Talk:I-mode

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There was once strong support for WAP within DoCoMo. It becomes obvious now whatever technical differences between WAP and i-mode are irrelevant to the success of wireless Internet services. Both WAP and i-mode succeeded in Japan. Wasabie 2005/07/12.

iMode and Wikipedia
is there a way to access Wikipedia via iMode? --Abdull 18:42, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

UK slant
Why does the article concentrate on the UK aspect of i-mode? e.g. listing the UK i-mode phones etc. --Oscarthecat 18:04, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Types of i-Mode (by Varun Choudhary)
i-mode are are of two type "japan" imode and "global" imode. Global imode means non-japan. Both imode (japan and global) are docomo "technology" but for japan there is a difference as their phones are FOMA based. so japanese phones are FOMA imode...

--- Not quite. FOMA is simply DoCoMo's marketing name for their 3G network and related handsets. DoCoMo's older CDMA based network (now called MOVA) is still very much up and running and i-mode is available on both FOMA and MOVA, although much of the more recent content is slanted towards FOMA users and their higher end handsets and higher bandwidth.

NPOV
this technologies usage is declining in the number of countries contrary to what the article states.

That would actually not be a NPOV breach but a factual error. Maybe find a source supporting your claim and then correct the article? --Fred zen 15:28, 26 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I don't know the situation in other countries, but in Germany imode phones are no longer available! Eplus, the German KPN subsidiary which offered imode in Germany, announced in June 2006 to shut down the imode service until the end of the year. Unfortunately i found no english website to support this, but here is a German source: http://www.teltarif.de/arch/2006/kw23/s21907.html You can also try to find an imode phone on the (German) website of Eplus: http://www.eplus.de/ - You will find nothing... 86.56.0.159 15:17, 1 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I, too, can't speak for other countries, but Cellcom, a cellphone company in the Land of Israel, is pushing i-mode phones heavily and customers are accepting them steadily. The main drawback, in my humble but experienced opinion, is the built-in limit on displaying information via i-mode. Sure, it's fast, but anything will be fast when you can't load more than a few kilobytes per page and the rest gets cut off. In general I'm happy with my i-mode phone and use it constantly, but there's always room for improvement. LandOfIsrael 17:06, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

IMODE vs WAP
I mode is fast, but is proprietry technology so is commercial, whereas wap is open technology so can be made fast if sufficient effort is made.

Same "cut off" content applies to non i-mode. That limit is not affected by what technology you use. It's the cellphone that can or can not process and display a certain amount of information.

Not true. All i-mode handsets have a maximum page size of 10 kb or 20kb. Most "open" WAP phones are obviously limited, but not thatn small. It can't be claimed that i-mode is faster than WAP since i-mode has these ridiculous restrictions in place. Besides, in this day and age, with wireless speeds increasing, there is less need to keep the traffic low. Obviously operator data charges are another reason to keep traffic low but with a data plan this can become a moot point.

--- Not true - many i-mode handsets have a maximum page size much larger than 20kb. In Japan phones with 100kb+ maximum page size include the entire 901/902 range, and outside Japan many of the 3G i-mode handsets such as the NEC N600i, SonyEricsson K610im. The maximum page size on an i-mode handset can be determined by the server by a suffix sent by the phone on its user agent header.

i-mode - When was it introduced?
There is a self-contradiction in this article as I'm writing this:

"i-mode was launched in Japan on 22 February 2001." (in the first paragraph) "A few months after DoCoMo launched i-mode in February 1999" (in the second paragraph)

I'll find out when i-mode was really launched, but if someone happens to know, please edit and get the right date. Thanks Syamil (talk) 15:53, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

This article must be updated
The i-Mode is the mother of all Mobile Internet services. This short article does not give it justice. It focusses on the wrong things and refers to Wap which is irrelevant to the understanding of the whole architecture. The main points of i-Mode are: - a single phone spec (many manufacturers but all compliant with DoCoMo's specifications) which is necessary to develop an ecosystem of App and service providers - Apps and services are available in the form of Java Applets - DoCoMo is the organiser of the market place and the invoices the users

It is clear that Apple is reproducing this architecture. One single terminal, the iPhone, one market place, AppStore/iTunes, and Apps (which are not Java but proprietor) Google's Android is also now trying to emulate i-Mode to compete with Apple.

i-Mode is a very important step in the history of Mobile Internet and there is really more to say about it than the display format JF Susbielle (contact@susbielle.com) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.186.12.232 (talk) 06:56, 6 September 2010 (UTC)


 * do you have and references for that? mabdul 08:40, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Agree with comments above: i-mode was the world first commercial mobile internet platform, launched Feb. 22nd 1999, and very clearly the platform model that has since been adopted by major players overseas. Note the Japanese version here on Wikipedia is far more accurate: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%E3%83%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89 (my profile for contact: https://about.me/Laars) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.38.102.180 (talk) 07:19, 22 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Is there a way of copying a translation of the Japan article to here? Without having to do it by hand? Twasonasummersmorn (talk) 00:47, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

C-HTML
It was not immediately clear to me why C-HTML redirects to this article. Ideally, there would be a separate page for C-HTML (assuming it meets notability guidelines - not sure if it does), or a section in the I-mode article that the C-HTML redirect would point to. --kewlgrapes (talk) 22:03, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

Wildly out of date article
This article looks as if there's been no real effort since about 2005, maybe 2007. The content is wildly out of date. Are there any editors working on this page? Twasonasummersmorn (talk) 22:34, 18 December 2019 (UTC)