Lines form outside Softbank Mobile Stores
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
3G iPhone frenzy is a worldwide phenomenon, basically any country selling it will see hardcore iphone lovers forming lines outside stores days before the actual launch. It is the same with Japan’s Softbank Mobile stores, as the main building in Tokyo already has at least 20 people waiting in line before it is officially released. The first person is Sano, a 24-year old computer science student, who won his place there simply by winning a rock-paper-scissors game with the rest of the group. While the rest of Japan’s phones are highly sophisticated, it is the full software suite of the iPhone that attracts buyers. I’m sure a waterproof version will do phenomenally well in Japan, properly modeled or not.
Remember the day you drooled all over your keyboard when Hitachi introduced a 1TB internal hard drive? Yeah, like a year and a half ago? The outfit’s most recent HDD announcement isn’t likely to have nearly the same effect, but those who skipped the first-gen version in order to get a more refined product the second go ’round will surely be delighted. Today marks the debut of the 1TB Deskstar 7K1000.B, which goes down as “the world’s most energy-efficient 7,200RPM one-terabyte hard drive.” Said drive features a new three-disk design which improves idle power consumption up to 43% over its 1TB predecessor, but unfortunately, there’s no telling how long you’ll have to wait to actually buy this currently unpriced overlord of storage.
