The following images show the i-mode menu screens on a SH900i 3G/FOMA handset.
imode screen images of a SH900i 3G/FOMA handset (240 x 320 pixel)
7.3 Should I use an imode emulator in order to develop imode content?
Of course you can use an imode emulator to develop your content. However, we believe this is not
a very good way to develop imode content. One reason is, that in order to develop imode content
for Japanese consumers you need to be in touch with Japanese users. So you need to have a feel
for their needs as well as for the key touches needed to reply etc. Also there are many different
imode enabled handsets. Some have only black-and-white screens, others have color, others allow
only still gif images, while many display animated gifs. In addtion, the line breaks appear differently
on different handsets. In order to develop successful content, you really need to test you content
on real imode handsets. Since these are so easily available in Japan, there it's difficult to see why
to use emulators in Japan.
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7.4 Can I look at imode webpages with my ordinary Netscape or Internet-Explorer browser?
Of course, since cHTML is an extended subset of HTML you can use your Netscape or IE browser to look
at imode pages. Try it out and look at some of our imode pages here:
http://www.eurotechnology.com/i/
or http://www.eu-japan.com/i/. However:
(a) at the moment
99.999% of imode users are Japanese and therefore almost all imode content is in Japanese language. Therefore you
will need a Japanese enabled browser,
(b) you will not be able to see imode-only tags (such as the
links which dial a telephone connection directly from the imode handset in Japan -
you can find a list of imode compatible html 2.0 tags here),
(c) you will not be able to
see the many special DoCoMo-imode symbols (see:
you can find the list of DoCoMo's special symbols here). These will usually be replaced by a question mark.
So looking at an imode page with an ordinary PC based browser will give you an idea, but will not exactly reproduce what
imode users see on their handsets.
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