Sony's So-net VOD HDTV box with FeliCa
By Ryan Block 
posted Apr 24th 2006 11:44AM
posted Apr 24th 2006 11:44AM
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Black mac mini? haha
Please try not to use the word "ginormous" ever again. Please use a thesaurus if you need help finding a suitable replacement. Please.
Johnny,
get over yourself and put away the red pen. This is a blog, not the NY Times, they can and will use slang terms, misspell things, and even make punctuation errors if they so please.
Apple designers should get a cut of the profits from this one.
I will never buy *anything* from Sony. Ever. Again.
That is all.
Felica/Suica is amazing if you ever used it.
I have it in my cell phone in Japan, basically I can use my cellphone to be like a smartpass to get on the subway by just waving my phone over the gate. Also been seeing vending machines that accept it now, and I also use it like a credit card at a bunch of places.
>>I will never buy *anything* from Sony. Ever.
Thank you for your useless comment, Josh. Now go suck cock on Digg & Slashdot.
Ag, me too.
I use FeliCa daily, as well as buying downloads and items online using the exact same FeliCa reader in the picture.
It's truly becoming a standard here, many shopping centres are now "EDY Up!", which means each and every store lets you pay by FeliCa, very cool.
@Ag and Deluxe.
Yea, FeliCa is really amazing. I love using Suica on trains, vending machines, and at Family Mart. Hahaha. Sometimes I go out of my way just to go use it. I will never get bored of tapping my wallet to buy something :P
It's one of the things I'm going to miss so much when I go back to Canada :/
So-net is indeed the ISP subsidiary of Sony, but business-wise So-net has little to do with Sony Corporation. This Engadget entry omits, for instance, the fact that the box was developed/manufactured by a
start-up called Sentinel, with no connection with Sony. The So-net announcement was for a trial and So-net representative said there is no definitive plan
to launch the service or sell the box as is. So there won't be no profit due Apple desingers (to Comment #4). The racist comment by "Tom Cruise" of Comment #5 only proves the low intelligence level and lack of appreciation for history of electronics of the one who posted it.
Supa Idei-san, that information was not immediately available when I wrote this from machine translation. I'll look into it, thanks.
Best, Ryan
We have a great invention called ATM Visa/Mastercard Debit Cards in the U.S. It's really caught on here in the past 10 years. I can use it to buy post office stamps, coffee, books, clothes, groceries, and even BART Subway tickets, geez...I could go on and on and on!
Sorry, I don't need another stinking card to carry around in my wallet, so keep your Felica Piece of Shit in Japan...we don't need it here.