Comments on: Of Bluetooth, iSync and Japanese Phones, Part Three

By: Big G

Big G — Sat, 14 May 2005 18:24:08 +0000

Hardmac,

thanks for this info, I’m going to go to the vodafone store at tokyo station tomorrow and I was debating getting this phone or the nokia 6630 (Vodafone 702K I think…) but I guess it can’t be sync’d with isync yet, so this may push me to getting this one instead, thanks!!

By: kurisu

kurisu — Wed, 11 May 2005 13:12:33 +0000

@bikoko : Vodafone offers SMS and MMS (from and to all Vodafone users i.e. in Japan and everywhere else, and from/to overseas networks) as well as email (c-mail) in Japan.

By: bikoko

bikoko — Wed, 11 May 2005 04:43:00 +0000

I don’t get the SMS problem, japanese carrier/phone doesn’t support SMS protocol right? Or do you mean c-mail?

My contract with AU will end in october, I’ll see then cause I like the caller id to be displayed on my comp’ screen.

Thank you for the thorough review though

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 09 May 2005 15:17:25 +0000

Thank you for saving me the time, money, and disappointment of going out to buy this phone here in Tokyo as I was planning. Indeed, I’m sure the bugs will be corrected eventually, and when they are, I’ll buy the phone.

Please keep us all posted on the site once these bugs (especially the caller-ID problem) are fixed.

Also, if you get the phone unlocked so you can travel outside Japan and use a different carrier (as some online have already), please tell us.

By: moose

moose — Fri, 06 May 2005 07:54:05 +0000

That behaviour (no acknowledgement of sent SMS) has been around since the begining of iSync and Bluetooth: it did the same on my Siemens S55 (please can someone shoot the dog that ate it?) and it does the same both on my K700i and my wife’s T6xx (can’t remember the exact ref).

By: Edge@51

Edge@51 — Fri, 06 May 2005 07:27:33 +0000

I have too a problem with my k700i (Sony Ericsson): when I send a SMS, the SMS is send, but I have no informations about that: neither “Message sent” nor “Ok” :0( I hope that Tiger will make this well …