Just like the USA, cell phones are everywhere. Its rare you see anyone without one in their hand, if not talking then usually playing a game. The phones I see everywhere have a much squarer-look to them, not the rounded flip-top design popular in the US. But the biggest difference is that, in the 10 days I’ve now been here, I am yet to here one cell phone ring. I asked Aki last night and he said that it is polite to have the ringer turned off. Too bad we can’t have that in the US, save us from hearing the latest Britney tune butchered by tinny ringer going off all the freaking time.