Quote:TOKYO - A prestigious Japanese university is giving away hundreds of iPhones, in part to use its Global Positioning System to nab students that skip class.

Truants in Japan often fake attendance by getting friends to answer roll-call or hand in signed attendance cards. That's verging on cheating since attendance is a key requirement for graduation.

Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo is giving Apple Inc's iPhone 3G to 550 students in its School of Social Informatics, which studies the use of internet and computer technology in society.

The gadget will work as a tool for studies, but it also comes with GPS, a satellite navigation system that automatically checks on its whereabouts - a convenient way to prove attendance.

Students who skip class could still fake attendance by giving their iPhone to a friend who goes to class. But youngsters aren't likely to lend their mobile phones, which are packed with personal information and email, according to the university.

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Other universities, including Stanford University and Duke University in the US, use the iPhone in their programs. Aoyama Gakuin signed a deal earlier this month with Softbank Corp, exclusive iPhone vendors in Japan.

The number of students using the iPhone is expected to reach 1,000 in the program - the first time the iPhone is being used on such a scale at a Japanese university.

The iPhone will be used to relay course materials, lectures, videos and tests. The university hopes students will develop software applications and other lifestyle uses for the phone.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/new...d=10575661

feinicks Wrote:I'd skip schools so that I would be absent on the day they hand out iPhones...

Are you a retard?

I don't think I've ever skipped school before anyway, So I guess I can get a free iPhone even though I'm not interested in one.

Sparker Wrote:I don't think I've ever skipped school before anyway, So I guess I can get a free iPhone even though I'm not interested in one.

wait till you get out of highschool, living on your own for the first time and it becomes SO EASY to stay in bed all day with the chick you brought home the night before ;)  Then see what your thoughts are on going to class or tapping that donkey

(This post was last modified: 01/06/2009 03:51 AM by SchmilK.)

You don't need an iPhone to understand that school is is the best thing there is,. O_o

School is the best thing there is,.. .

For those who still don't understand,. i say chip'm!! or an iPhone and explosive device,. once separated from iphone,. BOEM!