This may have been true in the 90s/early 00s, but I'm not sure if it is anymore. During a trip to Tokyo a few years back, I got to see some of the "advanced" p

This may have been true in the 90s/early 00s, but I'm not sure if it is anymore. During a trip to Tokyo a few years back, I got to see some of the "advanced" phones up close: big, clunky, and plastic. The majority of phones are flip, with very few smart phone users. There is a big difference in what the Japanese want out of phones for sure though. While we're fixated on Internet access and applications to pass the time, the biggest seller of phones in Japan is the ability to watch TV through 1seg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-seg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-seg Wikipedia has another really interesting article on cell phone culture in Japan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_mobile_phone_culture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_mobile_phone_culture