Vox Hunt: Cell Phone (Once & Future)
Show us your current cellphone and/or your dream cellphone.
Submitted by Reika Lee.
My current phone is the Sony Ericsson SO902i. It's only available on NTT DoCoMo, hence why it sucks compared to European/Asian phones. It has a 3MP camera, no walkman, no bluetooth, no Symbian applications can be installed, only signed Java applications can run on it. It does have a FeliCa chip built in though, and that is its redeeming feature.
My dream cellphone? Either the iPhone or any modern Nokia. Seriously, I know that most of you have heard that Japanese cellphones are light years ahead of anything you've seen. That's simply not true at all. Since the mobile phone operators decide what features their phones have, they don't want any one phone to have all the cool features, forcing you to change phones after a while. They certainly don't want interoperability with anything, because then you could customise it with stuff you didn't buy from them! And most of the "cool" features you hear about are totally useless. Like 1seg. TV on your phone! Only problem? It won't work if you've travelling. Like on a train. Which is exactly when you WOULD use it.
My dream cellphone? Either the iPhone or any modern Nokia. Seriously, I know that most of you have heard that Japanese cellphones are light years ahead of anything you've seen. That's simply not true at all. Since the mobile phone operators decide what features their phones have, they don't want any one phone to have all the cool features, forcing you to change phones after a while. They certainly don't want interoperability with anything, because then you could customise it with stuff you didn't buy from them! And most of the "cool" features you hear about are totally useless. Like 1seg. TV on your phone! Only problem? It won't work if you've travelling. Like on a train. Which is exactly when you WOULD use it.
