Monday, February 2, 2009

Mobile phones in Japan 1



I used to stay in the US for business around a year. I had moble phone to communicate, but the pohone was only for verbal communication.

No mailing function was avairable.

That was almost 8 years ago.




I settled Japan returning from the US, I started using Japanese mobile phones.


Japanese phones are very originative and stylish, though they are not that popular in the world.
The industry has been developing ever since it was released to our daily lives.
We have three major carriers, Docomo, Au and Softbank. They have improved and developed their original services and monthly fee options.

According to a survey, Docomo customers are satisfied with its good quality of talking condition and a large area of it.
The popular I-Phones are sold only at Softbank, though they are not working in full scale. The functions are limited. Softbank is also famous for a reasonable monthly fee. The cheapest basic fee is 980 yen (about $10) per month.
Au has stylish phones and famous for good quality in music play.

There are camera phones and TV phones.
Camera phone takes with 5.1 mega pixels. It takes very good quality pictures and ones with 8.1 megapixels are available at shores from this fall.
Another has so called “One-Seg (1 Seg)” function. You can watch TV with good view on your phone.

Three carriers are quite competitive to attract users with better equipment and services. That is why; Japanese phone service and quality have gotten better and better.
Of course, it is still improving and getting better.

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