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To Prevent Upskirts, Japanese iPhone 3G Always Alerts When Taking Photos

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Why Japan is at once one of the most hilarious and one of the most disgusting places on earth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDSdcxzz6uE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enjo_k%C5%8Dsai

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrAyXyqCXeY&NR=1 This is even funnier :D It would be cool to make my toilet like that, i could get my head up for some fresh air.

Countadown keishi!

The two sweetest words in the Japanese language!

I don't even have to see the video to laugh when I hear it!

Countadown keishi!

I found an even better one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAEaengvr2w

Presumably people who like taking upskirt shots won't use the new iPhone and less nefarious iPhone users will all have to suffer the obnoxious shutter sound. This is nothing more than tokenism and hence I won't be dispensing any brownie points.

If upskirts are so endemic to Japan that the manufacturers are taking proactive measures with iPhones, its safe to assume they will be doing likewise with other camera phones as well.

As far as I'm aware all manufactures of camera phones are required to produce a noise when taking a snap

Presumably there are other digital cameras that do not make a sound when taking a picture and these are the ones that are used. My gripe isn't with Apple but the legislation which I imagine hasn't really amounted to much.

my possibly wrong understanding isn't that this is law, but that consumers boycott phones without this "feature"

And that makes perfect sense. In an environment where the typical phone makes a noise, carrying a phone that takes photos silently is like wearing a sign around your neck that says "pervert".

The bad news for birdwatchers everywhere is that this trick doesn't work with binoculars.

A friend who worked at a japanese phone manufacturer told me that they have to have this feature to be able to market it.... In the two years I have been there I never saw a phone that didn't make a shutter sound (and god how obnoscious my phone's shutter sound was)...

What about small digital cameras, like pencams?

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