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To: StanX Long who wrote (63041)	4/21/2002 11:25:55 PM
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Japan Slow to Accept New Phones By KEN BELSON nytimes.com TOKYO, April 21 — Mikio Fukai would seem to be a wireless phone company's dream. At 26, he is young, upwardly mobile and technology-savvy, just the type marketers expect to drop hundreds of dollars on fees every month. Yet in the latest pitch for his pocket money — so-called third-generation cellular phone service — Mr. Fukai is noticeably cool. Instead of running out to buy the latest handset packed with high-speed video and audio functions, Mr. Fukai, a salesman for Compaq Computer in Tokyo, is staying with his second-generation i-mode phone from NTT DoCoMo. Although intrigued by a handset that is part personal digital assistant, part portable entertainment center, he is satisfied doing what most cellphone users do: talk and send occasional e-mail. "I am extremely interested in the functions on the 3G phones," said Mr. Fukai, who will spend his extra cash on a new broadband connection for his apartment. "But the critical problem is that the screens are not spacious enough to read letters, and the buttons are too small."