There’s a huge market for phone straps in Japan, and some of the most elaborate loops we’ve seen in Kyoto are attached to any manner of bizarro paraphernalia: Pikachu figurines, glo sticks, miniature Hanshin Tigers baseball bats, and lots of fluffy little animals. Even Japanese businessmen are often seen with cute junk attached to their 3G phones. This is Japan.
Anyway, since most 3G phones here have large memory capacities for MP3 junkies — and yet, unhelpfully, most earphones provided with new phones are resolutely crap — FSC has stepped in to kill two problems with one strap. These new straps, you see, plug into the earphone jacks of 3G handsets and provide a standard headphone jack, which enables you to use your Shure equipment for listening to Cornelius’ latest on your Softbank 705SC. And more great news: the straps are available in six colours, at just Y580 (£2.50) a loop. Nifty!
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