We finally got ourselves some cell phones. Since we don't need them to show HBO or accept faxes we got the cheapest phones we could. As you can (maybe) see from the blurry picture, there's a silver stripe across the front that has the date and time on it. It's only there when you close the phone or it rings. There's also an LED behind it that flashes different colors - blue for missed call, green for voice mail, something else for text message, so that's pretty cool.
And the money shot:
The phones have English menus, which really lowers the learning curve. Unfortunately, the voice mail service is in Japanese - had to get Meiko to listen to the menu and tell us what buttons we needed to press when to retrieve the messages. I also discovered by accident that closing the phone does not end the conversation. I ran my battery down and gave Lee a voice mail that took up the entire allowed time this way, thinking that like my old phone it would end the call when I closed it. Nope! They both have cameras and about thirty places that various cords or cards can be hooked in. This is the typical look of Japanese phones - rectangular with a shiny strip on them. They get more features and colors if you want to pay more, but they're all very similar in style to what we've got. They're also a heck of a lot cheaper to have - just under $10/month per phone which gives us free calling to each other all the time and any other Softbank customer from 1 am to 9 pm. Excellent.
Lee's note: Ana's phone has a button on the side which makes her phone swing open automatically, which is freaking sweet. I would have gotten one except that it was only available in magenta and mauve. Not so much a mauve guy myself.
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