> It's looking like (despite the rants of certain people on this list :-))
> really small phones with basic functionality aren't so popular in Japan.
If they were not popular there would not be more and more Premini's.
"basic funtionality": the Tu-Ka-S phone was a huge success and
put TuKa back on track - and Vodafone introduced Vodafone-Simply
in Europe - and says publicly that this was inspired by Tuka-S.
That DoCoMo phones are given away for zero YEN, does not mean
that they are not worth anything, or that DoCoMo could not
sell them. It's part of the wild battle for market share. You
have to look at the bigger picture to understand this - after
all, if a guy gets a Premini for 0YEN and then pays
YEN7000/month to DoCoMo that's better for DoCoMo than if he gets a
Vodafone or TuKa phone for zero YEN and pays YEN 6000/month
to Tuka or Vodafone from then on.... DoCoMo has the money
back for the "0-YEN" phone in no time at all!
got-it?
Gerhard
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Gerhard Fasol, PhD Eurotechnology Japan K. K.
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Received on Tue Jun 14 05:03:35 2005