Dear all,
Does anyone know of any leading wireless internet phone/PDA companies focusing on
financial applications in Japan?
Also, any good financial apps out there, more than just financial news or enter
stock code and get price etc...?
Finally, what do you think about my back of the envelope computations for wireless
revenues for i-mode:
(1) ARPU per month for voice and IDD: US$25
(2) ARPU per month for SMS: US$2
(3) ARPU per month for data downloads: US$10
ARPU: Average revenue per user
Is this believable? Any comments... Anyone know what the ARPU breakdown for i-mode,
other operators in Japan?
-JKL
calvin lash wrote:
> David Kucera wrote:
> > Does anybody know the current penetration rate of earphone mics among keitai
> > users? ......I'm surprised how relatively few people are buying these.
>
> You're right---I am surprised too by how few people are buying these. A
> PDA with a wireless earphone mike and KEITAI functionality seems to be
> patently obvious solution to the funky little screens and numeric
> keypads of KEITAI phones.
>
> > Is this considered uncouth in Japan culture?
>
> It's not just uncouth, just KICHIGAI/crazy.
>
> As mentioned before by Eric Hildum <Eric_Hildum@itochu.net>:
> >It did look strange to others seeing me walk down the street talking to myself,
>
> Japanese users think that talking to themselves using an earphone mike
> looks crazy. Even worse would be using a Bluetooth wireless earphone
> mike that would be nearly-invisible, bone-conduction mike. It would
> appear to others as though the KEITAI user was talking wildly into blank
> space.
>
> The other major concern is the appearance problem of earphone mikes and
> headsets. I have heard both female and male Japanese users say in
> product interviews that wearing a headset seems "feminine." The most
> striking comment was from a female engineer that said headsets were as
> KIMOCHIWARUII/creepy as men who buy ONNAPOI/effeminate PocketBoards for
> KEITAI text input. Just as any kind of keyboard use was avoided by
> salarymen until few years ago, headsets are seen as tools of telephone
> operators and DJs and aren't viewed as "proper" for business attire.
>
> Eric Hildum also mentioned:
> >One thing to consider, it may not be allowed to use headphones while driving
>
> Japan has a law banning _hand-held_ cell phone use while driving.
>
> Compliance to the new law is good: "The month after Japan banned cell
> phones in cars it saw a 75% drop in related
> accidents."<http://www.ai-online.com/articles/may00/0500f0.htm>
>
> However, enforcement of this new law seems to be toothless because
> police aren't able to fine violators--just issue warnings. So I will
> just go ahead and pop a CD out of its case, slip it into the in-dash
> player, fiddle with the CD remote, at the same time sipping a tall
> latte, dialing the cell phone, trying to read Kanji on my car navigation
> system while keeping my hands on the wheel and attention on the road.
> :-o
Received on Sun Oct 1 11:08:21 2000