As someone else said on the list: Yodobashi, etc do have
fully connected phones from time to time (not sure if they
always have them). The one near where I live is just an
ordinary AU shop. They have the Hitachi phone with GPS
etc all fully working, GPS also fully connected and working.
Gerhard
Curt Sampson wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Gerhard Fasol wrote:
>
>
>>Some of the shops have fully functional connected models as well.
>>For example, right round where I live.
>
>
> Whereabouts would this be? Can you provide the store locations and
> names, perhaps?
>
> I played with a functioning D505i at a Yadabashi Camera in Shinjuku this
> evening, but it's a bit disappointing that you can't even try out the
> web browser. And not having any incoming e-mail, it's hard to check how
> easy it is to copy items from it for pasting elsewhere (a very frequent
> operation for me).
>
> I think in the end, borrowing or renting a phone for a few days is the
> only real solution.
>
> cjs
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