Japan Windows Mobile User Mini-Interview: Lars Cosh-Ishii, Dir. Digital Media - Wireless Watch Japan

Lars Cosh-Ishii, Dir. Digital Media, Wireless Watch Japan

Is this your first Windows Mobile Device?

No..

What device are you using and how long have you had it?

I just bought the HTC -X02HT at Bic in Shinjuku last week. Better known in America as the Dash via T-Mobile and finally launched same here in Japan a few months later than initial announced release date of July (perhaps the J o/s took 'awhile' to get ported?). SoftBank Mobile is the only operator with this model here now, although SBM and DoCoMo both carried previous HTC Hermes unit.

What your experience so far?

Pretty straight forward set-up and roll right out of the box.. considering the provided users manual does not have much useful info. in English (other than typical don't get it wet, how to re-charge the battery kind of material) so still clicking around to enable basic functions like the playlist for music and preferences for screen-saver and ringtones.. set-up the POP/SMTP and Live Messenger was easy enough.

What's your favorite feature?

QWERTY is always easier than triple tapping.. would like to load Opera
and see how that works - although it's apparently not officially
advised (ha!) to do that. Having HSDPA speed is nice and I'm looking
forward to see how many open wi-fi locations are available when running around town.

What do you most dislike?

The headphone jack (same input as power supply), I have to hack a better ear-piece onto the kit they provided. Also, betting that battery power will be an "issue", even with what would be considered normal daily usage. Having to go into the task manager to close running apps is a pain.. if you have exited web or mail (or camera, messenger etc.) it should be shut down and not running in the background chewing up juice.. then again that may well be possible to set in parameters somewhere that I have not found yet?

What feature do you wish you had?

An embedded FeliCa (m-commerce) chip and 1Seg digital-tv tuner would be nice.. at least they made sure to include a QR code reader.. whew!

Any other comments?

I'll need more time to play around with it to make intelligent comments. Want to get Skype installed, I really hope the unit will be compatible with upcoming Flash Lite 3 for streaming .flv videos etc. Over-all no doubt it will be a useful device when I'm on the road.