Cmode:
After a breakfast meeting with one of our customers I played
with one of the two Cmode vending machines in the Shibuya area
this morning.
I purchased one orange juice receiving my reward points to
my Cmode account, but the machine could not print a discount
ticket for a restaurant because the printer was broken.
I got there around 10:00am, and I was about the only customer
interested in the machine, however there were two "race queen"
type (residents of Japan understand the meaning...) ladies
in Coca-Cola color mini-skirts, 3 market research ladies with
questionnaire sheets waiting for customers to fill in long
sheets of questions about their experience, one official
photographer to photograph the action, and about 8 serious
looking salary men, who looked like bucho's of
DoCoMo or Itochu or Coca-Cola to study. While I was drinking
the drink, repair men opened the machine at least three times
to fix something, probably the printer.
Overall, it's a fantastic project, but I guess the mechanical
parts still need some fixing to be reliable.
One thing you can't do with Cmode at this time is to purchase
a Coke and charge it to the mobile phone bill - which is what
the hype is often about: using the mobile phone as a purse.
I guess the reason for this is security.
We have a prepared a Cmode section for the imode-faq with
some more details:
http://www.eurotechnology.com/imode/faq-cmode.html
Best regards - and happy Cmode-ing to all of you,
Gerhard Fasol
http://www.eurotechnology.com/
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Received on Wed Sep 5 09:29:05 2001