Shari, I agree with you. It really doesn’t bother me that much. I was just being overly dramatic as usual.

kirai, I’m not really sure of the details. We’ll know once it begins.

Nitsua, thanks for joining! I’m glad you like the blog!

Jonas, yeah I saw that phone too. Blackberrys have been rolled out to corporate users here and all the other well-known smart phones don’t exist in Japan. This is because all phones in Japan have internet email, mobile web access, calendar, address book etc. so there’s no need for smartphones. The majority of Japanese keitais are already “smarter” than smartphones in other countries. They do have some Japanese smart phones like the Willcom ones but they have a very small user base, mostly otaku.

i saw softbank just released a bunch of new models, one of which is a QWERTY Nokia… my question is: does the nihon no keitai market not include a lot of QWERTY phones like Blackberry, Treo, Q, etc…?

thanks,

jonas

I think people who do such things subscribe to a different mindset of what is acceptable and don’t mean to be rude. It’s probably the sort of behavior that people who are a part of the cell phone “culture” approve of amongst themselves. That doesn’t mean you have to put up with it though.

All in all, it’s a really bad thing to need that level of constant distraction and points back to cultures that consistently overstimulate people from infancy to adulthood such that we think we’re bored or inefficient if we’re not multi-tasking.