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To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (2797)	2/23/2003 10:26:26 AM
From: quick_thinking	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9255

> Basic WAP as such is/was not designed for japanese, chinese writing Really?? html or WAP has nothing to do with whether you use single byte or double byte writing system. Until recently (and probably still today) there are more WAP users in Japan than in the rest of the world together... > I-mode and WAP will become "parts" of the "next generation WAP". Comparing i-mode and WAP is like comparing Air-France and Rolls-Royce Aircraft engines. One (i-mode) is a consumer brand and a whole mobile internet business universe with more than 3000 participating companies and 35 million paying users, WAP (= wireless application protocol) is what it says: it's a protocol. Commercial success depends almost entirely on the implementation which have nothing to do with the protol itself. As a consumer brand one could study whether the brand value of "WAP" is positive or negative. What do you think, Ilmarinen? > Camera-phones are more a matter of improvements in > "cheap" camera-modules, color > displayes, massproduction as well as a way to > transmit the photos. (besides the fact > that one saves a display, a battery, power supply, > a processor and some memory plus > plastic by not having a separate phone and > snap-shot-camera) sure. But four years ago, the people who made those camera phones had a lot of guts and vision and "one-upmanship" to break the common standard of phones without cameras and risk putting phones with cameras before consumers: for example DoCoMo did not have the vision and guts to break the standard in this way, they rejected this idea - J-Phone did this, they had the vision and the guts. > The MMS-shamail relation is similar to WAP and I-mode. You mean WAP in Europe versus i-mode in Japan? I hope that MMS-shamail will have a more successful start in Europe than WAP had. Just my 2 yen/cents from Tokyo... quick_thinking