Japanese company SuperSoftware has designed an iPhone app that is capable of turning your photos into Japanese comics.
Japanese company SuperSoftware has designed an iPhone app that is capable of turning your photos into Japanese comics.
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Apple added Japanese support for Siri in its most recent software update, iOS 5.1, but it appears that the voice-activated assistant doesn’t perform as well as competing service Shabette Concier from NTT Docomo.
Apple added Japanese support for Siri in its most recent software update, iOS 5.1, but it appears that the voice-activated assistant doesn’t perform as well as competing service Shabette Concier from NTT Docomo. This video pits the two head-to-head and finds that Siri has a couple of important shortcomings. Noticeably, its language processing doesn’t seem to handle colloquial speech as well as Shabette Concier and there isn’t support for maps or location lookup for restaurants and hospitals yet.
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The main idea of these cases is to show how Japanese warlords from the Sengoku period would probably use their iPhones if they lived today. Each case comes with a specially designed pouch, a booklet explaining the historical background of the design and a storage box.
SoftBank BB is offering historic handcrafted Japanese iPhone cases for $1000 each, according to a CrunchGear report.The hand made cases will be offered in five different designs with each design representing an important bit of Japanese history.
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