> > 1. Is it at all possible, short of hitching a plane to Japan, of
picking up
> > one of these phones for development and demo purposes?
> >
>
> No, unless you have a tie in with one of the handset manufacturers, the
> only way to get one is to go to a shop and buy one and to do that you
> need to prove you are a resident of Japan. Also since you would be out
> of the DoCoMo service area you wouldn't be able download i-appli to the
> phone. Also, I'm not aware of any cable based solutions that would
> allow you to transfer software from PC to Handset that are publicly
> available.
OK. but what about buying a phone, downloading a few representative
iAppli, and shipping it, with recharger, to the U.S.? (Do all iAppli
check in with mothership DoCoMo before running?)
Laugh if you want, but in the U.S., sometimes people use FedEx
to send packages from one floor of an office tower to another.
Given the costs of doing business in Japan, and the jump you
could get on certain opportunities, overnighting phones across
the Pacific for final test-check cycles on iAppli might actually be a
sensible way to develop.
Of course, you still need someone on the ground here, if you
want to do it on a routine basis.
> > 3. Is there *any* movement underway to translate the Japanese iAppli
docs
> > (API and specs) into English? Them there sites that automatically
translate
> > from Japanese make my shrinking brain hurt...
>
>....I know Mobile Media Japan was
> planning to but I don't know how they are getting on. I know I'd buy it
> straight away of they did!!!
There are probably some "derived work" issues under international
copyright law.
-m
leap@gol.com
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Received on Fri Apr 13 07:18:03 2001