Typing Japanese on cell? hell?

This morning I found this news, hmm Great! 48 seconds to type 160 characters? I tried typing the same sentence on my cell, and I gave up almost immediately. I really really hate typing on my cell actually. Especially JAPANASE! We have to do these crazy conversions such small buttons. The funny thing is a face mark dictionary is a preset on every mobile phone.

By the way mobile phones have developed a lot since I wrote about them last year. I work for a mobile entertainment service, so I have a chance to see most kinds of cell phone models at work. I have to say recently it seems as though they ' ve run out of new topics / technology. So each company has decided to creat a concept phone and compete for business based on its design. This is a very simple phone designed for older people by TUKA.  The premini is a small phone, lightweight, easy to carry inside  your pocket. When this first arrived at our office first, we all had a good laugh. au has released its new "au-design" phone,  I like this penck. It's vibration is comfortable, how can I explain this.... a moving part is deep inside the phone, so you can get feeling as if something will hatch from its egg-shaped body. Talby is fashionably designed by Marc Newson. Here is the new model list. Which do you like most?

Comments

[Antuan]

I want to buy a small japanese ore chinese mobile phone.I live in italy but i dont know what tipes of mobiles do you have.

[Mari]

Hi abraxis
Yes they have pretty good servie. Cheaper than docomo.
Ah I do not like moto, Nokia, that design boring.

Hi Gio
Yes Italian people would like such a good design stuff. Talby is also light weight.

Hi Claire
You have still that?? Okay please keep it. I think it is hard to find it someone who have it now.

Hi AB
Yes, sometime my freids are suprised my mail is so short.

[abraxis]

AU has nice phones...do they have good service?

[abraxis]

Hiya Claire!

Yah, there's a lot of LG/Samsung phones on the GSM networks here too. But they are the majority on the CDMA networks (Sprint, Verizon) because they're CDMA, just like South Korea.

They have a lot of GSM models here too but they have competition from Moto, SE and Nokia. I've got an SE T637 here running on Cingular GSM.

Of course, many of these are "last year's" models compared to the ones you can purchase today in Hong Kong or Singapore.

I'd like to be in a position (over there) when I can actually pick up a Talby or Penck but I'm stuck over here with my SE phone and Cingular service in Cali...

[Gio]

...if you consider that after all it's just a phone, isn't it surprising a so huge number of different models? Dunno...maybe it's because I've got a company mobile phone and everytime it rings I think "please, hope this is not a call to inform me about some problem at work"...
Anyhow my vote for the Talby, just cool design!

[Claire （クレア）]

I looked at the link page and scanned the DoCoMo, au, and Vodafone models.

Most of the DoCoMo phones are really boring and look like the phones we have here in the US, but there are more features on the network to compensate. The au phones are a lot nicer than Vodafone's!

So, I'm sitting here, looking at my Vodafone prepaid keitai, and wishing I were in Japan, looking at these really nice keitai instead. 懐かしいでしょ.....

To Abraxas: It's mostly cheap Samsung and LG phones on the GSM networks, too, unless you have a Motorola Razr.

[abraxis]

Waaah! I like the AU phones.

Nice industrial design. The Penck is cool (multi-media phone?) and the Talby is neat looking too.

Here in the US, it's mostly cheap Samsung and LG phones on our CDMA networks. Our GSM networks get "new" phones at least a year later than the rest of the world gets them.

Of course by that time our "new" phones aren't new anymore...

[AzianBrewer]

I will definitely keep the txt msg short!