Mobile Phones w/ Support for Chinese Characters?

antifoidulus asks: "I am learning both Chinese and Japanese(well, I can converse in Japanese, but I can only say that I want to eat stuff in Chinese!) and I was curious if there were any phones available in the US which I can use to read/write Chinese/Japanese characters. I frequently communicate with friends in Japan, and I would like be able to send Japanese mail on my phone. I have a Japanese phone, but it seems Verizon says that it will not work on their network. I would prefer to have something that I can upload Java programs to, so I can customize my language practice."

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[Spark00]

Don't know where you are in the US, but if you're in a city with a large asian population you may try what we do here in Toronto. At a local Chinese mall you can have your phone from someplace else 'adjusted' to work on whichever network you want. So if provider A has a lock on a certain brand or model, but you're on provider B, they can change the 'frequency'. likewise with phones from HK , japan, europe etc.

my use of ' quotes means i have no clue what they do or how, or how much it pisses off the providers, but i know they can do this.

Friends have bought phones that are not offered in the US or Canada, and they work just fine, others have brought back phones from China and they aslo work fine.