Understanding The Japanese Wireless Market

Brent writes "In this installment of 'Secrets of the wireless elite,' you'll learn about the prevalent technologies in the Japanese market. In addition, it shows why publishing Web sites for wireless -- while not technically revolutionary -- is where the market is right now."

Comments

Tip #1 (from the article)

[GreyWolf3000]

Don't use a lot of graphics. They take time and cost money to download, and they're not cached so they have to be downloaded again and again. If you do need to use graphics, make them as small and lightweight as possible.

I sure wish people would do this for normal websites :) This is another good reason why honestly all websites should have a text-only version (on top of links).

Contents and Payment

[e8johan]

The reason the Japaneese use the wireless media so much is because they have good contents (in the meaning worth paying for) and a good, centralized system for distibuting the micro-payments to the contents providers.
This is the difference between the Japanees wireless market and the European and US markets. Why is this so? Because NTT DoCoMo has realized that they can't expect good contents if they take all the profit as our (EU+US) mobile service providers try to do.

J2ME has no floating point, either

[mparaz]

"Unlike J2ME, there's no floating point arithmetic in DoCoMo's DOJA spec, so when I need to do calculations I use the MathFP class (for fixed-point calculations) written by Onno Hommes."

Sorry but the J2ME CLDC doesn't support floating point, either. Isn't that a power consumption issue?

Re:Do you think this could be used for dating?

[Anarchos]

Yeah that is completely wrong. KIDS are the ones who will adopt new technology the quickest; adults will be very slow to incorporate technology into their social networks. Just look at the instant messaging use, as an example. IM is entirely integrated into the teenage dating structure yet adult usage is abysmal.