Until Apple puts a 5+ MP camera in the screen =P.
With a Canon 85mm f/1.8 lense, so the iPhone triple in size
Until Apple puts a 5+ MP camera in the screen =P.
You appear to have missed out the tool for taking stones out of horses' hooves. How can anything be called a proper phone without one of those?I was going to say the number one turn-off was the lack of three different fold-out keyboards, the ability to automate your home, four different sized blades, a corkscrew, magnifying glass and no hook for the charm attachment/lanyard/flashing LED dongle.
You appear to have missed out the tool for taking stones out of horses' hooves. How can anything be called a proper phone without one of those?
the iPhone is pretty much a yawner over there.
It has a lame camera, no MMS, people in Japan don't use iTunes much, and the real turn off...NO hook for charm attachment.
Just going to throw this out there:
Remember... "There are lies, damn lies, and statistics." --Mark Twain
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Bah! All your made up statistics are wrong. Its 97.3% of all statistics are made up. Jeesh! Everyone knows that!
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on the charm attachment thing. My girlfriend has a ball of charms on hers weighing more than the phone itself. Some of the high end Japanese phones are pretty hefty, too.
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bah. japan. a sudoku game or other brain game using acelerators and these statistics will jump to an 50%
Masquerade is the only one who gets it.
Most features on Japanese mobile phones aren't that advanced. 1-Seg TV is the only thing I can think of that I've seen recently that was far beyond what we have in the US and even then most phones don't have that sort of functionality. Sure, you can get a phone with GPS and TV for $300, but if you're similar to the majority, then you'll be getting a slim phone with complicated menus that doesn't do much more than any given phone in the states.
However, with that said, as soon as somebody puts a few brain games out in the JA App store the iPhone will fly off the shelves as long as people aren't afraid of switching to SoftBank to get it. (SoftBank may be the biggest hurdle here, since DoCoMo and AU are more entrenched providers. And also more Japanese.)
That 9% would drop if Japanese people realized it doesn't do MMS. Most of the messages I send and receive are MMS. The difference between SMS and MMS is completely transparent on a Japanese phone you just type up your message and the phone sends it by whichever means is appropriate. Maybe Softbank has arranged something with Apple, but if not, switching to an iPhone means I won't be able to receive half the messages my friends send me. I don't want to switch to Mail.app for casual messaging either. That's unacceptable no matter how cool the phone is.
What a load of complete rubbish!!!
They survey'd 402 people. Yes, that's 402 people, and 91% came back saying they wouldn't want a 3g iphone. That's 366 (ish) people out of a population of how many people?
127.4 million!
As with all survey's/studies etc, take them with a complete pinch of salt. It's like TV ratings. They didn't *count* 18million people watching Pop Idol. They survey'd about 5 thousand, and multiplied that number to reach an average of the population.
It's all completely made up.
That 9% would drop if Japanese people realized it doesn't do MMS. Most of the messages I send and receive are MMS. The difference between SMS and MMS is completely transparent on a Japanese phone you just type up your message and the phone sends it by whichever means is appropriate. Maybe Softbank has arranged something with Apple, but if not, switching to an iPhone means I won't be able to receive half the messages my friends send me. I don't want to switch to Mail.app for casual messaging either. That's unacceptable no matter how cool the phone is.
What a load of complete rubbish!!!
They survey'd 402 people. Yes, that's 402 people, and 91% came back saying they wouldn't want a 3g iphone. That's 366 (ish) people out of a population of how many people?
127.4 million!
As with all survey's/studies etc, take them with a complete pinch of salt. It's like TV ratings. They didn't *count* 18million people watching Pop Idol. They survey'd about 5 thousand, and multiplied that number to reach an average of the population.
It's all completely made up.
A statistical poll is always taken from a small sample of people. The sample has to be diverse and include different types of people from various walks of life. As long as the sample is large enough to include enough of the different types of people, it can be indicative of what the mass population would say to within a few percentage points.
That is how almost all research studies are compiled, not just this one.