Comment Well the situation in Japan (Score 1) 601
As the Japanese mobile market has accellerated ahead of most other countries, its a good idea to look to them to see whats to come.
I was over on a trip there recently: Clamshell phones with 1 to 2 mega pixel cameras, 10000 channel polyphonic melodies, large full colour tft screens - and even tv tuners, are quite the norm. Oh and as for games, you can play games as complex as Ridge Racer, Metal Slug or Strider on them, i even saw some guy playing what looked similar to Ogre Tactics.
However there IS still a market for the plain jane vanilla phone. However they tend to be very avant garde minimalist design, and advertised in Art and Desginer magazines... targeting the creative crowd i think. But this is a very small market.
Personally I would go for the simple phones, without the bells and whistles, that looks stylish, and can take a beating.
I was over on a trip there recently: Clamshell phones with 1 to 2 mega pixel cameras, 10000 channel polyphonic melodies, large full colour tft screens - and even tv tuners, are quite the norm. Oh and as for games, you can play games as complex as Ridge Racer, Metal Slug or Strider on them, i even saw some guy playing what looked similar to Ogre Tactics.
However there IS still a market for the plain jane vanilla phone. However they tend to be very avant garde minimalist design, and advertised in Art and Desginer magazines... targeting the creative crowd i think. But this is a very small market.
Personally I would go for the simple phones, without the bells and whistles, that looks stylish, and can take a beating.
