Are you wishing on handle any japanese mobile phone in your country?. It could come true soon, because Japan Goverment and mobile phone manufactures are thinking on market its mobile phones overseas, possibly even targeting U.S. consumers for its shiny, super fast handsets. I hope Europe too. (I have my iPhone, but I love Japan handsets, I´d like to get one of those.)
The first technology the initiative hopes to take global is the Wallet Phone, a handset that mixes mobile payment capabilities with top of the line cell phone features. The handsets use embedded FeliCa chips (designed by Sony) that allow users to pay for purchases, train tickets and items in compatible vending machines by just waving their phone.
While folks in Japan have been using mobile phones to pay for things since 2004, the technology is not yet widely available in the U.S. and Europe and the missing infrastructure in stores, stations and vending machines may be a hurdle for the Japanese initiative.
While the U.S. might be a difficult market for Japanese cell phones, an official with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications reportedly said that Asian nations such as Taiwan and South Korea have been asking for Japanese cell phones for years.
I am not sure if we could finally buy this handsets in Europe (I hope someday), but here i leave some videos of Japan handsets in order to satisfy your wishes, some of them including stupid features, and others built in great cover designs . You can check too some available mobile phones in Japan in this link.
Via MobileCrunch
August 21st, 2008 at 5:27 pm
[...] We confirm what we wrote about japanese tendency to market their mobile phones in a previous post. [...]
January 29th, 2010 at 7:30 pm
sent this to Freezilla ( let me explain FreeZilla claims to be the first Web 2.0 freebies and promotions social networking site.