Comments on: iPhone, the Japanese way

By: Japanese Phrases

Japanese Phrases — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:53:25 +0000

Tom, I find that typing in Japanese is more difficult on the iphone. It is however, much easier to type in English.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:02:08 +0000

What is typing Japanese like on an iPhone? Is it better than trying to type in English?

By: Francesco Gallarotti

Francesco Gallarotti — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:38:59 +0000

Do you guys know of any link to some cool iPhone case “made in Japan”?

By: Francesco Gallarotti

Francesco Gallarotti — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:37:11 +0000

I guess the iPhone has the same problem in the US and in Japan then… the crappiest network with the highest number of dropped calls. If iPhone had been on Verizon instead of AT&T here in the US it would have sold at least more than double than what it did so far.

By: Toru

Toru — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:47:11 +0000

One of the reason, I guess, that its really hard to appeal to casual mobile phone users are that the Japanese mobile phones are so advanced enough to make iPhone so dated. The camera, tv, osaifu-keitai, etc.

The other is that, unfortunately you need to switch to the crappiest mobile network, that is the SoftBank. urghhh. It has the worst reception, even in Tokyo. Where I get full reception, my friend in SB can’t. If DoCoMo starts selling iPhone, I think many will jump onto it.

By: hunterthebunter

hunterthebunter — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:47:24 +0000

I was in Rikugien yesterday to shoot the momiji and people were watching TV on their phone while walking around the beautiful park…

By: Charles Lacz

Charles Lacz — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:44:56 +0000

I see a lot of people watching TV on their phones too. Not so much on the trains, as it can have problems if you are moving too fast. Often salary men are watching it at lunch or in the coffe shops and there is always at least one person watching it at the local coin laundry or CoCoIchi. I’ve even seen a couple people watching it on the iPhone.

By: Alfie Goodrich

Alfie Goodrich — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:11:24 +0000

Hi Joshua. Not sure which trains Hunter was on but in my experience, on my two local overground lines – the Keihin Tohoku and Keikyu – I still see plenty of people watching TV on their phones and, in fact, these days the number of women watching TV on their keitais is getting greater. Havent yet been on the train when I havent seen at least a couple of people watching TV in my carriage. And in the baseball season you can guarantee there’ll be folk watching the TV on their phones…

By: Joshua Zimmerman

Joshua Zimmerman — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:06:46 +0000

I don’t know what trains you’ve been on in Japan, but its a rare site to see people watching TV on their phones. I see vast numbers of people listening to music, playing cell phone games, or playing a Nintendo DS, but very very few ever watching TV. This from a guy who commuted two hours a day for nearly four years.

In fact, everyone I know who has TV on their phone stopped using it after the first week of owning their phone. Their main complaint was that they only got two channels, and that it constantly cut out or was fuzzy. Sure, it is nice in theory, but for the vast majority of the Japanese population (those who don’t live in Tokyo or Osaka) the quality is so bad that its not worth using.