http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/ Engadget Mobile Comments for A closer look at Japan's latest handsets http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/Dec 1st 2008 9:51AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/Dec 1st 2008 12:26PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/
The displays are all QVGA if not WQVGA which put every phones in America into shame.
Most phones come with 3.2MP cameras, some are 5MP cameras, even a few are 8MP cameras!
They have One Seg Mobile TV fuction on most phones. What do we have?
All phones come with at least 5 color to choose from.

America IS a third world country when it comes down to phones compare to Japan and Asia.]]>Dec 1st 2008 8:31PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/And in Japan, it's the phones like this that are "free" (well, not that Tiffany one, and not the full touch-screen dealies, but most of the rest). ]]>Dec 3rd 2008 10:41AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/Dec 1st 2008 10:48AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/Dec 1st 2008 2:17PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/Dec 1st 2008 3:13PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/
It's also important to emphasize that the Japanese manufacturers intentionally sabotage a particular feature for each carrier in order to maintain increasingly shorter and more expensive production cycles that only reinforce the constant R&D spending cycle that leads to a false appearance of innovation.

I'll leave the DRM discussion for another time as that is a discussion unto itself.]]>Dec 1st 2008 3:12PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/
Interesting that you mentioned SE, because apparently this tactic backfired on them and now they have no dedicated R&D for Japan anymore. From now on, all SE's Japanese models should be the same as their world-market models. Hope this means better stuff for us elsewhere rather than a prelude to a Nokia-style pullout from Japan.]]>Dec 3rd 2008 10:45AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/
Their "average" phones are quite a bit better than ours but any tech junkie here who wants one can easily get something as good or better, you just have to look and pay for it.

As for the "3.2MP cameras, some are 5MP cameras, even a few are 8MP cameras!", that's a complete waste of (limited) phone storage at this point. In order to take a decent picture that can take advantage of 5 or 8 MP, you need some decent optics and these phones definitely lack them. It's the old "bigger is better" fallacy again.]]>Dec 2nd 2008 1:28AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/Dec 3rd 2008 10:48AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/
Seems like you've never used a Japanese phone before. Some phones run with CCD sensors which are the same type as your typical normal digital cameras. A 3-4 years old model 903SH can take better pictures than any phones you can now buy in America. That's 3-4 years ago. Let's not talk about what they have now.

I still have my 904SH in my storage which was bought from Japan 2 years ago. It's Sim Unlocked now. I compared the pictures that I took with my N82 and it just put N82 into shame.]]>Dec 4th 2008 1:18AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/
One of the major reasons SE ended American CDMA R&D was because of the idea that Japan would serve as the incubator for their ideas, and they saw no profit potential in the US (thanks in part to CDMA carriers rejecting the T608). They didn't want to overshadow their high-end GSM models with much higher spec CDMA models that had 3G, high resolution displays, and multiple megapixel cameras years before the GSM side did.]]>Dec 3rd 2008 11:59AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/http://mobile.engadget.com/2008/12/01/a-closer-look-at-japans-latest-handsets/Dec 31st 2008 6:30AM