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Reasons why iphone better

1. It has far better interface and screen.
Japan GUI's are terrible
2. It has Google Maps!
3. Its an iPod.
Japanese mobile phone music players are just plain dumb
4. It has a real web browser.
Not just docomo, AU crap
5. Software buttons, hardware buttons are dead.
Japanese designers could had this on the market for 2 years.
6. 3G mobile TV is a mess, who uses it, reception terrible, foma hotspots needed. Can I download Lost? or a good Japanese movie? No
7. Scanning bar codes has been international for a long time... How many bar codes did you scan in 2006? I scanned 2 and it didn't work on one.

etc etc you have missed the point totally... Its not just a phone, its an ipod, its a pda etc

Japanese phones are just phones with lots of gimmicks..totally different..

Ok... yes, Japanese phones are [as i've always said] around 2 years ahead of NA phones in terms of features but the real difference is really moot. We [those living in Japan] use phones to email or write on blogs. That's prolly 95% of what we do here. Walk on the train and at LEAST 80% of the people will be sitting there in the exact same position holding their phones punching away at it.

Yeah, music is a nice option... my phone is 2 years old and I dont like the idea of downloading proprietary music at cost when i have GB's of mp3's already. am considering the docomo music porter 2, which should have lowered in price now that the 900 series has been released.

But what happens when i use my phone to play music? The battery life drains... and then I cant get mail... tbh, i ALREADY have problems with my phone running out of power 3 or 4 days out of every week [yes, i'm a rather busy guy over here, hehe].

For only the 2nd time in my life i have witnessed someone actually watching tv on a cell here. The picture quality was terrific! I was watching it with her for a little bit [she even tilted it towards me a little, nice girl... shoulda traded mail addresses].

I can sum up what I think easily... try and do too many things and you will master NONE of them. The ONLY thing that matters is email, email, and sometimes imode to blogs. that's it! all the rest is just frill.

I dont know what I'd do without a keitai [cell phone]... i sometimes laugh as my recieve mail count tops over 100 in a single working day - and i manage to reply to most all of them too. and thats in JAPANESE, lol! I write japanese email faster than my japanese wife does now... lol.

A friend of mine back in high school (so about 5 years ago,) was of Japanese background, and over the summer his family had gone to visit family in Japan. He bought a cell phone in Japan without a contract and then brought it back with him. He was able to hook it up to a local provider.

The thing was so far ahead of what we had it was incredible. 2002 cell phones in North America were bricks. This thing was slim, large full-color screen, games, and when it rang, not only did it have awesome ring tones, but the whole phone was transparent and there were colored LEDs that back-lit the keys and went crazy to let you know someone was calling if the ringer was off.

Ever since then, it's been no surprise to me that we're still several millennia behind the Japanese with our cell phone technology. The iPhone is really leaping ahead in North America, but that doesn't mean it's revolutionizing the entire market worldwide.