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| Subject: | Re: MobileLBSList: judging which wap phone to buy: |
| Date: |
09/07/2000 11:59:25 AM |
| From: |
Hung-Hsien Chang |
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If I recalled correctly, there was a chart on the 'head counts'
of how many WAP, i-mode users in Japan, Europe, Asia and(?) States.
And even so, Japanese are still top the chart.
Also, there are quiet a few WAP enabled phone doesn't support
WMLScripting (yet).
Let's what WAP color/large screen could bring for us in terms
of the growth of statistics of users population. ( broken
down by continents.)
Eagerly waiting for the 2001 May and see how 3G is going to
take off in Japan. Is there a definitive specification
on the 3G forms ( in terms of weight, size, screen size,
battery life, and possibly cost and pricing model?)
Thanks.
Hubert
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Gerhard Fasol wrote:
> Sorry for the misunderstanding.
> The percentages are not in terms of local population but
> refer to the global distribution of WAP users, i.e.
> 55% of WAP users live in Japan, 31% of WAP users live in
> Korea, 13% of WAP users are in Europe etc.
>
> I did not mean that 55% of Japanese people use WAP!
> (Actually approx. 3% of Japanese people are WAP users,
> which is also astonishingly high!)
>
> Please let me know if I am wrong!
>
> You can find out more at the imode-FAQ:
> http://www.eurotechnology.com/imode/faq.html
>
> Best regards,
>
> Gerhard Fasol
> Eurotechnology Japan K. K.
> http://www.eurotechnology.com/
> fasol@eurotechnology.com
>
> Hung-Hsien Chang wrote:
> >
> > The percentage is in terms of the population?
> > Also, how do you count Europe? ( EU as a whole?)
> >
> > On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Gerhard Fasol wrote:
> >
> > > > RKumar wrote:
> > > >
> > > > But really getting anything done on a WAP phone is quite a pain...
> > >
> > > This is not necessarily true: in Japan their are approx. 4 million
> > > WAP users, and their numbers are increasing rapidly.
> > >
> > > Thus Japanese users seem to enjoy WAP phones, and don't seem to see
> > > WAP as a pain - if they would, there is DoCoMo's imode waiting :)
> > >
> > > What is true however, is that WAP usage outside Japan & Korea is
> > > pretty slow and the numbers below confirm you statement:
> > >
> > > WAP users worldwide:
> > >
> > > 55% Japan
> > > 31% Korea
> > > 13% Europe
> > > 1% Rest of World
> > >
> > > This has to do with business models and other factors, some of
> > > which you can find explained in our imode-FAQ:
> > > http://www.eurotechnology.com/imode/faq.html
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Gerhard Fasol
> > > Eurotechnology Japan K. K.
> > > http://www.eurotechnology.com/
> > > fasol@eurotechnology.com
> > >
> > >
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