Japan Leads The Mobile Technology Marketplace

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While western designers and manufacturers find it hard to corner the mobile web market, even though debate rages as to whether the actual mobile web actually has any worth to the western world, Japan is surging forward with its mobile internet applications and devices. Those in the understand say that Japan reaches least five years ahead of the western world when it comes to mobile technology and it appears as if despite recent steps forward (3G apple iphone) the gap is extending all the time.

Now Jajah, the VoIP service provider offers joined eMobile to release a brand new kind of mobile telephone systems service that will only be available in Japan (for now at least). The service will run on the handheld device that operates on a cellular data network as well as Jason Kincaid, from Techcruch This, believes that it represents what all telephone networks will eventually turn out to be.

The thing that makes this a rather unusual prediction with regard to telephone services would be that the device on which it is used (Sharp EMoONE Ultra Mobile Device) lacks a radio for voice phone calls, even though it supports ...
... a good HSDPA high-speed data network. The program developed by Jajah and eMobile provides the data-only device portable telephone capabilities. Currently users are able to make outgoing calls, but have to pay a regular monthly subscription for a Direct Inward Dialling (DID) number to be able to receive calls. And this is what Kincaid believes the future of telecommunications will become -- VoIP over information.

But what works in Japan may not necessarily work for other nations around the world, no matter how much experts and innovators may want them to. According to a Techcrunch article by Serkan Toto, there are 90 zillion 3G in use within Japan and over 70% of people subscribe to mobile web data plans. At the same time only 23.8% of america population own 3rd generation phones, which is still better than the Eleven.1% of the European populace.

Serkan Toto believes that one of the reasons for the large difference lies in the fact that Japoneses companies never attempted to recreate the " cable " internet experience upon mobile phones, instead these people worked to develop "unique mobile ecosystems" designed specifically to enhance the actual cell phone experience. Additionally, email on cell phones was enabled from the very start, so individuals learned to rely on their phones for his or her emailing needs as well as largely ignored email features on Computers. Despite some issues - insufficient Cascading stylesheet, lack of cookie support and restrictions through operators and the federal government - the mobile web in Japan is fast, advanced, stable and user-friendly.

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