nick may wrote:
>>On Feb 15, 2005, at 4:58 PM, Ken Chang wrote:
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>>and now they are the world's most advanced markets, the #1 and #2.
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>I just don't accept this. Define "world's most advanced market". If you
>want a phone that will provide an "office in your pocket" - the JP
>market is way behind the UK market, as far as I can see...
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indeed. this was one of the bad points i forgot to include in the voda v
docom debate. the operating systems on Japanese phones seem old fashioned.
>Yeh - there are lots of cute boutique phones. Nice cameras, Etc. Bugger
>all use to me, for one.
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>Bluetooth is still rare in Japan. Phones that sync with Macs are still
>rare. Phones with really good standards compliant calendering
>facilities are rare.
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from http://www.apple.com/isync/devices.html
"Japan Over 110 phones from DoCoMo <http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/>, KDDI
<http://www.kddi.com/>, and Vodafone <http://www.vodafone.jp/> may be
synced with purchase of cable from Reudo <http://www.reudo.co.jp>."
it is silly that you have to buy a cable to sync and have not bluetooth.
saving that though, have you ever tried syncing a sonyericcson to pc
outlook using the god awful xtnd software? it's not easy. with a mac, of
course its a piece of cake, but of all the many European phones i have
had, only Siemens was comparable in ease of syncing.
docomo phones with miniSDs can export the calendar/phonebook to the card
then import to outlook through an sd usb card reader, but that's a bit
of a pain to do. the new 901i series does come with a much upgraded pc
sync software kit.
> PDA/phones are rare to non-existent.
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again true. i was shocked to find that so many business Japanese people
still use paper filofaxs. it is an odd fact that pda's aren't very
popular here especially considering what a busy bunch of people the
Japanese are.
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