(keitai-l) Re: Best phone?

From: Jani PATOKALLIO <jpatokal_at_iki.fi>
Date: 08/31/00
Message-ID: <39AE0FF4.75004AED@iki.fi>
David Jones wrote:
> I'd like to know which bilingual phone i-mode is
> the best in Japan.  I am
> considering getting a Nokia NM502i.  Is this a
> good model?  All comments are
> appreciated.

I am under the impression that the NM502i remains the _only_
bilingual i-mode phone.  There are a number of (older)
bilingual EZweb phones though.

Anyway, as an NM502i owner myself, I'd say that it's pretty good
as a phone but clunky for i-mode, primarily due to the tiny size
of the screen.  If you're going to actually use i-mode a lot,
then do what everybody else in Japan is doing and get one of
those clamshell models that have a comparatively huge display
(a luxurious 20x10 characters or so).

Cheers,
-- 
Jani PATOKALLIO / jpatokal@iki.fi / +81 90 7722 3557
Sanpo Laboratory, Mechano-Informatics Dept., University of Tokyo
ヤニ・パトカリオ / jani@sanpo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp / 090 7722 3557
東京大学、工学系研究料、機械情報工学料、算法設計研究室
Received on Thu Aug 31 10:48:27 2000