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- Thread starter MikeM
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- 8 Jul 2004
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Its a friggin plauge of EVIL the ketai e-mail is!mikecash said:
SajberJohan
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- 21 Oct 2004
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Is this "ketai e-mail" for free like regular e-mail or is it like sending SMS ?
- 8 Jul 2004
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Short Message Service. Used in Europe and Australia and costs about the equivalent of 15 - 20yen per message.
Basically like Vodafones skymail.
Basically like Vodafones skymail.
- 8 Jul 2004
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Ouch, no wonder my cousin was working two jobs.
One jobs pay went exclusively to her phone bill.
One jobs pay went exclusively to her phone bill.
- 15 Mar 2002
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I hear guys at work talking about how reasonable their keitai bill is....only 30 or 40 thousand yen per month.
I don't use Skymail because I have found the delivery to be unreliable. Sometimes the stuff doesn't get where it's going for several hours. Sometimes the next day.
I don't use Skymail because I have found the delivery to be unreliable. Sometimes the stuff doesn't get where it's going for several hours. Sometimes the next day.
- 8 Jul 2004
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I have the same problem with receiving docomo mailmikecash said:
SajberJohan
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- 21 Oct 2004
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So thats like what 200$ just for sending mail every month!?! O_O
- 15 Mar 2002
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More like $300-$400, including the incessant yakking that is so common in Japan.
These days it is hard to spot a person who doesn't have a keitai pressed to the ear or their eyes glued to a keitai screen.....regardless of time. location. or situation.
These days it is hard to spot a person who doesn't have a keitai pressed to the ear or their eyes glued to a keitai screen.....regardless of time. location. or situation.
cicatriz esp
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- 21 Aug 2004
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Every Japanese person i've known in real life had never seen a computer IM program before I showed them one. They in turn had to teach me how to send text messages via cell phone, which i still can't seem to get down. I can read them just find, sending is another story.
As for the people i've only met via the web, MSN seems to be the one to go with.
As for the people i've only met via the web, MSN seems to be the one to go with.
BamaFan2989
c'est moi.
- 19 Oct 2004
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Is there a special way to see these people in chats on Yahoo and MSN? I know there was somewhere where someone said that they get on like midnight in the states. Just wondering....
MeAndroo
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- 29 Jul 2004
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Thank god for the AU student discounts. I wouldn't get to 100 a day, but I'd hit 50 on occasion, and we sent a ton of pictures, which you have to use email for, as opposed to the cheaper AU->AU c-mail. I archived most of the funnier mails, and bust out my old keitai once in awhile just to reminisce. Makes me realize how much Japanese I've forgotten. 
I guess having the 50 minute/month talking plan isn't conducive to major conversations. At least they round to the second.
I guess having the 50 minute/month talking plan isn't conducive to major conversations. At least they round to the second.
TwistedMac
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- 4 Mar 2004
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SMS'ing (or "texting" as they say in britland) is huge in sweden.. I do it, but I try to keep away from teh retarded messages...
with 100msgs /day you've GOT to have a large load of retarded messages!
(with retarded msgs I'm talking about the "Hi! what are you doing?" ones... you wanna know what I'm doing? CALL ME AND ASK! SMS-chatting is just too d*mn expensive.)
for some reason I manage to hit 33 messages on about 1/2 of my bills (I'm billed once every month)... I'm not counting or anything.. pretty weird... But at one point I hit 150 msgs in a month and i was appauled...
with 100msgs /day you've GOT to have a large load of retarded messages!
(with retarded msgs I'm talking about the "Hi! what are you doing?" ones... you wanna know what I'm doing? CALL ME AND ASK! SMS-chatting is just too d*mn expensive.)
for some reason I manage to hit 33 messages on about 1/2 of my bills (I'm billed once every month)... I'm not counting or anything.. pretty weird... But at one point I hit 150 msgs in a month and i was appauled...
BamaFan2989
c'est moi.
- 19 Oct 2004
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what is keitai?
TwistedMac
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- 4 Mar 2004
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mobile phone
Glenn
一切皆苦
- 8 Jan 2004
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Here ya go. Usually it's an abbreviation for 携帯電話（けいたいでんわ）, which means "mobile phone," and I believe it's usually written ケータイ in such situations.
Rough translation: "common name for mobile phone. [made normal by the speech of young people in the latter half of the 1990s]"
Rough translation: "common name for mobile phone. [made normal by the speech of young people in the latter half of the 1990s]"
blu_pengwin
pop rocks and soda
- 4 Oct 2004
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LoL wow u guys use alot
I use mebe ten a week...then again I live in the US :?
I use mebe ten a week...then again I live in the US :?
