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Any intelligent person would say that idiocy knows no borders.

So just keep clogging the highways with cars, keep clogging the three airports of NYC and Newark with short-haul flights that inevitably have problems and delay every flight after and keep new airlines from flying in for want of slots, just to avoid the totalitarianism of the dreaded TRAIN. My god.

Any intelligent person would say that idiocy knows no borders.

So just keep clogging the highways with trains, keep clogging the three airports of NYC and Newark with short-haul flights that inevitably have problems and delay every flight after and keep new airlines from flying in for want of slots, just to avoid the totalitarianism of the dreaded TRAIN. My god.

The "less money" advantage disappears once you take a moment to think about what, exactly, the auto insurance companies will do in response to such a thing. That and differences in capability of various cars. Yes, an American autobahn sounds lovely. Probably not practical or affordable compared to trains. Especially if America can do it as cheap as China can- if an unrestricted one-way NY-Boston ticket only cost $30 on high-speed rail kiss goodbye to air competition and most likely driving.

@Dern- not if priced equivalently to Chinese rail travel.

No one cares if it's a 9.3-hour journey if an unrestricted one-way ticket is less than $100. Bam, that's the tourist market right there, and possibly some of the corporate market too.

@whySoSerious They've been making them in Japan for ages. Take a look at the SH-03B to see a similar model for Japan. Notice how much better it looks and acts. Hope this one goes over well- they have a lot of potential, and I'd like to see an American edition of the SH-10B (or SH-07A) too.

@ToniCipriani What do you mean "back then"? They still do for KDDI. But that's not like Google and the Nexus One, it's just a cellphone carrier, like saying they make phones for AT&T. More interestingly, KDDI is a CDMA carrier- if they wanted they have the capability to get back into the American/Canadian CDMA market instead of limiting themselves to GSM-based providers.

Now they had a lull in providing phones for DoCoMo. Nothing between the SO906i and the upcoming SO-01B (the Japanese name for the X10). All CDMA. Makes you wonder why Verizon's not trying to get them to provide phones for them...

@NewL ...you haven't been to Japan, have you? SE makes wonderful CDMA phones, just not for the US. For some reason they don't want to sell them outside Japan even though, say, the Bravia U1 + Verizon would pwn just about any other dumbphone Verizon sells.

@justineromaz I take issue with the "making baby steps into the mobile phone market" bit. Lenovo's been shamelessly copying Sharp, Panasonic, and NEC's Japan-only designs, stuffing cheaper hardware into them, and selling them at bargain prices for a long time now. This is a baby step into the market with something entirely of their own making, yes, but they've been selling phones longer than that.

@yoko1324 And I can't disagree more. We need more of this because otherwise Verizon is going to be screwing people over by "virtue" of being the only carrier with coverage at all in some places. And this is the first I've actually seen the government intervening in business affairs. If you're "way past tired" of "seeing it all", where did the FCC intervene before, pray tell?

@(Unverified) I see you've never tried to get a Korean phone working on Verizon before. Same CDMA frequencies, same ESNs, Verizon just wants to push their own backwards phones on you and thus won't let you activate a Korean phone without jumping through hoops that the average customer can't go through.