“Charisma Navigation”
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……”Charisma Navigation” is a revolutionary handheld personal navigation system that utilizes a pioneering global positioning system-equipped (GPS) cell phone in conjunction with some nifty online mapping technologies to tell people — whether it be in Japanese, English or Korean — exactly where to go. ….”Charisma Navigation is a convenient and easy-to-use system that addresses in a new way the problems foreign tourists face,” …The system includes a rich database of tourist information that can be downloaded simply into the cell phone and browsed on its relatively large (2.4 inch) QVGA screen…
< --tourist information in all in Japanese
Right here in the article, without a hint of irony they show the helpful and “rich database of tourist information.” Yes, that is not a misprint—They claim that a postage stamp sized screen with a map in JAPANESE is going the help the “problems foreign tourists face.” Dang. That’s the whole problem. Japanese streets don’t have names, the buildings are numbered randomly, and the locations are written in Japanese. A 2.4 inch screen is cruel joke: Would you buy a 2.4 inch square paper map? Arrrrrg.
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