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.
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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.