Karaoke on the mobile phone

Last Sunday, we reported about taxis in Taiwan that allowed passengers to sing Karaoke, and we didn't realise that a similar concept actually exists in Malaysia already, however, here, you can sing Karaoke on your mobile phone. Celcom, one of Malaysia's largest mobile operator, introduced the service in December 2003 for those subscribers with a GPRS enabled handset.

Last month, in May 2004, Vodafone introduced such service in Japan -

We haven't heard anybody in Malaysia singing Karaoke on the mobile phone - or may be it is done in the jams, and with the car windows closed, we do not hear the singing, what might be a blessing -, but it could take off in Japan - Japanese love Karaoke (is this a prejudice?). Their webpage promotes it as follows: "You download backing tracks to the phone from the web, plug the handset into your TV, and sing into the mouthpiece. Hey presto, voice plus music issue forth from the TV speakers. Fun at parties! Just don't invite us." (http://www.textually.org/ringtonia/archives/003823.htm)