Too short phone lifespans of half year or up to a year exhausted Japanese phone makers. They can't make any phone quick enough to release in such high rate anymore. It was crazy. even docomo 904i series,which was released Q3 2007,has already discontinued. some company like Mitsubishi,Sanyo,and even Sony Ericsson quitted from Japanese market(some of docomo-branded SE phones are now actually supplied by NEC). poor profit from phones led software also poor; typical Japanese "High-End" phones takes almost 1 second just to open up main menu. phones with WVGA LCD can't play any movie larger than VGA. carriers are responsible for most of these.KDDI salesperson once said in a interview like this: "We always ask phone suppliers to make one thing very bad on a phone so a new model look like even more attractive." arn't they crazy? so I'm seeing this news as a good sign. maybe we can get something less weirder.
PS: that "EDGE" shown in photo actually stands for Willcom's PHS AIR-EDGE, once also called AirH" . it's slow just like EDGE(up to 204kbps on handsets),but not that EDGE.
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Too short phone lifespans of half year or up to a year exhausted Japanese phone makers. They can't make any phone quick enough to release in such high rate anymore. It was crazy. even docomo 904i series,which was released Q3 2007,has already discontinued. some company like Mitsubishi,Sanyo,and even Sony Ericsson quitted from Japanese market(some of docomo-branded SE phones are now actually supplied by NEC). poor profit from phones led software also poor; typical Japanese "High-End" phones takes almost 1 second just to open up main menu. phones with WVGA LCD can't play any movie larger than VGA. carriers are responsible for most of these.KDDI salesperson once said in a interview like this: "We always ask phone suppliers to make one thing very bad on a phone so a new model look like even more attractive." arn't they crazy?
so I'm seeing this news as a good sign. maybe we can get something less weirder.
PS: that "EDGE" shown in photo actually stands for Willcom's PHS AIR-EDGE, once also called AirH" . it's slow just like EDGE(up to 204kbps on handsets),but not that EDGE.