Astley iPhone Virus: the first virus to infect the popular smart phone platform.

iPhones across Australia lit up with the face of ’80s crooner Rick Astley this week as a Wollongong TAFE student made international headlines for releasing the first virus to infect the popular smart phone platform.
The virus is able to reset the phone wallpaper to display an image of Astley (a practice known as rickrolling) on “jailbroken” iPhones.
These phones are unlocked so users can use non-Apple applications or service providers, and only those who had failed to reset default security passwords were affected.
Ashley Towns, the 21-year-old Australian who has taken credit for the high-tech stunt, wrote on his Twitter page yesterday that he created the virus to raise awareness of security issues related to iPhone passwords.
The student, who lives in Wollongong with his family, told Computerworld that he had no particular vendetta against Apple, and had created the virus out of curiosity and boredom.
“I had just formatted my iPhone and it told me to set the password in bold, big letters and I wondered how many people have actually done that,” he said.
The virus places Astley’s image into smart phones’ iPhone wallpaper with the words “Ikee is never gonna give you up”.
Towns tweets under the name ikeeex and an explanation embedded into the virus source code reads: “people are stupid, and this is to prove it so RTFM. Its not that hards [sic] guys. But hey who cares, its only your bank details at stake.”
In spite of claims by Towns that the worm was easy to remove, a number of iPhone users on the Whirlpool forum complained about its effects, the quantity of bandwidth it may have used, and the possibility of excess data charges.
“Perhaps I discover a way to break into your house. Does that make it acceptable for me to break in, mess the place up, then leave? Did I just do you a service by doing that, exposing the security flaw in the process? No. That would be a ridiculous claim to make,” Adamiam said.
Although the exact number of iPhone users affected by the virus is not known, it could have spread to hundreds of handsets in Australia, said Paul Ducklin, head of technology at Sophos Asia Pacific.
An online poll run by Sophos in response to the incident revealed that 75 per cent of the 721 respondents believed the worm author had done “iPhone users a favour”.
Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at Sophos, said it was a “depressing notion that most people think that doing harm and breaking computer crime laws is a good thing”.
He said every victim of the virus first had to take steps to repair the damage caused by the worm and restore their phone to normal use, and then pay for a potentially large data bill at the end of the month.
“But what’s worst of all is that the code for the worm is now available for anyone to download. The genie is let out of the bottle - and anyone could write a more dangerous version of the worm which could have a much more dangerous payload. My prediction is that we may see more attacks like this in the future,” he said.
The virus followed hot on the trail of a similar attack last week in the Netherlands where a Dutch hacker took over similarly vulnerable iPhones and demanded a small fee to release their data.
Were you affected by the virus? Do you think Ashley Towns did you a favour?

K-Touch V98 Flip Phone Brings You FREE STOP Rotating Shaft Technology Experience.

K-Touch V98 mobile phone is a flip one in design with a metal body plus spray paint, as well as FREE STOP rotating shaft technology. So that its quality is guaranteed. V98 has a 2.8-inch touch screen, and its ergonomic design can ease fingers and shoulders from much pressure, which is truly healthy cell phones.

K-Touch V98 mobile phone comes with gravity sensors from which shaking switching operation can enhance the user experience. Other functions of V98: Supports for EDGE Internet, Bluetooth, JAVA extension, 2 million pixels camera, dual SIM dual standby, e-books, calls attribution to, MP3, MP4, QQ and so on. All these features should satisfy your entertainment needs.

Hot sale: Less than 900RMB to buy a GPS big-screen AMOI N6.

AMOI mobile phones, as a domestic brand, continue to release high quality and low cost China mobile phones, and it also won the majority of domestic brands supporters of all ages. GPS-enabled phones have gradually become the mainstream of phone market. This phone is currently priced at just 899 Yuan, 100 Yuan cheaper than the beginning, and further enhance the cost-effective.

N6 has a size of 105 * 59 * 14.5mm, 115g weight. The main body is in gray-black color, giving a very powerful and calm feeling. A 2.8-inch QVGA screens resolution, 260K color TFT is very large, so the display font is also great, and shows in a very delicate way, which is very helpful to middle-age and bad eyesight people.

N6 has a built-in 2 MP camera which can take photographs with the largest resolution of 1600*1200, and it supports digital zoom and audio video features, a variety of shooting mode selection. Built-in multimedia player supports mp3, WMA, WAV and Midi format music files, and mp4 format video playback, and it can achieve full-screen playback mode in a very good effect.
As for other functions, AMOI N6 has built-in SiRF, the third generation professional satellite navigation chip, 20-channel fast positioning, tracking satellites, built-in spirit Skywalker Figure 6, information-rich, easy to find, free scaling, beautiful interface, with 337 in the country level and above cities, over 2200 County detailed map information, the National Fine road network seamless roaming, 350 facilities in more than one million points of dynamic display of map information, a variety of search methods to download the game, Just arrived calls Firewall: Call Manager built-in mobile securities, Flush to support more than 80 brokerage firms, online trading, dynamic Quotes intelligent optical sensor system, saving private bodyguards

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AMOI N6 using Linux systems coupled with TG3 version Newplus platform, which can be easily developed for the system software. Today its price has fallen to a more reasonable price, friends that interested in GPS can take a look at it.

The price is not a problem – AMOI A616 only sells 388RMB.

The price of LCD has been falling step by step, and the price of AMOI in the market is constantly surprises people by its low price recently. I noted that A616 AMOI China mobile phone only sells 388 Yuan.

AMOI A616 is silver-gray in color with a size of 113.9*49.8*15.3 mm and a weigh of 100g, the screen is a 2.4-inch TFT color screen with a resolution of 176* 220 pixels, on the back equipped with a 2 MP camera, Maximum shoot 1600*1200 pixel images. And it equipped with 2 pens.

AMOI A616 uses the mainstream configure in the camera and expansion, etc: support 320*240,640*480, 1280*1024, 1600*1200; support 3s, 10s delay self-timer support for camera, video camera mode of the two normal, black and white film, sepia photo effects to support the largest 160*128’s audio DV intake and maximum 320*240 video recording against Mjpeg normal, night mode PC Camera function, support for an optional storage location.

AMOI A616 is dual-card single standby, and it has screen handwriting and many other features and diverse entertainment functions, and thousand dollars are still very value now, people who want to purchase China mobile phone can go and take a look at it..

AMOI A616 supports mp4, 3gp, etc. format video playback, and supports audio video capabilities, configured the USB headset interface, phone book can store 500 group contacts, and 1,000 text messages, built-in 4 games, comes with 32MB memory, support for SD card expansion; its standby time is up to 240 hours and the calling time 480 minutes. However, the price of this phone is less than 400 Yuan, so we do not have much to consider: the price is not a problem. And people who want to change your phone recently might think about it.

W71: dual SIM single standby smart phone with QWERTY keyboard.

People will get tired of any cell phone one day, no mater how powerful it is or how stunning or attractive it looks. If you have just got tired of the Symbian-system E71, but still fond of its appearance and the full QWERTY keyboard, what will you do? Maybe today’s W71 can meet your request.

Obviously, this W71 cell phone has copied Nokia E71, so they have similar shapes. Although the 2.2-inch QVGA screen is not as big as common WM phone, it is too hard to make everything perfect indeed.

The phone uses Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system, while the processor is the Marvell PXA 310, the main frequency can reach up to 624MHz, and the internal memory is 128M256M. Of course, it supports the expansion of WiFi Internet access and JAVA expansion. These are not problems.

Its 1.3 MP camera is very impressive with flash light, which is really a progress. Still it is worth mentioning that: W71 supports dual SIM single standby, so you can switch back and forth. It also supports FM radio, which is not easy for an 800 Yuan phone.

ZJ268 breaks Philips Disney Record with its long standby time.

As we all know, Philip is always the king of the long-standby-phone. But since a Chinese-made cell phone ZJ268 was born, Philip became the history. You may ask how long Philip can standby, two months or half a year will. Even so, it’s not the longest one because ZJ268’s standby time is up to 666 days. Incredible! Yes, it’s 666 days rather than 66 days. And such a phone costs only 820RMB, not 8200RMB. Unbelievable, 820RMB and this phone is yours, together with a 4800mAh battery, a data wire, stereo earphone and a 256MB TF card.



The reason for its long standby time is that it uses a battery of 32800 mAh. No wonder it can break the record. And the 6-G namo-technology is fully used in this LEE. The short standby time is not a problem now.

Apart from its long standby time, ZJ268 has other features: TFT resistive touch screen, 3.0 inches, 26K QVGA, dual SIM dual standby, support handwritten and keyboard dual input. Of course, the multi-media functions are not bad too: twin loudspeakers, Mp3 player, equalizer settings. All these enable it to play 3GP, MP4 video with full screen viewing. Nothing is perfect, so its 1.3-megapixels camera is not that perfect. Other basic features are as follows: U-disk, Bluetooth, 64 chord, Mp3 ring tone, picture editor, calculator, to do list, calendar, IP dialing, stopwatch, currency converter, world time, health care management and so on.

With the support of 6G nano-technology, its battery is able to reach 32800 mAh. But the phone is not cumbersome at all. It’s only 115g with a dimension of 114*52*21mm, this weight is almost the same as ordinary China cell phones.

The most mini watch phone in the world only sells 199 USD.

Generally speaking, China watch phones have to use the Bluetooth headset to answer the phone, this mini watch phone is of no exception. Its specially equipped Bluetooth headset will support the stereo sound experience. It is said that this watch phone only sells for 199 U.S. dollars (about 1358 RMB).

So what is your point of view about this mini watch mobile phone? When you're not used to wear watches, you may be wondering that such watch shape design cell phone can give you a convenience or a barrier? As we all know, Samsung and LG have launched watch mobile phone before, but this mini designed one is new to the watch phone market, and there is a nick name of it – W.

No longer after the launch of GD910 of LG and S9110 of Samsung, a new era seems to come soon with the appearance of this mini watch phone in the world made by Kemplar & Strauss. It has a touch screen, with ordinary mobile phones communications functions, although it is very slim, this phone has built-in MP3 player and camera which supports video recording, and built-in games. Its biggest bright spot is large memory up to 4GB which supports microSD card expansion.

Of course, watch phones has to use the Bluetooth headset to answer the phone, it is of no exception. Its specially equipped Bluetooth headset will bring you the stereo sound experience. It only sells for 199 U.S. dollars (about 1358 RMB)., so this phone is not only the smallest watch phone but also very cheap, and interested friends may continue to pay attention to it.

Mobile phones are ‘too complicated’ today.

Martin Cooper, who was the lead engineer of the Motorola team that developed the cell phone, told a privacy conference in Madrid this week that today’s phones try to do many things for too many people.

“Whenever you create a universal device that does all things for all people, it does not do any things well,” said the 80 year-old, who made the first wireless call from a busy Manhattan street corner on April 3 1973.

“Our future I think is a number of specialist devices that focus on one thing that will improve our lives,” said Mr. Cooper, who has previously criticized the iPhone for being overly complicated and hard to use.

“The first cell phone model weighed over one kilo and you could only talk for 20 minutes before the battery ran out, which is just as well because you would not be able to hold it up for much longer,” added the Chicago-born scientist.

However sales figures suggest that consumers are increasingly seeking phones with a range of features.

In 2007, Nokia’s 1100, a straightforward handset nicknamed “Penny”, surpassed the 200-million unit mark, making it the world’s top-selling gadget. But over the past year sales of smart phones - which have some of the same functions as computers, such as internet access and music players - have risen sharply.

Across England, France, Italy, Germany and Spain, figures compiled by GfK, a market research organization, suggest that sales of mobile phone handsets decreased by 10 per cent over the last year, but sales of smart phones have increased by 140 per cent from 3,810,097 to 9,129, 868.
Aaron Rattue, business group director at GfK, said that these days smart phones account for close to one in ten phones bought. “The market has more than doubled in size in 12 months,” he said.

Dr Jon Agar, senior lecturer in science and technology studies at University College London, who wrote Constant Touch: A Global History of the Mobile Phone, added that there was little evidence that people were eschewing complicated technology.

“Martin Cooper’s assertion flies in the face of current trends, and I see no particular evidence to suggest that the trend towards more ‘universal’ mobile phones is going to change direction,” said Dr Agar.

“Mobiles are far more than mere phones - they have the capabilities and flexibilities of a computer. Designers have made use of these capacities, and will continue to do so. The future of technologies is ultimately in the hands of users - and the vast majority of users have historically been loath to add to the very small number of technologies that we carry around with us.”
But Ben Wood, director of research at CCS Insight, which provides market analysis for the communications industry, suggested that the bid to maximize the number of features available on a phone was easing.

He said there had been an “arms race” amongst mobile phone manufacturers, who were competing to add features to their phones such as increased memory and better cameras. But “that technology arms race is starting to slow down now.

“For example, 12 mega pixel cameras are only available at the very high end of the market.”
“Mobile phone shops are starting to sell experiences rather than features,” he continued. “They’ll advertise the top five phones with satnav or the top five camera phones.”
Mr. Wood also added that there would always be a market for the simpler “talk and text phones”.
“Those products will always exist,” he said.

Information resource:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/6509126/Inventor-of-mobile-phones-says-they-have-become-too-complicated.html

The leader of watch phone – PowerDisk MP2008

The cool styling, classic color, coupled with the fashion features: the Internet, making and receiving calls, sending and receiving text messages, listening to music, watching movies, recording, playing games, and other fashion elements like touch, navigation menu, Bluetooth, handwriting input system and so on in one, plus the 1.8-inch high-definition TFT color touch screen - this is the multi-functional watch cell phone PowerDisk MP2008.

This PowerDisk MP2008 mobile phone was launched in October 14, 2007 by WANHUA electronic, and in October 17 it was first displayed at the Hong Kong Electronics Autumn Fair, which attracts a large number of colleagues at home and abroad.

This well-designed watch mobile has combined a variety of functions: Internet access, phone calls, sending and receiving text messages, listening to music, watching movies, recordings, playing games and so on. Arc-shaped case back its shape, black and silver classic mix of calm to the public yet sophisticated. The most valuable is its 1.8-inch screen, which is a temptation to the customer compares to the ordinary 1.3 inches one. People like to play multimedia messages and show photos, so MP2008 has a 1.8-inch 26K color TFT screen for you to create a more open vision, an even more sensational audio-visual enjoyment. What’s more, the TFT material can bring a high-definition video, so that a clearer picture is more subtle, to restore the colors of the real horizon. 1.8-inch high-definition TFT color touch screen not only can set the navigation menu, but also support Bluetooth, at the same time; it has the popular handwriting input system, answering calls, free convenience. These useful functions had made all the operations easier and faster.In addition, PowerDisk MP2008 can support MP3/MP4 with the format of midi, wav, mp3, aac and other mainstream audio formats, you can listen to music at any time to relax tight collapse of the nerve; T-FLASH extended functionality can meet the massive music, movies, photos storage requirements; standard for Mini U interface standard data connection, data transmission, 64 polyphonic ring tones, built-in speaker enable a loud and clear voice, even in a noisy environments you will not miss calls.

In addition, MP2008 also supports e-book reader, photo album, alarm clock and many other features, business cards, phone book management style, the biggest can store 550 phone numbers, business communication and entertainment orderly. 160 minutes of talk time and 100 hours of standby time, so you do not have to worry about the lack of electricity, just enjoy the smooth listening pleasure.

It is worth to mention a feature of PowerDisk MP2008, which is the emergency call. When you need helps from friends in emergencies, you just need to click a button, and then you can send to the designated telephone number to ask for help. Both subtle and fast that it deserves to be your good partners.

As the leader in China watch phone market, its manufacturers, WANHUA electronic company has professional experience of more than 20 years. And we have every reason to believe that it has confidence of constantly pioneering and innovative development ideas, and it will find its own sky, and the upcoming PowerDisk MP2008 watch phone will start a popular in the market as a fashion leader.

M700：The new generation of Bluetooth watch phone.

This is a China watch phone, with a cool design and smooth handwriting input function. And it supports Bluetooth transmission and 2G IF card expansion function. In addition, it offers call vibration and voice recognition function. Icool M700 Bluetooth watch phones are very impressive in their cool design and the various colors, such as black, white and pink:

It is similar to the previous M600.

The core is separate from its strap.

Other features or functions are as follows: MP3, MP4, Short Message, recording function, WAP, handwritten input, Bluetooth, GPRS download, MMS, memory expansion, calls vibration, voice recognition, IP call, calculator, memo, calendar, stopwatch, currency converter, world time, as well as automatic turning on/off settings. So the comprehensive functions can bring phone users a lot of convenience.

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It has a 0.3 MP camera.

It supports the a largest expansion up to 2G

The large screen is very impressive.

It supports handwriting function with a good recognition.

It is coupled with Bluetooth earphones.

China M9: A stunning slide phone.

Today I’d like to introduce DAXIAN M9 +, a stunning slid phone. It has a metal body that looks very delicate and sophisticated. This is very cool and stylish but not stinks. Although it’s metal, it was polished smoothly and it feels very mild rather than metal’s cold and flu feeling in hand. The slide adapts metal tracks, sliding sonorous, powerful, and the resilience just right! The design of the keyboard is more chic that it is eye catching and full of visual impact!

Basic Information:
Network Frequency: GSM tri-band 900/1800MHz
Dimensions & Weight: 114 * 58 * 12MM / 105 g
Screen: 240*320px pixels, 260K color 2.2-inch TFT
Camera Pixels: Main 2 MP CMOS
Memory cards: TFlash

Important features: speakers, bass effects, MP3, MP4 video playback, e-books, Bluetooth stereo, Bluetooth voice...
Standard Accessories: 2 lithium batteries (1200MAH), charger, headset, data cable, 256TF card, leather
Body Color: Black, Brown, Red
Supported languages: Traditional Chinese, English, French, Arabic and other languages
LCD display: 2.2-inch screen; 260K color; Resolution: 240*320px
Ring tone: 64 chords, ring tones formats: mp3, midi
Music player: mp3 music player and background play, support equalizer, speakers, bass works well
Video player: playback 3GP, MP4, 3GP/MP4 full-screen playback
Camera: 2 MP camera, features; packing 200 pixels, support Sound MP4 video filming depends on the time
Memory: 760K maximum support 2G TF card expansion, support expansion
Data transmission: U disc / data cable direct read, Bluetooth File Transfer, Bluetooth voice, Bluetooth stereo
Image format: jpg, gif
Phone book: 500 group contacts card phone book, ring tones, group ring tones, available to download MP3 ring tones
SMS/MMS: 200 SMS storage capacity to support MMS
Power on/off: user-definition of switching machine, automatic setting
Alarm clock: 5 groups alarm clock alarm clock, can set MP3 ring tones, can set from Monday to Sunday alarm clock
Built-in games: three ordinary games

Other features: MP3, MP4, hands-free calls, SMS group sending, Voice recorder, WAP, Bluetooth, GPRS download, MMS, memory expansion, e-books, cool appearance, calculator, memo, calendar, IP dial, stopwatch, currency converter, world time, health management for the network
Network Frequency: GSM tri-band 900/1800MHz
Calling time: 150-220 minutes
Standby time: 150-240 hours
Launch time: 2007.11.27
Appearance: slider phone
Dimension: 114 * 58 * 12MM
Weight: 105G
Optional Color: Black, Brown, Red








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HTC Tattoo G4: a mobile with stunning looks only sells 2450 RMB.

These days, HTC released its newest Android-system phone named Tattoo G4. Its meaning is different from G1’s and G3’s, Tattoo G4 represents the tattoo. Although G4 has no advantages in the hardware over the old generations, it is very eye-catching in its beautiful design and its low price of 2450 RMB. People who are interested in it can keep your eyes on it.


The HVGA screen (320*480 pixels) has installed the Qualcomn MSM7201A processor with the main frequency of 528 MHz, and its 192MB RAM and 512MB ROM also work.



As for the details, HTC click has tried its best to be fashion and simple. Meanwhile, the MicroSD memory card slot is set in the left side, while at the top are the 3.5mm earphone connection and a cell phone ornaments hole; at the bottom there is MiniUSB data line charging interface. Back in the fuselage is the dragon pattern and the build-in 2.0-megapixels camera, no LED flash light and self-portrait mirror. At the right side of the lens are the speakers.

EP2520: an excellent 2 MP, steel and water-proof watch phone

Today we are talking about EP2520, an excellent watch phone different from previous mobile phones. EP2520 adopts all-steel body design which looks both classic and stylish. Its 1.3 inches 128*160 pixel 26K OLED can simulate the traditional physical dial and support touch operation. In addition, EP2520, as a watch phone, has a light spot - water proof (the level and ability of water proof is still unknown).

EP2502 supports multi-language interfaces, including English, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Turkish, Portuguese, French, Thai, Dutch, German, Russian, Vietnamese and Chinese, etc. So it is an amazing degree of internationalization.

EP2520 supports 64 chord ring tone, Mp3/Mp4 player. It has a 2 MP camera and offers microSD card expansion service, and its memory is up to 2GB. EP2502 also supports Bluetooth transmission


More watch phone information: http://www.soundasia.com

This phone is weird and evil !

HONGBO V8 is famous as the most evil phone in the history, and it’s very popular in a number of digital forums. As stated in the product description, it has an extremely high technology in monitoring. In addition to simultaneously receive four different frequency bands for wireless camera signals, all-round monitoring of targets, it is also a killer in many people’s mind.

This phone looks nothing special but it has implicit subtleties, not only the 4 wireless cameras can receive real-time monitoring screen, the batteries are also have hidden small pinhole camera which can collect images within 100 meters. The monitoring capabilities are so powerful that it could be a challenge to the personal privacy.

There is a highly covert pinhole camera, hidden in the distribute battery's serial number and bar code. This camera can be implemented remote wireless monitoring function, effective distance range of up to 100 meters, the signal transmitted to mobile phones penetrate three walls, it also records images and sound of high quality.

The emergence of this evil phone has set a big bomb in the public. If the battery is put on the company's office or a university hostel, absolutely no one would doubt about it and will not pay much attention to it. Then there will be no privacy. Even if the camera in the battery was found, you can tell a lie that it is a bright red light when charging. Once such phone is used maliciously, the consequences are very terrible; maybe there will be more privacy exposed like Yanzhao door.

The battery has a video camera that can transmit images via wireless transmission, when you plug this camera to charging seat, it can not only charge, but also can be used as videotaping, and then disguised it as charging, which is so evil.

More phones in soundasia. Enjoy your shopping~

The super cute Mickey A5120.

Remember the cartoons growing with us? Remember the cute and smart Mickey Mouse? That guys with a pair of big ears and wears only overalls, yes, that’s the little guy named Mickey. We can see from this Mickey A5120 our childhood playmates - lovely Mickey. And we can find our childhood in this Mickey A5120 phone. The lovely Mickey, accompanied with the white powder sparkling in the sun round mirror, wow, that’s very attractive to our girls. What’s more, the circular rotated 360 ° outer cover has captured your hearts of following fashion trends. Of course, Mickey is not only charming in its appearance, it also has other functions: dual SIM, dual standby, magic voice calls, e-books and so on.

The main functions:
Language: simplified Chinese, English and so on.
LCD display: 2.0 inches; 26K color; PX: 240*320
Ring tone: 64 chord, format: Mp3, Midi
Music player: Mp3 and Background play, supports equalizer, and can be used to download MP3 ring tones.
Video player: Mp4, 3GP, full-screen viewing
Radio: support
Camera: HD pixel; support for HD capture, audio video image, the size of the memory card according to the size of the
Memory: a largest expansion up to 2G
Data transmission: USB, U-disk, Bluetooth
Picture format: jpg, gif
Game platform: build-in games


The basic functions:
Phone book: 500 groups, ring tones, group ring tones, and can be used to download MP3
SMS / MMS: 200 SMS, support MMS
Power control: support custom Switch machin
Alarm clock: 5 Group alarm clock alarm clock, you can set MP3 ring tones, and can set the alarm clock from Monday to Sunday
Built-in games: 5 ordinary games
Other functions: ordinary game MP3, MP4 function, speakerphone, Short Message , sound recording function, WAP function, radio, Bluetooth, GPRS download, memory expansion, e-books, dual SIM dual standby dual Bluetooth, attribution to inquiries, calendar, to-do, alarm clock, calculator, exchange rate, world time, calls attribution to show.


The basic information:
Network: GSM 900/1800MHz
Calling time: 120-180 minutes
Standby time: 100-160 hours
Launch time: April 30th, 2009-
Appearance: rotation
Weight: 100g
Color: pink, blue, black

More cell phone information : http://www.soundasia.com/

My first post!

It is November 6th, 2009. My first day in the mobile-melody~ I would like to share my excited emotion with you guys :)