Importing JP Cellphone?

I never see them up on ebay. All I can see is dummy useless phones...
Are they illegal outside Japan?

Can they be used in Europe with any sim card operator if they're unlocked?

 

Hmm, interesting...
Btw, any good recomendations, is it really worth it? (considering the customs will not charge anything..)

 

I have one for sale on eBay.

Martinishere

As assembler said, hypersims and signal outs are a pain - I'm selling a factory unlocked taiwanese model.

 

I have a Sharp Aquos Japanese phone that you can buy. Has some games on it plus Oneseg digtal TV for mobile. Not sure if that will work outside Asia though. I know it will work in Korea though.

Yakumo

 

It'll most likely require a hypersim as they don't factory unlock them... Yet

 

i have people in Singapore who can get it Software unlock. There's a hypersim programmer here.

But i have problem getting one frm Japan. I heard from the person here who got me one that its a pain filling up the forms.

 

I was actually interested in the Aquos 940sh model: http://page10.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/m76159846

What Aquos model do you have Yakumo?

 

Can JPN cells run with out a sim in/to them? Like if I just wanted to be able to access software/games on the phone but not use it as an actual phone?

 

Most of them will give you the "enter the SIM card error". At least the few models I had.

I tried unlocking a few outside of Japan and got thoroughly fucked off. iPhone + jailbreak + unlock = boner. No more headaches.

 

Tbh, it's not worth the hassle. Japanese phones nowadays aren't light years ahead of Western phones as they used to be, using it in English is just gonna be annoying when texting people (seeing as you're from portugal, you can rest assure they won't support that language so T9 is out of the question) and they're relatively overpriced and a hassle to get outside of Japan.

 

I want a Sharp SH-06a NERV phone...

 

I'm really into my phones; let me explain.

Softbank phones have a multimedia lock. Unless connected to the soft bank network (or disconnected for less than one month without sim removal) you cannot use the camera or the video playback. Tv won't work anywhere else in the world. It's very hard to get hypersims to unlock these phones.

Docomo models can be used without sims for camera and video playback, and they tend to only SMS to 79 characters.

No models have useable internet without a carrier sim

Only NEC and some Toshibas have English T9; nothing for other languages.

Closest you can get are Chinese or taiwanese sharps, like the one I am selling as they're all unlocked. Best models they made are the 930sh and ; I have both.

Games downloaded on one phone cannot be used with another sim because of drm.

Let me know if I can help more.

 

903 is one of the very best cellphone i ever used.

Actually i read from some where that some companies in Japan will sell unlocked phones soon.

If you guys need hypersim or something.. i can help u guys get. i know the reputed guy doing it personally, not bootlegs.

 

How true. Until a few years back Japanese phones kicked arse but it seems they just stopped with any invention once the iphone came out and kept adding pointless shit. No innovation at all in the last 2 years when it comes to Japanese phones. Even their smart phones are bollocks compared to the iPhone or say the Samsung Galaxy.

The Sharp I'm selling is about 2 years old. It's the 911SH

 

Here's a gallery of my two phones at the moment, which are completely unlocked and have working net comms.

Whilst some of it is pointless, the SH-07B and SH-09B have dictionaries built in whereby one simply points the phone's camera at kanji, kana or English and are presented with a multitude of translations and dictionary options.

The SH-07B also has full HD video recording, though I am sure the next iPhone will.

I have the iPad and I used to have an iPhone. I simply prefer flip phones. People seem to get very passionate about phones and say that something is shit just because the facebook app isn't as good.

If you don't use 8 million fart applications and prefer flip phones, then Japan really has the best phones.

If you want a "smart" - what does that mean? - phone, then go with the iPhone.

And yes, next year, phones might well be SIM unlocked in Japan. The exact terms are not currently known.

 

HD video on ALL portable devices is poor. I have a few mobile HD video compatible devices and they all have the same problems as normal mobile video cameras apart from now the image is HD. This is why I use a real Panasonic full HD Video camera for videos. The iPhone4 does HD video by the way.

I bought the 3Gs a few months back because I wanted to upgrade my phone. I've always been a Japanese phone user, mostly Sharp or Panasonic but these days I can't find one that out does the iPhone or top end android. The kanji option you mentioned is cool but I can do the same thing on my 3Gs as well as many other very useful features such as a full navi system that doesn't need any 3G or WiFi signal just like a car navi.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not Apple fan boy, in fact I think Apple followers are nuts. But as it stands in Japan if you want flexibility and freedom without stupid conversion of audio and video files then the iPhone is the best option. Jailbreak it and it's even better! I can get anything I want off my home PC no matter where I am with my phone.

Yakumo

PS:Facebook is shit fullstop

 

Don't get me wrong, I see the attraction

By full HD I meant 1080, which the iPhone does not do. The ccd sensors on the cameras for the Jap phones taken better photos and video than CMOS sensors in the iPhone and lesser jap phones. You're right about getting an HD camera if you want to do things properly though.

I have an iPad, so don't need the iPhone and I like flip phones anyway

 

I want one because of some of the games. I don't think it's possible to run them on other phones.

There is one 3D Gundam game I want & I also would not mind having the Ridge Racer game (even though it's a port of the PSP Game which is also on phone).