Getting a cellphone in japan

If you get any prepaid phone in Japan, get softbank. With softbank prepaid you can send e-mail, with AU just c-mail. I'm stuck with AU as my Japanese mother didn't know any better and it's annoying as shit.

 

What do you mean transfered? And you mean the SIM/account gets cancelled, not the phone..

Yeah, you should be able to get a charger easily in any Y100 shop or combini.

 

a 100Y shop that sounds cool.
uhm

here is my issue,
im trying to get a phone FROM japan to Canada.
and i know it was unlocked and working in north america.
but the thing is a charger is needed. :lol:
last one is broken
any tips or advice? :lol:
( Phone model W53H)

on a side note:
if your phone is "canceled" what i think is not understood is that means its just a carrier locked phone, that is why we have unlocking software i THINK that would work wouldn't it?

 

A 4,000 yen device (and cutting the corner off of your Sim card) can apparently make short work of that.

As per Jamtex, you should look into a generic AU charger. Battery based ones are like 600 yen in any convenient store. There are also USB ones, but note that some phones have a nice, retarded feature that requires you to install their software (Softbank, for one) to charge via USB. Hooking it up to a Linux box in my case worked w/o the software though.

You could try a Yahoo Japan deputy service.

 

I saw that SIM thing on Youtube
i thought it was a joke for someone to ruin their card
guess not!


and as well yea thats a perfect idea :110: thanks again for that,
i probably will post an ad if i get the phone saying reward for finding me a charger! which ill pay whomever buys it refund + yada.
:thumbsup: thats a fair deal i think

 

btw the Softbank prepaid site has all sorts of info and price plans except for one thing... exactly how much is one of those prepaid sets?

 

About 8000 Yen, although they can be a pain to find unless you go to larger branches of Softbank, as most of the normal sized ones don't sell them and convience stores generally stock about 2 and are frequently sold out...

 

Ill try the stores with english-speaking clerks listed at the site first

 

Go to Haraujuku. It's huge. They can't not have it, and they definitely have English speaking staff (gaijin, even).

 

Hey guys!
Im pumped :nod: I won the auction


http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=180341238246&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=008

Those are horrid pictures of it, but its a cool phone in my eyes :icon_bigg

I was curious on a bit more direction onto finding an AC adaptor for it.
previous posts said the 1000Y shops if im right, well i don't live in japan sadly so I cannot browse it

I was just asking if anyone had the heart to inform me a bit more or able to lend a helping hand :thumbsup: I can maybe Mail a free DS game of Spyro The dragon in return * free anywhere in north america*

 

Went to the Omotesando shop today and apparently all the prepaid sets are sold out in every shop according to the staff member...

 

Went and to look for info at AU's site about pre-paid phones and looks like its also sold out in every shop nationwide http://www.au.kddi.com/english/prepaid/list.html


this is starting to look fishy, all the pre-paid services misteriously sold out in every single shop

 

Well there is Softbank too which allows email so is better then the Au service.

Prepaid phones are tricky to find, they do seemed to have got a bit more strict with the distribution of them.