(keitai-l) Re: BlackBerry's launch in Japan

From: <ben_at_benmiller.com>
Date: 09/19/06
Message-ID: <30d4ca980609190531q36bc5ceew81698cfe93cf43f1@mail.gmail.com>
The market may not be massive, but it will probably generate high
margins. Think in terms of crackberries for the financial community.

At some future point after the cream has been skimmed (getting the
most revenue frm the lease price-sensitive consumers for the least
marketing spend and infrastructure investment) are there reasons why
the Japanese-language input product available in the US
(http://www.namikiteru.com/en/index1.html) would not be relatively
easy to implement?

On 9/19/06, martyn_williams@idg.com <martyn_williams@idg.com> wrote:
> That's correct - DoCoMo published the specs today. Japanese Web and e-mail
> content can be viewed but cannot be inputted. Input is only in English.
> You'd think, when DoCoMo held up the release of the 6630 for a year to make
> the software just right they'd have thought this one through a little more.
> Perhaps there is a massive untapped English market for Blackberry that
> we're not aware of!
Received on Tue Sep 19 15:31:18 2006