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...Heuet's case, except for the most basic of emotions (happy, sad, surprised) his two-dots-and-two-squiggles faces aren't up to the task of expressing the subtleties of emotion present in a book based entirely on subtitles of emotion. Consequently, he relies on large chunks of text to supply the emotion. One page of eleven panels includes seven with all text...
...after all, the text was written by Marcel Proust, who, based strictly on my experience with this book, justly enjoys his reputation as a very fine writer. There are lovely passages that evoke the original's themes of memory, loss, sensation, nature, and the ability of art to make all of this clear. The famous madeleine sequence, for example, has been adapted with great care: keeping the narrative visually-oriented, including wisps of steam that cross over the panels, while using passages of text to evoke the feeling of not only the events but the book itself: "Will it reach...
...Text messaging in Europe costs far less than it does in the U.S. Another reason for the superiority of European and Japanese mobile telephony is better transmission standards. The Europe-wide GSM standard has long allowed a range of uses that are only just becoming widely available in the U.S.; the Japanese firm NTT DoCoMo, with its i-mode technology, has made mobile Internet access available to millions. But there's more to it than that...
...contrast, the major phone companies haven't targeted kids, and the start-ups that tried to, like Modo, got nowhere. Why not? Chatting is just about the only thing that most of the miserably antiquated U.S. cell phones are good for. In Europe, by contrast, text messaging is almost as significant a use as talk, while in Japan, pink-haired, platform-soled teenagers play cute little games with each other through their cell phones...
...world's richest market, some of the most popular applications of Internet technology seem singularly unsuited to a mobile phone, even when the much heralded third-generation phones are in common use. A phone's display is never going to be big enough to handle the rich displays of text and graphics of the American news and financial-services sites. And dare we ask: Who's going to use a phone to download porn...