Actually, it's already extremely widely adopted in Japan, KDDI's home turf. Since SMS networks are closed between carriers in Japan, everyone must exchange four pieces of information with new contacts: Name, Phonetic Name Reading (thanks to the ways Chinese characters are used in Japan), Phone Number, and MMS Address. It gets very tedious to type all of that information, so in the past few years, everyone has instead been exchanging their data via VCF over IR.
If only people in America weren't so averse to stuff like this.
"SMS networks are closed between carriers in Japan..."
WOAH, that is an interesting little fact. I've always thought of Japan as sort of a cell phone mecca. It's strange to hear they're cutting off their customers to something that is just... a given here in the states.
I would assume nobody there cares about SMS either. MMS is more capable and probably works out better for the network too even though it carries more information (due to the way it's handled).
Email is no doubt wildly in use on phones too, since it's so much more universal I can only see that as a good thing.
Since I (and pretty much anyone else with a data plan) can send as many emails as they want far cheaper than SMS or even free, it's really quite confusing that people have not yet moved on. Especially because SMS is so expensive in a lot of places.
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I don't see this being very successful/widely adopted...
Actually, it's already extremely widely adopted in Japan, KDDI's home turf. Since SMS networks are closed between carriers in Japan, everyone must exchange four pieces of information with new contacts: Name, Phonetic Name Reading (thanks to the ways Chinese characters are used in Japan), Phone Number, and MMS Address. It gets very tedious to type all of that information, so in the past few years, everyone has instead been exchanging their data via VCF over IR.
If only people in America weren't so averse to stuff like this.
(And I say America because I'm not sure if people in other western countries are similarly averse =)
"SMS networks are closed between carriers in Japan..."
WOAH, that is an interesting little fact. I've always thought of Japan as sort of a cell phone mecca. It's strange to hear they're cutting off their customers to something that is just... a given here in the states.
I would assume nobody there cares about SMS either.
MMS is more capable and probably works out better for the network too even though it carries more information (due to the way it's handled).
Email is no doubt wildly in use on phones too, since it's so much more universal I can only see that as a good thing.
Since I (and pretty much anyone else with a data plan) can send as many emails as they want far cheaper than SMS or even free, it's really quite confusing that people have not yet moved on. Especially because SMS is so expensive in a lot of places.