(keitai-l) Re: smartphones in Japan (was: Fukuoka Kyushu 3G Vodafone coverage)

From: nick may <nick_at_kyushu.com>
Date: 05/17/05
Message-Id: <c6019b3fa2639b2ca7417d1ba9195a5e@kyushu.com>
Hi

No - by "locked down" I am referring to the lock placed on the software 
of the phone to prevent one from installing applications or certain 
data types UNLESS they have been purchased through the carrier.

In other words, I can't play the music I own on the phone, I have to 
buy it again from the carrier - and can only install apps that the 
carrier wants to allow me to install...

As for my experience with Japanese consumers - the 702NK and so on 
certainly have a slower interface than some "Japanese phones", but I 
have got good feedback from people who have played with it.

As things stand at present though, it has been crippled by Voda. So it 
has all the disadvantages of a smartphone (slow interface, for example 
- in the "painting pixels on the screen" sense) with few of the 
advantages... One can't expect the average Japanese consumer to buy 
such crippled phones. The only reason *I* bought it was because I 
wanted the capacity for bluetooth iSync with a Mac - and that is still 
not available...

I suspect Voda is simply FRIGHTENED of introducing a decent, uncrippled 
smart-phone to the Japanese market.

Nick



On May 17, 2005, at 1:34 PM, Arnold P. Siboro wrote:

I don't understand what was meant by "non-locked" nokia, were you
talking about SIM lock? 
Received on Tue May 17 08:08:56 2005