What I see in Korea is that phones are still much smaller than average
japanese phones. The competition there has been much more around size than
in Japan apparently, and this had some adverse effect on the screen-sizes
and -quality for that matter. Or: small size was easier to achieve at a good
price than great features. I haven't had a very recent look around but I
suspect screens are still very small compared to Japan (likely not bigger
than e.g. the screen of an Ericsson T68) and I suspect there are no TFT 65k
color screens yet either.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dc [mailto:dc@gamelet.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 5:20 AM
> To: Keitai-L
> Subject: (keitai-l) korean handset subsidies
>
>
>
> Handset subsidies are illegal in korea - perhaps part of the
> reason the
> phones are still so pathetic (mostly B+W) despite the
> excellent 1X network
> infra.
>
> BTW the samsung phone sprint will be selling in july in the US is
> *awesome* - color, small, stylish, fast java, rumored sub
> $200 price point
> at launch.
>
Received on Wed Apr 3 20:39:10 2002