Another Strong Competitor = KEITAI

KEITAI = KEITAI Denwa = Mobile Phone in Japanese.
KEITAI is strong competitor for palm.
But especially for Japanese Market, Mobile phone can
bring more happiness than palm can.

KEITAI steps 3 years forward than any other country's mobile phone.
In these days, GSM mobile phone can support multimedea functions.
But Japanese KEITAI can support
e-mail, web,Movie Mail,TV Phone, watching TV,mp3,Karaoke,GPS Navigation etc.
They have supported same function as MMS before GSM could do.

Of course, our palm smart phone Treo can do these function with additional applications or accesories. However, Treo cannot use in Japan as phone, because PDC or W-CDMA is the major system in Japan(no GSM systems).

But what makes KEITAI is stronger than palm is the tremendous cheap price.

Usually, we can buy New model of KEITAI under 20,000 yen(= same price as Zire 31).
So Japanese thinks Zire 72, Tungstens are quite expensive.
Every 3month, we have New model of KEITAI, and old models can be bought with 1 yen.
But they still have enough multimedia function.
Japanese KEITAI career sells KEITAI itself with cheap price, but talking fee is expensive.
(This is the way of mobile phone business in Japan.)

Japanese can get many functions with cheap price, and new model comes every 3 months.
Clie is fighting such a unique and tough market.
So I can understand why palmOne and Handspring escaped from Japanese Market.