(keitai-l) Re: % of color/bw i-mode phones

You can buy accurate sales breakdowns of the different handsets:
http://bizit.nikkeibp.co.jp/it/mobi/salesweek/index.html

But to restate my shoddy guesswork, there were already several million 501
handsets, and only 3 of the available handsets on sale now are color, one of
which is very new to the market, and the N502i has been the best-selling
handset since it came out as one of the first 502 handsets...I stick by my 20%
guess.

Who's gonna buy the sales data and make me look silly? (^^)

r e n

Giles Netcom wrote:

> Do you think there are only a few color handsets because they are not
> popular? I have found that the D502i's are often sold out (in blue and
> silver, but not pink) (and the Sharp for JPhone, was only left in white at
> my local shop last week..)  My hunch is that penetration of color handsets
> is higher than 20%, but I would not be able to say by how much.   Ask
> somebody who runs an online i-mode user community, and I imagine that you
> will find it is more like 40-50% (I saw some numbers from January, just
> after color handsets were introduced, and within a month, a lot of the
> community had gone color).  But then I guess that depends what kind of
> community it is, which i-mode users join what kind of online community, the
> demographic and its tastes, etc.  Anybody who hosts these sites --including
> the more popular i-mode search engines--can log user handset profiles. I
> think they could give you a real-case example if you asked, which might be
> more useful than sheer speculation if you need to quote and actual figure.
>
> Giles.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Renfield Kuroda <Renfield.Kuroda@msdw.com>
> To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 4:43 PM
> Subject: (keitai-l) Re: % of color/bw i-mode phones
>
> > Best guess:
> >
> > Considering there's only 3 color handsets (Mitsubishi "Diamond" D502i,
> > Fujitsu F502i and Sharp's I-Mode Doccimo) and the most popular
> > handsets are NEC's grayscale N502i and Panasonic's grayscale P502i,
> > and no 501i handsets are color, I'd guess:
> >
> > 20% color
> >
> > r e n
> >
> >
> > studio omame wrote:
> >
> > > Hiya,
> > > Anyone know off-hand roughly what % of the current
> > > i-Mode population are using color-capable phones,
> > > vs. b/w-only phones?
> > >
> > > Or, is this sales info only NTT DoCoMo would know?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > george
> > >
> > > -----------------------------------
> > > George Baptista
> > > http://www.omame.com
> > > http://www.dentokogei.com
> > > http://www.omake.com (i-mode)
> >
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