David Jones wrote:
>
> I'd like to know which bilingual phone is the best in Japan. I am
> considering getting a Nokia NM502i. Is this a good model? All comments are
> appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Dave
I have a NM502i. It's "cute" with the sliding dialing pad cover,
and it's small. Actually, I normally use it in the fully Japanese mode,
so I don't know how good the English menues are. I have once tried
out the English menues, and they look as if they have been prepared
by someone who's native language is Japanese. You can get a set
of English manuals at the NTT-DoCoMo owned shops, but not normally
at the many ordinary keitai-sales shops. I think the English manuals
only cover part of the information covered in the Japanese manuals,
so in that sense it's not 100% bilingual - more like 60% bilingual.
One disadvantage is that the screen is smaller than competing models,
and the screen is black & white, while there are competing models
with gray scale monitors and color monitors. So if you are addicted
to animations of Pikachu and Hello-Kitty and hamsters you better get
a model with a color screen.
Hope this helps,
Gerhard Fasol
http://www.eurotechnology.com/
fasol@eurotechnology.com
Received on Sat Sep 2 07:15:36 2000