Comments on: iPhone http://blog.fibrowalls.com/20070112/iphone/ Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 29 Aug 2010 06:01:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: JohnK http://blog.fibrowalls.com/20070112/iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-99 JohnK Sun, 21 Jan 2007 08:28:19 +0000 http://blog.fibrowalls.com/20070112/iphone/#comment-99 <p>Mate, data rates are charged in PACKETS here -- as in 8 packets in a a kilobyte! The rates per packet are very low, but even checking your email adds up given the tiny unit of measurement. Not to mention that the Japanese all want phones that work the same, if you compare the user interface and the button layout of all the Japanese specific phones on the market here you'll find very very few differences besides basic aesthetics. Japanese telcos control the device market with an iron clad fist that makes the Americans look like pussies, they dictate exactly what they want on the phone, and won't sell a phone that doesn't fit their specs, and as far as I can tell you can't use unlocked phones here. Oh yeah, you can't get a phone here without a contract of some kind.</p> <p>Apple's not gonna get a run here, and even if they do there's no reason to believe it would be successful. Back home I remember seeing tons of people sporting the white headphones, here I see more people with tiny Korean flash players than white headphones. Not to mention the iPhone isn't a 3G phone, so the data services wouldn't even work on the network here. Won't be seeing this thing here for a long time to come I think.</p> Mate, data rates are charged in PACKETS here — as in 8 packets in a a kilobyte! The rates per packet are very low, but even checking your email adds up given the tiny unit of measurement. Not to mention that the Japanese all want phones that work the same, if you compare the user interface and the button layout of all the Japanese specific phones on the market here you’ll find very very few differences besides basic aesthetics. Japanese telcos control the device market with an iron clad fist that makes the Americans look like pussies, they dictate exactly what they want on the phone, and won’t sell a phone that doesn’t fit their specs, and as far as I can tell you can’t use unlocked phones here. Oh yeah, you can’t get a phone here without a contract of some kind.

Apple’s not gonna get a run here, and even if they do there’s no reason to believe it would be successful. Back home I remember seeing tons of people sporting the white headphones, here I see more people with tiny Korean flash players than white headphones. Not to mention the iPhone isn’t a 3G phone, so the data services wouldn’t even work on the network here. Won’t be seeing this thing here for a long time to come I think.

]]> By: Tim http://blog.fibrowalls.com/20070112/iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-98 Tim Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:35:57 +0000 http://blog.fibrowalls.com/20070112/iphone/#comment-98 <p>Mate Japan will have them for months before Oz sees them. Let along off contract. I'm never signing another contract thanks. Let alone to Voda or Optus here who will be the likely choices for the $999 2-year deal at $80 a month, excluding data, that we will end up getting. The data is really going to kill it here. Rates are still charged per KILObyte! It works in the US because of their $20 all you can download deals.</p> Mate Japan will have them for months before Oz sees them. Let along off contract. I’m never signing another contract thanks. Let alone to Voda or Optus here who will be the likely choices for the $999 2-year deal at $80 a month, excluding data, that we will end up getting. The data is really going to kill it here. Rates are still charged per KILObyte! It works in the US because of their $20 all you can download deals.

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