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Advice on phones with Japanese f/w
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Posted by: altNz

I'm hoping that some of you Japanese f/w users and Sharp gurus can answer a couple of long time question I've had: when you type a SMS in Japanese and send it to someone be it an e-mail address or a person in Japan, does the Japanese text actually reach the destination? I've been looking for a Japanese f/w phone for some time and was looking at the 902, at the time, and the 903 now, but was wondering if there's a cheaper way out such as the 802 or 703? I've noticed that the 90x seems to have the most coverage in the forums (I can understand why), but are the 80x/70x just as stable? I guess my question is, is a 802 or now the 703 just as stable as the bench mark 903 (seems J f/w is very stable). Thanks for any insight.

Posted by: AL9999

So you know, when we talk about the 903 the same things apply to the 703 as well, as they are derived from the same firmware base. The same goes for the 902 and 802.

Having said that Japanese support is the same across all four phones and hasn't changed. However your success in using Japanese with SMS and MMS messages depends on your network operator - their servers have the potential to stuff up the encoding in messages that they process. I know with Vodafone Australia Japanese SMSs will transmit problem-free, but MMS message encoding gets completely messed up. I can't view Japanese webpages through the WAP access point either as Voda AU's WAP gateway screws up the encoding too. It's highly annoying.