I was at the same Foma promotion in Shibuya, and agree with your
comments on the quality of the Foma Phone to Foma Phone video call -
even the voice quality was really bad.
I was with a visiting-Japan American, and the two of us were trying the
Foma services, and asking lots of questions - he did like the idea of
being able to record a video clip, and and then e-mail it - particularly
for simple urgent messages he felt it was a
very useful app - on the move he could send a sharp visual reminder to
staff "your sales forcast hasn`t arrived yet, I want it within 3 hours
!!!" - which is clearly much handier, when rushing through a station
like say Shibuya, to do, than type a message into a phone, and then e-mail.
Receipients would need a Foma phone to receive and view the video clip,
but it could also be viewed on a PC - FOMA video player is
downloadable from:
http://www.digitalnetworks.philips.com/InformationCenter/Global/FArticleSummary.asp?lNodeId=764&channel=764&channelId=N764A2175
which is frequently where receipients would want to see it anyway.
Philip Greenan
Curt Sampson wrote:
>On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Tony Chan wrote:
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>>Does anyone have anything nice to say about FOMA?
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>No, not really. I got my first taste of FOMA video at the big campaign
>in Shibuya last weekend, and it was pretty awful. I wouldn't pay a penny
>for it, quite frankly, and I was fairly keen on FOMA up to this point.
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>cjs
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Received on Tue Feb 11 06:31:12 2003