Filed under: HandheldsAlthough Lenovo’s slick IdeaPad U8 has been floating around in prototype form for a while, it only made its formal debut at the Olympics recently, and now it’s starting to appear on Chinese websites — Zol.com.cn has a huge unboxing and review, while Yesky says it’ll be priced at 4,999 yuan, or about $731. That’s a little more than the “smartphone pricing” we were promised, but we’re guessing those of you looking to import this Asia-only piece were likely always expecting to throw down some coin for it. Tons more pics in the read links — we’re not going to try and depend on machine translation to understand the review, anyone care to give us the gist?[Via Pocketables] Read - IdeaPad U8 unboxing and review Read - Yesky pricing infoPermalink | Email this | Comments

Picture it: Italy, 1975 A shortage of coins in Italy in 1975 prompted the vandalism
of thousands of pay phones - thieves began breaking public phones in order to steal
coins. In 1976, a vending machine manufacturer and supplier called SIDA came up
with a way to avoid this and introduced the first magnetic strip international phone
cards so people wouldn’t need to use coins to make a call. But they could only be
used on certain phones, as people were required to insert the card into the phone
to use them, and many of the cards kept jamming.

calling card