Last week I read an article on the JapanTimes
Online website about the cost of service in Japan for the new iPhone. Both KDDI and SoftBank ”will
launch a high-speed mobile data communications service using the lte network
when the new iPhone is launched, both setting the flat-rate data charge for the
lte service for the iPhone at ¥5,460 per month. The two companies will offer
the 32-gigabyte model at ¥10,320 and the 64-gigabyte model at ¥20,640.” I’m sure I don’t need anything that costs
that much.
In another phone related article, JapanTimes Online reported that people living in Tokyo pay the
highest smartphone bills among seven major cities in the world. According to the Internal Affairs and
Communications Ministry, the reason for this is the expensive data
communications fees and yen’s strength.
The average monthly bill for someone in Tokyo who talks 61 minutes and
sends and receives 438 email messages was 7357 yen. Dusseldorf was in second
place with the average monthly bill at the equivalent of 7012 yen, and New York
at 6493 yen. London, Paris, and
Stockholm were each between 3000 and 4000 yen, and Seoul at 2702 yen. The exchange rate is a little over 78 yen to
the US dollar right now.
The Queen’s progress
Elizabeth could have afforded the new iPhone, but I don’t think
she would have wanted one.
I’ve been working on her cuffs.
Most of the stitches are done with white perle cotton #12, so you may
not realize how much detail there is. There are ten steps to each cuff!
2 comments:
10 steps to a cuff! Elizabeth may well be your magnum opus. She is beautiful.
Elizabeth is beautiful! An iphone cannot make that!
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