{"id":18594,"date":"2013-04-12T16:47:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T07:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=18594"},"modified":"2013-04-12T16:47:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T07:47:57","slug":"the-5-japanese-cellphones-that-changed-mobile-world-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/the-5-japanese-cellphones-that-changed-mobile-world-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5 Japanese Cellphones That Changed Mobile World Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve read recent article on Wired titled\u00a0The 12 Cellphones That Changed Our World Forever<\/a>. To be honest when I’ve checked those phones I felt this article has too narrow view of things. There are many other cellphones contributed to change the world. I picked up 5 Japanse cellphones influenced not only Japanese market but the whole mobile industry in the world.
\nFujitsu F501i — 1999<\/strong>
\n\"f501i_l\"<\/a>
\nWhen Nokia 3210<\/a> came into the U.S. market, first i-mode handset was released in Japan. i-mode was a mobile internet service in Japan used data format cHTML(compact HTML) based on HTML.
\nBy the success of i-mode service, many mobile content providers grew in Japan and established monthly subscription businesses. 1999 was also a year Nokia introduced S40 OS into the market.
\nNEC N503i — 2001<\/strong>
\n\"ncm03\"<\/a>
\nFirst handset adopted to i-\u03b1ppli service by NEC. i-\u03b1ppli enabled to run Java applications on mobile.
\nKyocera W11K — 2003<\/strong>
\n\"15b\"<\/a>
\nTogether with a sister model Hitachi W11H, Kyocera W11K was the first handset adopted to fixed unlimited data plan in Japan. Till that time, mobile users needed to pay data fee based on usage. After the success of this handset and unlimited data plan, mobile web usage exploded and brought many freemium services similar to PC internet business.
\nFrom the outlooking this handset was called Gundam Keitai(Mobile). (Gundam is a robot from a popular animated TV series.)
\nSharp J-SH04 — 2000<\/strong>
\n\"j-sh04\"<\/a>
\n<\/a>\u00a0First handset by Sharp enabled Sha-mail(Photo mail) service. This was one of the earliest handset installed camera on mobile.
\nPioneer J-PE01 — 1999<\/strong>
\n\"jpe01\"<\/a>
\nThis handset is also a classic one… 8 years earlier than iPhone, used touch front LCD screen interface instead of actual buttons.
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I’ve read recent article on Wired titled\u00a0The 12 Cellphones That Changed Our World Forever. To be honest when I’ve checked those phones I felt this article has too narrow view of things. There are many other cellphones contributed to change the world. I picked up 5 Japanse cellphones influenced not only Japanese market but the… Continue reading The 5 Japanese Cellphones That Changed Mobile World Forever<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}