(keitai-l) Re: Entering text on japanese phones?

From: Sauli Hirvi <sauli_at_m0de.com>
Date: 09/07/00
Message-ID: <001f01c018b5$8856a1e0$4e7e41c1@taivas.com>
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From: "Simen Svale Skogsrud" <simen@triggerduck.com>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 12:05 PM
Subject: (keitai-l) Entering text on japanese phones?


> Hi, Everyone!
>
> I am new to this list. I work in a game company called TriggerDuck
> Entertainment Engineering designing mobile games. I was just wondering
> whether any one of you know how viable chatting is on japanese phones. I
> remember hearing that it is so complicated to enter japanese character
into
> a phone that it is seldom done - but on the other hand I hear that people
> compose mails and short messages using their phones, so it must be working
> to some extent.

Well katakana and of course romanji shouldn't be too hard to input
on phones. I don't live in japan, but I'd imagine that you wouldn't use
kanji to write sms/chatting, am I right?

One of the easiest and first ideas that come to mind when
thinking about i-mode uses is chatrooms and to make that
impossible by difficult input wouldn't be too smart.

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sauli
Received on Thu Sep 7 13:16:15 2000