(keitai-l) Foreign press at G8 rate i-mode a flop?

Good morning,

here is an interesting piece of information from Nikkei BP 
Biztech about the acceptance of i-mode among the G8 foreign 
press:

Summit Special: Foreign press at G8 rate i-mode a flop?
http://anima.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$327

Quote: "Virtually all the foreign press who did borrow the
specially prepared i-mode phones used them only for free 
phone calls." 

Is that bad preparation (the press didn't know enough about 
the phones in advance) or will i-mode be a Japan-only success? 
Or are the journalists simply ignorant?  

TTL,
Andrea
-- 
Andrea Hoffmann -- Editor-in-Chief --  hoffmann@westcyber.com
Japan Mobile Information  ----  http://anima.editthispage.com