Cellphone keyboard from Reudo

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aragoto on 2004/04/19:

  „K-Tai Watch brings news of a kind of gadget that seems to be particular to Japan--the external cellphone keyboard. It's perhaps a reflection of the fact that while cellphones here are tremendously advanced, we don't yet have anything equivalent to the PDA phones exemplified by the Treo 600. The Reudo RBK-320 works only with Japanese Vodafone models and costs about Y15,000, which pricing would seem to doom it to very low sales indeed--given that Vodafone's in the midst of a full-on discounting drive to try and hang on to some market share until its first decent 3G handsets come out later this year, that's probably about the same price as most of its current phones.“

http://www.dottocomu.com/b/archives/001293.html - Cached

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TV watch from NH Japan

  „Specifically, the battery life has gone down to "up to an hour" from "up to two hours"; the company is now billing it as a "lightweight wearable TV" that can be attached to either a wrist strap or a neck strap (ugh), which doesn't perk up our gadget antennae half as much as a "wristwatch TV"; and lastly, the reason for this deemphasis of the wristwatch TV idea appears to be that to get decent battery life you need to attach the screen to a monster external battery pack (that's it lurking in the background of the photo). That'll get you three hours' televisual enjoyment, but we can't help feeling that if we were going to carry around something that big, we'd want it to have a bigger screen. Ultimately, this seems like the kind of product that'll be great when battery technology catches up, but whose time hasn't quite come yet.“

Found at a page of aragoto, posted on 2004/04/13

http://www.dottocomu.com/b/archives/001281.html - Cached

Twice a month, other people, send nowhere: Cameraphone usage survey

  „K-Tai Watch reports on a survey into Japanese cameraphone usage trends by Info-Plant that on the face of it appears to confirm what we knew and feared, and to bode ill for the future of moblogs (and carriers' data revenues): Most people use their phone's camera two or three times a month, to take pictures of their family or friends, which they either view on the same phone or use as standby screens. Extracts from the survey quoted by K-Tai Watch include:“

Found at a page of aragoto, posted on 2004/04/13

http://www.dottocomu.com/b/archives/001283.html - Cached

Cellphone keyboard from Reudo

  „It's perhaps a reflection of the fact that while cellphones here are tremendously advanced, we don't yet have anything equivalent to the PDA phones exemplified by the Treo 600. The Reudo RBK-320 works only with Japanese Vodafone models and costs about Y15,000, which pricing would seem to doom it to very low sales indeed--given that Vodafone's in the midst of a full-on discounting drive to try and hang on to some market share until its first decent 3G handsets come out later this year, that's probably about the same price as most of its current phones.“

Found at a page of aragoto, posted on 2004/04/19

http://www.dottocomu.com/b/archives/ cat_gadgets.html#002382 - Cached

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