NTT Docomo (9437.T) will be announcing their 904i lineup on May 23rd, next week at 18:45 after the market close. There will be a live presentation which you can watch on the web and also on your video conferencing enabled FOMA phone. Too bad I got rid of mine. One of the features already announced is the iAppli Banking App that will be standard on all 904i handsets. Currently, this seems to be just a glorified version of the banking interface you can already use on i-Mode without any added value, except that it looks more like an ATM interface. When they begin to connect that to the FeliCa chip where you can to do things like direct debit from your bank account or transfer money between keitais, it might become more useful. The photos above are of the pre-released N904i which is supposed to be designed by Stefano Giovanoni in Milano, Italy. I don’t know who he is but these designs don’t look any better than the others..
On the subway this morning, the guy next to me was trying to send a mail from his keitai while we were in a tunnel. He kept shaking his keitai madly in the air, whacking it with his hand in an attempt to get a signal. I was gonna tell him that there aren’t any moving parts in it and that banging it would only result in it breaking, but I don’t think he had the intelligence to full comprehend what that meant. I felt sorry for the phone.
the tunnels are probably the only place in tokyo you can’t send emails, right?
mata ne
that’s right. no signals in tunnels.
Some of the stations have service access provided by antenna arrays set up underground, but I’m not sure how far down the tunnels that access goes.
I always thought that the phone would just put the mail in its outbox and send it whenever the signal returned. That’s what most US phones do…or at least mine does.
I’m moving to Okinawa next month and hoping that AU comes out with a new phone or two that addresses the disturbing lack of outer color screens on its flip phones. It seems like AU is seriously pushing OneSeg and Navitime, but turning its phones into giant bricks of plastic with poorly-readable outer screens. I like the SO903 for DoCoMo, but AU has the best signal on the island and its plans are so much cheaper. I’d love to have a phone similar in build and quality (3″ screen? YES, PLEASE) for AU.
which come to my question :
Roy,
how often do you buy new cell-phones ?