Last year I was in Tokyo (during momo in april or may, we saw
colorcodes..), and a friend (25) had seen QR codes, but she didn't know
what to do with them..
I showed her, but it just didn't work very well.. You have to put the
cam on macro first, and even then it's not very easy to capture..
She had a new phone.. NEC (can't remember the exact model..) NTT DoCoMo..
So I'm not sure other people know what to do with it.. things might have
changed the past year ofcourse..
Maybe I'll be in Japan this summer again.
cu
Michael Sydenham wrote:
> On 4/19/06, Jim Levinger <jlevinger@nextcodecorp.com> wrote:
>> QR code's industrial heritage makes it quite clunky to use for consumer
>> applications. .. it is hard to use in lots of print advertising.
>
> I'm not sure if you've actaully seen QR codes in Japan, but I can't agree
> with that - on the contrary it's QR code use in advertising that really
> contributed to it taking off in Japan. Frequently you'll see QR codes on
> nearly every type of print advertising imaginable, from convenience store
> receipts to magazines to billboards, even on PC web pages, so it wasn't that
> hard to use. QR codes are mainly used to store a URL or other small text
> fragment rather than data.
>
>> in Japan the phones use macro focus lenses to
>> enable codes to be shrunk down to small enough sizes to fit into print.
>
> How small is small? You make it sound like they are approaching a tiny size,
> when they are more like a small stamp size (on average).
>
>> Very few phones outside Japan have these optics thus QR would be
> ill-suited.
>
> I think it was more a feature of CCD resolution and general QR block size
> rather than stringent optical requirements. Many Japanese phones are capable
> of reading codes without being placed into macro mode.
>
> Michael.
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