The iPhone? Almost every major high-end audiophile level speakers (those that cost 10K each)? Where do you think your computers are made now days? The Chinese is catching up and only bigots and idiots are saying all this BS. You freaks are only going to diss them and make them work that much harder to improve.

The only reason why GM (and VW) is doing well is the continuous subconscious hatred for the Japanese and their cars in the minds of most Chinese. Don't pat yourself on the back yet. If the Chinese public really know how the American public (like the racist haters around here) feel about China, then things will change. Once the pain of WWII eases among the younger generation and the domestic auto industry improved to a level of international competitiveness, GM will go down hill yet again.

I want GM to survive and be successful, but it just goes to show that Autoblog and 99.9% of its readers are utterly clueless about the Chinese auto market.

There will also be millions of Korean drama fans watching this show, because Dan Henney is in it. I would think that this fanbase is larger than moonlight fanbase, since Korean drama is #1 in Asia and in places like Kurdistan. Of course, that's outside of the world-view of this site since most people here have no idea who Dan is or how incredibly popular he is around the world. I will be watching this show too - and I have stopped watching American drama years ago - just to see Dan Henney on American TV.

I'd say based on the publicity it generated Nintendo has done an excellent marketing job. Think about it, would any of you have bothered doing MARKETING RESEARCH for Nintendo if it wasn't for this name? If it was a normal, techie name like would anyone have cared beyond a day or two? Look at all this discussion about Nintendo's next console! This is kind of publicity MS can't get with a billion dollars. You might be bitchin' that it's a dumb name, but in reality it's just a controversial name which forces discussion. Now everyone, gamer or non-gamers alike, will get the news of Nintendo's new console. People don't buy console for the name or even the specs; people by consoles for the games. If they get the games part right, it could just do the improbable: outsell both Sony and MS.

While most of you are busy hatin', I'll give kudos to Nintendo marketing dept. GREAT publicity stunt. The name forces the mindset and the spotlight for video gaming back to Nintendo, at a time when almost everyone has written them off. Any Hollywood types will tell you, any publicity is great publicity.

@Archijs

Latvian Children earn their gadgets? You mean like learning how to steal car from Finland and "export" it to Latvia for parts and pleasure? Yeah we know about that gig too.

Not that I'm so pro-American or anything, but using Latvia, one of the poortest and least well-run of the former Soviet-bloc as example of intelligence is a bit of a stretch.

BTW, I think Apple sucks ass for doing this. Just arrogance at work. It's not like they never had to deal with children u know... they have dominated the educational market every since the Apple II days. I'll bet there are tons of other example of this type of "customer service". They got so arrogant with their hold over the dumb kiddies that they couldn't care less about this future customer crap. They only want the mac-freaks and the artys-type buying their little nichy Macs so this kids can go F herself. If she grow up to be one of our fangirls then she can live with the insult anyway.

Hahaha... so many so-called "liberal" people bought into the fandom one of the most secretive, tightly-controled, authoritatian, and brain-washing organization in the world, and they all ended up buying all their over-priced crap and hating Microsoft! Gogo Apple Fanboys!

Anyone who said anything bad about Asian drivers should actually try to drive in an Asian city, especially large ones like Taipei or Dehli. I doubt any one used to American pussy-ass traffic can survive even for a few minutes. Everyone there has to drive superbly while dealing with millions of taxi cabs and billions of bikes, day in and day out, without hitting anyone. Gosh the frigging American ignoramus.

Even you AA's beating up on other Asian drivers: have YOU guys drove in whatever country your parent's from? Back home your mom will always take public transportation, but in the US she's forced to drive, especially in places like LA. Only the best drivers survive in the streets of Asia. Others takes the bus or the MTR.

Taiwan does't usually get the latest HTC phones. In fact the Dopod 838 (Wizard) was introduced several month after European debute and just 5 months (including delay) than N.A. introduction. To be only 5 months ahead of the US is almost like a slap in the face for an Asian country, especially one that's a leader in mobile technology. Not to mention the fact that they get to pay more as well. I guess that HTC heard the complaints and finally released a cool phone in Taiwan before anywhere else, and the PCHOME special even includes a friggin HTC t-shirt, as that will make it up.

All that said, to compare the V3/Razr with this phone is a joke. The Star Trek can do 100x more thing than that chick phone. It's not even in the same league.

Why would anyone question the use of this? Bigger screen is always better. They just have to make it usable and not a battery killer and many people would want it.

That's the difference between the US and the rest of the world, especially Asia, in term of Mobile Tech. No one would be anything but extremely excited in Korea about this tech, while American users would diss it first and ignore it until everyone else has it. That kind of attitude is perhaps one reasons the US is often 3 or 4 genereations behind in term of mobile technology versus the rest of the world.

Great! Right about time. Looks like JAXA is not sitting idle while China sends one ShenZhou after another to space. This is not simply putting Gundam in space no more; this is about a Space Race between Japan and China. Look for the Korean govn't to pitch a bunch of money just to keep up. Most likely they'll piggy back on the Chinese space program for their own slice of Moon Colony.

American flag? That's probably the first thing the Chinese will uproot when they setup the first Moon Colony with HUMAN BEINGs. The Japanese can send all the robot or Gundam they'd want, but it's no true colony unless human can live there for a long period s of time. Yeah, cus of our govn't lack of true Space Initiatives and the lack of interest for Space and Robotic technologies from our youngsters (just look at the sarcasm on this page), the Moon will be carved up between Asian powers. While they're building Lunar Tokyo or Lunar Hong Kong, the Merkin kiddies can debate about whether the frigging flag meant we own the moon. Yeehaw!

DTMFreq: at least slam the right fantasy: it's all about Gundam, not transformers. It's also quite strange for someone who comment on engaget to throw the word nerd around as an insult.

And it's easy to think this is a pipe dream, but most people probably don't know how intensely Japan and China are interested in Space-related technology. China wants a moon colony in 2020; and if their economy keep growing at the same pace they will do it. Japan wants to build large space-stations for the longest time. Both of these projects are staffed by Gundam dreaming engineers and fanboys. Do you think it's too far-fetched to build robotic suits to help with building of these large-scale projects? Only if you're a robot-fearing American I guess. :)