the disposable phones have been launched in the USA. $30 gets you 60 mins of
calls. The device has only a call and hang up button. Users dial the number
they want by speaking it into the microphone when connected to a automatic
operator. I believe verizon are launching it.
Many other throw away fones have been shwon in 'prototype' mode and most
have keyboards which of course is slight added cost as oppose to the one
mentioned above.
cannot find direct info on web but check latest copy of 'wires' magazine
cb
conradbuck@sympatico.ca
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From: keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net
[mailto:keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net]On Behalf Of Nick May
Sent: November 9, 2001 9:38 AM
To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Saturation reached? Keitai shops close...
keitai-l@appelsiini.net writes:
>it hasn't fully penetrated by
>implementing more prepay, focusing on the guys in the Silver-Seats amongst
>others.
Prepay really is the key. In the UK, my mother's kids (all 6 of them, it's
a long story) all have basic prepay keitai, even the 7 year old. Yet the
family as a whole is very low tech - they do not even have a functional
internet connection, and very non-indulgent to the technological whims of
kids.
Prepay really has not been pushed here like it has in the UK. There is
still a LONG way to go.
Talking of prepay - did anyone hear what happened to those "paper keitai"
that were being developed in the US?
Nick
<offtopic> Anyone who knows where google and the like would look for meta
tags in a site full of dynamic virtual-framesets, could they possibly drop
me a line, I have a question that is not really keitai oriented</offtopic>
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