Filed under: en/Mobile
When I visited Indonesia this month I was close to achieving mobile connectivity that is equivalent to the one I am having in Japan. In Japan almost all cellular phones provide excellent email access. I started with getting Nokia 3100 while in Indonesia and managed to succesfully set its GPRS after numerous calls to operators and friends there. I was thinking of using web-based mail but there were two problems: the GPRS cost was too expensive and Nokia 3100 could not display Japanese websites I was using to get my web-based mail. Last year I got a Japanese Sony Ericsson V802SE (known outside Japan as V800) but this phone is locked to Japan in many aspects so it was hard to make this phone works, and moreover this phone is very buggy, and for some reason I am not aware of it could not get any signal in Indonesia (I worked flawlessly in Malaysia and Singapore though). I also got Motorola A1000, which does not support Japanese natively, and I could access only Unicode-coded Japanese web sites, not the more native Shift-JIS or EUC. I managed to used this A1000 with Telkomsel’s HALO card to use GPRS and ran Agile Messenger. 
This month I got Samsung 804SS (known outside Japan as Samsung Z540) and after visit to Indosat service center I suceeded in using Matrix card for GPRS access for the first time. I could access native Japanese websites for the first time too (since 802SE failed to work in Indonesia last year) . The last remaining problem was MMS, which with I was supposed to be able to access my mails with cellular phone with Indosat’s I-Memova service. But I did not succeed in getting MMS to work while I was in Indonesia, even after sending activation SMS. After arriving back in Japan, however, after tweaking I succeeded in setting the Samsung 804SS to use I-Memova.
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Now I am supposed to be able to get and send emails on cellular phone while in Indonesia.
