(keitai-l) Re: Handset prices - Kansai vs. Kanto

<huffy>
As evidence of being able to read *some* Japanese, see
  www.idiom.com/~turner/JEvaHz
</huffy>

The problem is more that my brain is addled (see the
majority of my postings here, if you don't have enough
evidence already) and my eyes are older than their 45 years.

Hardly a day goes by that I don't exclaim "hey!  They can't
say that in a family newspaper!" followed by, "Oh....I see...
they didn't."

-michael turner
leap@gol.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian McDonnell" <ian@mcdonnell.net>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 8:45 PM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Handset prices - Kansai vs. Kanto


> It think it could only look cheaper if you couldn't read Japanese and you
> guessed incorrectly what the "man" character meant.
> If you read Japanese it reads correctly 30800yen in Tokyo and 22000 yen in
> Osaka.
>
> I think I may get my friends in Osaka to buy me my Foma phone in October
> ..., doooh! Osaka won't have Foma!
>
> Ian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Virgil Vergara" <virgil@hawaii.rr.com>
> To: "keitai l appelsiini.net" <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 11:35 AM
> Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Handset prices - Kansai vs. Kanto
>
>
> > Mike,
> >
> > Its correct. In Tokyo is 30,800yens while in Osaka its 22,000yens. I
guess
> > from the way its printed Tokyo looks cheaper but its actually not.
> >
> > Virgil
>
> [ excessive quoting removed ]
>
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