This is really fascinating. I wonder how much was informed by i-mode. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-mode https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-mode It was an

This is really fascinating. I wonder how much was informed by i-mode. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-mode https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-mode It was an alternative to the other content delivery offerings at the time, like WAP. Japanese handset manufacturers created devices that catered to the needs of that format. Japan is an interesting case study as always because they were always in tight coordination with software and hardware before it was widely popular.