Mobile Phones in Japan

Categories: Mobile, WirelessPosted on November 10th, 2006

Japan is frequently several years ahead of the states when it comes to mobile infrastructure and devices. I’ve taken some pictures of a few phones at a mobile phone store in Okayama last night.

My cousin (he lives here) has friends with phones that have 5 megapixel onboard cameras, my puny brand new mobile phone from US has only 1.3, and that forces me to take my Canon Camera around, hopefully in a few years, convergence will let me only take one device: Phone, MP3, and Mobile Communicator

These were ‘demo’ devices, but if you bought it you would get the real authentic one. As I mentioned earlier, mobile technology is still very strong here in Japan.

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Hi Jeremiah,

Regarding mobile phone usage in Asia, isn’t the pricing for land phone service so high that mobile phones provide a more affordable option and text messaging even more so? Hence the rampant adoption of mobile and even more so for text messaging?

Since you’re over there, maybe you can clarify this.

Regards,

Joe Beaulaurier

Posted by Joe Beaulaurier on November 11th, 2006 at 2:28 pm

I’m pretty sure your assumptions are correct. Japan is not setup for a land based physical network, therefore wireless is the way to go. This of course would dictate price.

I’ll see if I can find some additional information, but it may be difficult

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