Yes. This was the era when Japan's mobile market was several years ahead of Europe and USA. Camera phones were first available there. Another example is Docomo

Yes. This was the era when Japan's mobile market was several years ahead of Europe and USA. Camera phones were first available there. Another example is Docomo i-Mode which was a popular mobile Internet service already in 1999: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-mode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-mode As a curiosity, the emoji character set now found in Unicode was created by Docomo for i-Mode.