if i don't remember wrong j-phone had some sort of internet email put on
top of their skymessage system already back then when skywalker was the
thing, and imode wasnt even around yet. at least tuka had that on their
skymail system. it wasnt very good though, and was limited to about 300
characters, and you had to pay an additional fee (800yen i think it was) a
month to have an email account on your phone. guess the price and
limitations kept most people from using it though.
tmk
At 17:02 23.05.01 +0900, Jani wrote:
>This is accurate for J-SkyWeb, but not quite the full story. Way before
>i-mode was introduced (and before the idea of "WAP" had even been
>invented), in around 1996-7 if I recall correctly, J-Phone had a service
>called "J-SkyWalker", which piggybacked on top of the Japanese short
>message protocol and allowed its users to do all sorts of webby things
>like chatting and playing games. It was relatively popular, but their
>model got a few crucial things wrong (no Internet e-mail, for one)
>and was hobbled by the inherent limitations of abusing an existing
>system. Still, nobody else at the time had anything like it, and
>it was one of the inspirations for i-mode.
>
>(J-SkyWalker was not my cup of tea even back when I worked in
>building keitais and it has been a while, so somebody correct me if
>I got the details wrong...)
>
>Cheers,
>--
>Jani Patokallio (jpatokal@iki.fi) / HCI Lab, University of Tokyo
>[$BA2(B] Get with it, space ghost the force soul weapon
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