It's actually huge. Think crowded trains, like in Japan. I always wondered what the whole i-mode success was based on, until I went there last october. Thousands of people, stuck in a train for an hour or more, holding on with one hand. So what do you do? You play with your i-mode phone with your other hand. Thats why all the phone models there are long and thin, so you can operate the phone and text input with one hand. Even if it's slower than a keyboard, and the screen sucks it's better than looking at the dandruff on the person next to you.
I think it's interesting to note how our government (the CIA no less!) through voice of america is promoting encryption and anonymous web browsing in china. It's quite a contradiction. Would we want to share our backdoors with china so they could monitor terrorist activitys within the PRC?
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010830/tc/voa_ch ina_1.html
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It's actually huge. Think crowded trains, like in Japan. I always wondered what the whole i-mode success was based on, until I went there last october. Thousands of people, stuck in a train for an hour or more, holding on with one hand. So what do you do? You play with your i-mode phone with your other hand. Thats why all the phone models there are long and thin, so you can operate the phone and text input with one hand. Even if it's slower than a keyboard, and the screen sucks it's better than looking at the dandruff on the person next to you.
I think it's interesting to note how our government (the CIA no less!) through voice of america is promoting encryption and anonymous web browsing in china. It's quite a contradiction. Would we want to share our backdoors with china so they could monitor terrorist activitys within the PRC? http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010830/tc/voa_ch ina_1.html