Until the FAQ gels, here is a hopelessly-unsorted list of Recently
Asked Questions - an RAQ, if you will.
All right, I'm lying. Hey, I'm a creative kind of guy, OK? Actually,
a lot of these are real (albeit lightly-edited) questions that
appeared recently.
Most of the URLs point to an answer, or e-mail containing an
answer (read patiently). A few links, however, just point to
the contributor's UN-answered question. Idiotically, I failed
to mark these as such. I'll do better next time.
And I made up a quite a few questions for answers I found to
questions nobody actually asked. Many of which even imparted
useful information.
And, of course, after exhaustively indexing all useful information,
there was the dilemma of how, or whether, to refer to my own recent
contributions to keitai-l. These questions aren't too hard to spot....
Some observations from this trial run:
- there is overwhelming interest in i-mode;
- in particular, there is a hunger for statistics;
- quite a few overseas people need testing help;
- still others have basic navigation/usage questions;
- uber-techie issues are nevertheless increasingly prominent.
I'm in the market for some kind of categorization scheme.
Volunteers?
N.B.: Questions marked "[J]" are for entries that point off to
Japanese-only answers.
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How many double-byte characters per line fit on the screen in the Fujitsu
color F series?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0496.html
What is the maximum file size in the Fujitsu color F series?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0496.html
Can I look at real i-mode screen flow from outside Japan?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0357.html
Where can I get specs on i-mode line-lengths and file-size limits?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0496.html
Is it "imode" or "i-mode" (or "iMode" or "Imode" or....)?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0485.html
So, OK, then how do I enter 'i-mode' correctly in @$%#! Microsoft Word?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0485.html
...and in @$%#! Microsoft Word 2000?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0493.html
While we're being profane: which @$%#! search engines don't know how
'i-mode' is punctuated?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0490.html
How susceptible to earthquakes is the DoCoMo infrastructure?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0482.html
Any decent English-language i-mode earthquake sites in the event of a
serious quake?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0482.html
What are the proposed standards for URLs for telephone calls?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0494.html
Which proposed-standard "tel:" URL features do i-mode handsets actually
support?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0473.html
What does Nokia's XHTML browser look like?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0470.html
What features will NEC's new GPRS phone have?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0471.html
Any wireless carrier offering a decent [i.e., highly manageable] e-mail
service yet?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0475.html
Where are all these enigmatic user-behavior statistics coming from, anyway?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0464.html
What's the best i-mode emulator?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0488.html
When is Michael Turner going to stop wanking and help write a real FAQ
already?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0461.html
How do you make an IMG-tagged J-Phone graphic "non-clickable"?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0462.html
What's the file format for i-mode ring tones?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0458.html
Can i-mode ring tones be authored on a PC?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0481.html
How are DoCoMo's content standards changing? [J]
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0452.html
Is it possible to hit a link in i-mode e-mail and jump to a site directly?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0451.html
What are the advantages of being able to do that?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0448.html
Will i-mode work out better in the U.S. or in Europe?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0478.html
How are they deriving these Pollyanna ARPU projections for i-mode in the
U.S, anyway?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0450.html
Hey, how about that Nokia 8310! ("...chameleon"? "tridimensional surface
decor"??)
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0472.html
Can you please explain "hated"? As in "...the hated WAP gateways"?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0467.html
Is WAP 2.0 already old hat?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0432.html
Can you test the following code on a real x503i? (was Re: tech- Getting
brand & model in Java)
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0465.html
What are the advantages of getting a user login for tracking BEFORE loading
the iAppli?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0373.html
Or maybe session keys are a good way to do tracking, if security is not an
issue?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0386.html
Any research papers in English about what makes mobile sites successful?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0372.html
How do you find information and statistics on KDDi?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0375.html
Whatever happened to Natasha? She didn't, like, check out or something, did
s/he?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0368.html
What i-mode sites are popular in Japan?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0379.html
Zentek's i-jade ShortTimer class never seems to fire off any timer events.
What gives?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0367.html
How does the user's "secret number" get set for a site?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0366.html
Where is most i-mode traffic going?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0360.html
What's driving changes in the official/non-official ratio for i-mode sites?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0377.html
Specifically: are DoCoMo's more relaxed policies a driver of changes in this
ratio?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0377.html
Won't network effects make DoCoMo's "walled garden"model increasingly
unattractive?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0377.html
And hasn't this issue been re-hashed enough?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0383.html
When do Japanese use i-mode? On the train? Waiting in the station?....[J]
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0356.html
Can an i-mode phone scroll left and right?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0348.html
No?! Then how the @#$%! DO you navigate images too wide for an i-mode
screen?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0350.html
What are the most popular phones right now?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0346.html
Can you test my site, please, and tell me what happens?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0326.html
How do you properly test an i-mode site if you are not in Japan?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0321.html
We know about YOU already, Michael, but is Henry Minsky also insane? [Re:
iAppli Pico-browser]
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0315.html
I'm, like, a Capricorn? And I've got, like, a WAP phone? Should I, y'know,
short-sell LoudCloud?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0316.html
I love it! Can I get one for MY company, bonsai-investor.com?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0322.html
Where will i-mode's U.S. debut happen, and what might this mean?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0310.html
The Microsoft "Stinger"? What's that? Have I been in Japan too long?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0317.html
What do you Europeans call these mobile phone thingies, anyway?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0319.html
And for all you Esperanto-drinkers - oops, that's a language, right?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0325.html
How can I deny access to non-iAppli clients? Is it enough to check
USER_AGENT?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0304.html
What does DoCoMo mean about opening i-mode to other ISPs?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0422.html
Are there other mobile networks in Japan that already allow this?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0424.html
Does this mean DoCoMo will give up their packet traffic charges??
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0434.html
And what are the implications of ISP choice for the market share for any
given service?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0437.html
What does a developer have to know about i-mode official-site user
subscription?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0344.html
How might one do e-Wallets on i-mode?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0301.html
How can you pretend to be channeling van Wolferen when he's still alive and
all?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0303.html
Fractal user metrics, anyone?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0497.html
How many unofficial i-mode sites are there now?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0363.html
Can you point me to an i-mode chat site and bulletin board, so I can see
what they look like?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0454.html
So what's the killer app for JavaPhones? (See also: Is Henry Minsky
insane?)
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0330.html
Does DoCoMo charge for packets accepted by the phone or the total their
gateway receives?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0299.html
Ummm....what was the question again?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0290.html
Why should Japanese consumer-electronics companies dominate mobile phone
production? (2)
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0286.html
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0333.html
Who can FAX me an obituary for Ibuka? You know, the real founder of SONY?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0296.html
Need to know the etymology of "Motorola"? No? Well sorry here it is
anyway:
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0336.html
What are some ways of "protecting" desktop browsers from reading i-mode
content?
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2001-03/0283.html
.......
Until next time,
-m
leap@gol.com
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Received on Sun Mar 25 13:42:11 2001