Hey I was just wondering if there are any major japanese instant messaging system or programs being used to day and there names and where I can get them.

Im studying japanese language in College here in the USA and I want to get better at it before I study abroad in japan. any help would be greatly appreciated

heh, they all use their cell phones =P

in fact, their cell phone practically Is their computer and main form of communication.

hes rite the japanese ppl use their cellz...tehy use it to go online n do everything. they even use to as a camera. so their cell is like their pc

We watch tv on our cells, go on the internet, chat, listen to music, record messages, take pictures, take movies, and oh yeah, call people.

Most people don't have a computer in Japan. It's too expensive. But those who do probably use MSN messenger. There is a Japanese version.

On my cell we can do a ton of things...I was watching the news the other day...

Here in sweden we just got 3G sure we can watch nes and stuff but it cost like 2 dollars to see 8 miniuts and stuff like thet , sure we got Mp3 and Camera and video recording + Mpeg4 player and we can do upgrade our stuff, instant messegin to our mobile phones will soon be here, just a matter of time, but anyway do you got any pics of the japanese cells or specs. Im quite intrested in those .. not that they will work here but at least check them out.

Thanks

o.O Talk about high tech....I wonder if the States cell phones can do the same things as the Japanese cell phones. O.o

One of my Japanese translators use MSN Messenger to communicate with me. I did talk to some Japanese through MSN Messenger.

Gimme the hardware specs or ill slash your ribs and break them later on letting the blood dry!!! .. maybe not that violent .. but ill at least "Break a Leg" or two :P on someone ... Anyways, would be nice when those came here to sweden , we got at least free video talk

my friend got the x70 from Chinatown in NY and it's compatible with both America and China, Taiwan, etc.

http://www.eprice.com.tw/report/?news_id=1280
a whole list on the side there.

We have video cell phones now too, but the thing is most people don't have all the expensive features. The average Joe in Japan only has the camera besides the usual internet/mail features.

I've only seen a couple people using video phone and watching tv.

oh too bad it wasn't so super high tech like you do everything on the phone .. i would have liked that actully :>


One thing, do they have like an MSN or ICQ program in their cell phones that gos with the Operating System where to include ? or do they only use like sending SMS ? if they had like chatboards on the phone it be quite nice .. as for the internet .. how da hell do they surf on those small things .. sure if there is some special sites build for smaller phones ... does it comprimise everything .. Does Japan got like 4G as what my friend told me ? .. we just got 3G

We don't do instant messaging on our phone in your sense. We just use the mail. But since everyone is always with their phone, it's almost the same as instant messaging.

There are tons of phone sites in Japan. You can visit regular internet sites on the phone but it takes a lot longer to load and you have to do a lot of scrolling to see everything.

Yeah i just flipped over some sites, and compared to you we get like 10 phones a year, but you proberly have gotten over a thousand various species of phones :P .. anyway watch tv from the phone ? we got some new we can get down but it cost like 50 yen in your cash for like 5 min and we got only 19mb to put in our phones, i can only put in several Mp3's or a episode of from a tv or something. Cheers!

I don't mean download episodes of tv. I meant just watching streaming of what's on tv at the moment. So if you're on the train and you're missing an important soccer match, you can watch it on your phone.

Does it cost something to watch the streaming, if not it would be great and still great if you paid something a month for it. Here it's totally sux