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Face Off: iPhone 3G and Japanese cellphones

iPhone 3G provided by Softbank on coming 11th July will be the first iPhone in Japan. Since Jobs’ announcement, there are bunch of Japanese medias and blogs have been discussing if iPhone 3G is worth buying.

To clarify how iPhone and the latest Japanese cellphones spec are different, Asiajin called for comments on what functionalities they have/want/use, to potential Japanese iPhone buyers on Comparison Chart site Narabe. Here is the result,

iPhone 3G and Japanese cellularphones comparison by Narabe
feature iPhone 3G All 2008 Cellphones Some 2008 Cellphones
Camera over 5M pixels ✖ ✔ ✔
One-Seg(TV) ✖ ✔ ✔
One-Seg recorder ✖ ✖ ✔
Official sites access ✖ ✔ ✔
Movie taking ✖ ✔ ✔
Subscriber ID ✖ ? ✔
Arrangeable exterior ✖ ✖ ✔
Number of Native Apps ✔ ✔ ✔
Fingerprint Authentication ✖ ✖ ✔
Pedometer ✔ ✖ ✔
Single-hand operation ✔ ✔ ✔
Ringersong ? ✔ ✔
Emoji(drawing letters) ✖ ✔ ✔
Earthquake alert ✖ ✖ ✔
Self-exchangeable battery ✖ ✔ ✔
Remote Lock ? ✔ ✔
Bell typing ? ✖ ✔
Flash lite ✖ ✔ ✔
FM transmitter ✖ ✖ ✔
GPS ✔ ✔ ✔
i-Tune Store ✔ ✖ ✖
mp3 player ✔ ✔ ✔
PC site access ✔ ✔ ✔
QR Code ✖ ✔ ✔
Safari browser ✔ ✖ ✖
Mobile Wallet(Osaifu Ketai) ✖ ✔ ✔
Decoration mail(Decome) ✖ ✔ ✔
Design ✔ ✖ ✔
Data fixed rate ✔ ✔ ✔
Blind-touch ✖ ✔ ✔
Push mail ✔ ✔ ✔
Waterproof ✖ ✖ ✔

This was originally asked in Japanese on Japanese version Narabete. Then, I copied the result of votes to the English version.

I initially set “All” and “Some” but “All” can have rare exceptional case, for example special model phones for kids or eldery. Most of “Yes”/”No” look correct but as it is “by polling” so some could be inaccurate.

If you have any features you cannot understand what they mean, please ask by comment.

[Disclosure] Narabe is run by Akky AKIMOTO.

Tags: Cellular Phone, Japan by Akky Akimoto
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NTT Docomo provides high-speed cellularphone-web at home

NTT Docomo announced that they will start a new internet connection service “Home U” in June, which enables WiFi web access from cellularphone at home.

With the latest cellphone type N906iL(nicknamed: “onefone”), which has not only data access over cellphone but also WiFi access feature, user can access their favorite cellularphone websites at maximum 54Mbps speed.

I personally do not understand why you need such a high-speed “cellularphone” browser access at home as you likely own PC. However, there are more and more people whose main web environment is a cellularphone browser, and their using career official sites (”Koushiki Site”) are only accessible from cellularphone. So this may be designed for them.

Also, it is possible that this WiFi access helps NTT Docomo if iPhone will be sold from them.

See Also:

NTT Docomo Release [J]

N906iL review by Ketai Watch [J]

Tags: Cellular Phone, Japan by Akky Akimoto
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