That we have SMS and Email and the Japanese have Sky and Long Mail is probably more than a coincidence. But then we have the Blackberry phenomena and now Nokia's push email solution? But maybe the latter two only work because they are used for business related stuff.

The Light-touch Japanese Experience

Japan has never had SMS, as DoCoMo was intelligent enough to see the similarity between email and shorter text messages early on. However, it does have a seperate type of e-mail it seems, which blurs the line a bit. Most Japanese will have two email addresses. One for their computer (i.e. gmail or hotmail) and one for their phone, and frequently they don't check the computer one often. My pre-paid phone has two options when you send a mail "sky mail" and "long mail". The first is similar to SMS. It has a 128 character limit and can include smileys. I think it is cheap or free to send these short messages to other japan mobile addresses. This is what most friends use to chat, gossip and meet up. This only works for other japanese mobile phones I think. There is also the option of long mail, where you plug in a normal e-mail address and have the full length options. This is more expensive, but not prohibitvely so.

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Sadly the japanese characters do not work with my phone. Does anyone know how to get the japanese characterset on a 6630?

Via Bill Pellowe's Word Document

See also:
ELT Calendar (www.eltcalendar.com)
ELT Podcast (www.eltpodcast.com)
JALT National Online Calendar (jalt.org/calendar)

Cool ideas about how to use QR Codes are popping up:) There was Leu's QR Code Rally, QR Codes in the classrooms and now there is Stephen's mobile game download. Well I guess I just have to buy the Flash Lite 2.0 player.

Game Download through QR Code:



Directly downloads "Journey of Jin mobisode 2 v1.6", a revised version of Stephen Erin Dinehart's thesis project, to a Flash Lite 2. 0 web enabled mobile device.

Introduction to Animation in Flash Lite 1.1 by Mobile and Devices Developer Center, Adobe

Although the Flash Lite 1.1 player has been out for a while to developers, it's now starting to make an impact in the marketplace by being preinstalled on many new models of handsets being released in 2006. It's an exciting time for those of us working in the space, and we hope that more and more Flash developers will look at getting into mobile content.

This article is based on the Flash Lite 1.1: Mobile Application Development instructor-led training course we developed. It shows you the type of content contained within the training curriculum. It is aimed squarely at mobile developers who have little experience with Flash as well as existing Flash developers who wish to make the leap to developing mobile content.