(keitai-l) Re: AW: which is most remarkable? Vodafone's counter attack or the potential demise of WAP?

hi Jansan, how are you doing!

if you are in Berlin, would you share us some details on this
E-Plus i-mode?  what I'm interested is the NEC n21i handset
which uses ACCESS Compact NetFront browser for both WAP 2.0
and i-mode.  then from where do they fork away?

    presentation: WML, C-HTML
    session: WSP, ALP
    ...
    network GRPS WDP, UDP/IP should be shared at least

think the easiest way is C-HTML on top of WSP.

the success of i-mode is its business part, the half-keiretsu
half-open content market, enabled by maybe the world's first
integrated micro-payment billing infrastructure.  will E-Plus,
AWE or anyone else copy this model outside Japan?

i-mode is like Sony PlayStation.  Sony makes no profit, or even
lose money from the box but it takes a certain percentage from
each copy of a game.  so many people have been making so huge
money developing games, so does Sony by claiming the fees.

cheers,
  Ken


From: "Jan Michael Hess" <jansan@mobileeconomy.de>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Subject: (keitai-l) AW: which is most remarkable?  Vodafone's counter attack 
or the >Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:43:21 +0100

joao, some comments on this news:

- I spoke with a Vizzavi guy at Cebit. Above all, they are trying hard
  to push anything with colour as fast as possible. The devices
  able to do it now and very soon are SonyEricsson T68(i), Mitsubishi/Trium
  Eclipse, Nokia 7650 ... quite fiew of them at the moment.
  I think it will take some time until Vodafone offers the same NEC or 
Toshiba
  device offered now by eplus for i-mode.
  Pushing colour is something some other players have done in Germany, too, 
and
  we will see lots more excitement about colour in Europe if enough devices 
are
  available.

  However, from a technical standpoint I don't believe Vodafone will get
  rid of WAP any time soon. Newer Versions of WAP over GPRS with a Colour 
Device
  that enables Java will match the user experience i-appli fans are used to,
  it will only take some time to reach decent penetration in our European 
markets.

- Vodafone still has some trouble to separate responsibilities between
  vodafone and vizzavi. it looks like vizzavi will push mainly branded 
content
  as in the case of i-mode.

regards from berlin, jansan.


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