Disney Internet Group is not expecting its US operations to approach its success in Japan anytime in the near future, one of their executives told me. The guess here is that things will change when color phones saturate the market. One in every three cell phones in the US will have a color display within 6 months, according to Seamus McAteer at Zelos Group, a San Francisco-based technology consulting firm.
After all the trashing Western skeptics have done on Japan’s non-exportable cartoonish content, Hello Kitty content is coming to AT&T Wireless’s mMode! I guess it makes sense, it is a very recognized Japanese brand here; I think most people don’t even know that it’s Japanese actually.
Last week, sr. contributing editor Michael Thuresson sent in a user-level review of his new Sanyo handset that he uses on the Sprint network. As you scroll through a list of tones, you cannot sample them before you buy them. Hard for people new to this idea to get interested if they can’t do that!
