(keitai-l) Re: ZDNet Australia: Equip: Is WAP crap?

From: J. Sean Bennett <sean_at_mail.nnet.ne.jp>
Date: 06/30/00
Message-ID: <00af01bfe247$b42767e0$570aa8c0@nnet.ne.jp>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brent Bossom" <bbossom@pg7.so-net.ne.jp>

> > And I hate my WAP phone (cdmaOne IDO by Toshiba, but at least it's clear
> > pink!)

...pink?  yeah, I'd hate to pull that out in public too :)

>
> Should've got the Sony...
>

or Casio CA303 CDMAone - I like mine fine - having access to both Domestic and
worldwide WAP sites is the real boon to me over Nihon-centric imode.  As for
phone services however, NTT is tough to beat - just better/smoother service in
general, in my view.  Then again, there are those NTT service fees.

> Actually I just saw the new Sony I-Mode -- that thing is SWEET!
>
> r e n

That one caught my eye too; slippery though, is it :)

Regarding the newly announced 'official' English iMode sites/services,  I wonder
is it NTT converting the content provider's content to chtml, or is it the
content providers themselves.  IE - I wonder if the 'official' English content
was a result of the foreign content providers wanting in on iMode, or if it was
NTT out looking for English/foreign content to counter a short coming compared
to WAP services ie: English/foreign content.

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Received on Fri Jun 30 06:54:35 2000