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.

Japan Windows Mobile User Mini-Interview: Ryo Umezawa, Business Development Manager, J-Seed Ventures Inc./Mobikyo K.K.

Ryo Umezawa, Business Development Manager, J-Seed Ventures Inc./Mobikyo K.K.

Is this your first Windows Mobile Device?

Yes

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

HTC (X02HT) and I have used it for four days since October 2, 2007.

What's your experience so far?

So far so good! Mail downloads well and synchronizes with the computer!

What's your favorite feature?

Using Google Maps on it and searching the map in real time.

What do you most dislike?

Can not synchronize with the Mac using the HTC software...
(Ed: I guess this refers to ActiveSync)

What feature do you wish you had?

Skype call function.
(Ed: I sent the link for the Skype download for WM Standard. Interested to hear from other Japan users how much success they have had with this).

Any other comments?

More compatibility for Mac!

Japan Windows Mobile User Mini-Interview: Dave Mori, Founder and President English OK and Entrepreneur Association of Tokyo

Here's the first in what I plan to be a series of mini interviews with Windows Mobile Users in Japan. I was surprised that I unearthed a few issues that already have solutions, but to give an accurate picture of what user's are experiencing I left Dave's answers as they are and posted my thoughts below. Please follow up with thoughts of your own in the comments thread.

Dave Mori, Founder and President, English OK & Entrepreneur Association of Tokyo

Is this your first Windows Mobile Device?

Yes

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

I am using the X02Ht and I have had it since the first day it came out here in Tokyo, September 22, 2007.

What's your experience so far?

Honestly, it's been life changing. I have a lot of meetings outside of the office and I like to keep up with emails or make notes whenever I have a free moment so I would end up lugging my heavy laptop all over the place and would feel sore and exhausted by the end of the day. I feel much better leaving my laptop at the office and just checking on my device every couple of hours. My shoulders and back are thanking me!!

What's your favorite feature?

I haven't utilized the calendar yet so I would say having the ability to check my POP email accounts is my favorite feature.

What do you most dislike?

The keys are a little small for longer email messages, the office products like word and excel are missing a few basic functions that make using or viewing them a little bit troublesome. Although I don't mind that much my colleagues seem to dislike the volume of my ringtone. Three of us took a crack at trying to figure out how to drop the volume but there doesn't seem to be ringtone volume control.

What feature do you wish you had?

lol, this is dreaming but a Sync solution for my Mac and a Sync function with gCalendar.

Any other comments?

So far, so happy ;) Would definitely recommend it to people who hate lugging their laptops around town and who have a slight addiction to checking emails like me.