie points.
- sant0sk1 18y agoIf upskirts are so endemic to Japan that the manufacturers are taking proactive measures with iPhones, its safe to assume they will be doing likewise with other camera phones as well.
- danw 18y agoAs far as I'm aware all manufactures of camera phones are required to produce a noise when taking a snap
- jsmcgd 18y agoPresumably there are other digital cameras that do not make a sound when taking a picture and these are the ones that are used. My gripe isn't with Apple but the legislation which I imagine hasn't really amounted to much.
- aardvarkious 18y agomy possibly wrong understanding isn't that this is law, but that consumers boycott phones without this "feature"
- mechanical_fish 18y agoAnd that makes perfect sense. In an environment where the typical phone makes a noise, carrying a phone that takes photos silently is like wearing a sign around your neck that says "pervert". The bad news for birdwatchers everywhere is that this trick doesn't work with binoculars.
- gommm 18y agoA friend who worked at a japanese phone manufacturer told me that they have to have this feature to be able to market it.... In the two years I have been there I never saw a phone that didn't make a shutter sound (and god how obnoscious my phone's shutter sound was)...
- petercooper 18y agoWhat about small digital cameras, like pencams?
- rkowalick 18y agoWhy Japan is at once one of the most hilarious and one of the most disgusting places on earth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDSdcxzz6uE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDSdcxzz6uE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enjo_k%C5%8Dsai http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enjo_k%C5%8Dsai
- pavelludiq 18y agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrAyXyqCXeY&NR=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrAyXyqCXeY&NR=1 This is even funnier :D It would be cool to make my toilet like that, i could get my head up for some fresh air.
- mynameishere 18y agoCountadown keishi! The two sweetest words in the Japanese language!
- pchristensen 18y agoI don't even have to see the video to laugh when I hear it! Countadown keishi!
- rkowalick 18y agoI found an even better one! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAEaengvr2w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAEaengvr2w