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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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 Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:42 pm Post subject: How do you send an email to Korean Cellphone? |
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How do you send an email to a korean cell phone? Specifically SK Telecom.
Text messages have a text limit, plus it takes forever to type it out using the phone keypad. |
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Ut videam
Joined: 07 Dec 2007
Location: Pocheon-si, Gyeonggi-do
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| Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 7:50 am Post subject: |
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| bump - I'd like to know this too. |
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DCJames
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 6:20 pm Post subject: Re: How do you send an email to Korean Cellphone? |
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| pkang0202 wrote: |
How do you send an email to a korean cell phone? Specifically SK Telecom.
Text messages have a text limit, plus it takes forever to type it out using the phone keypad. |
You need to have a 3G phone to do it. I just bought a new 3G phone with SK service and it's one of the services offered FREE on the phone.
Some 2G phones will do it also. |
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Ut videam
Joined: 07 Dec 2007
Location: Pocheon-si, Gyeonggi-do
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| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 7:38 pm Post subject: Re: How do you send an email to Korean Cellphone? |
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| DCJames wrote: |
| pkang0202 wrote: |
How do you send an email to a korean cell phone? Specifically SK Telecom.
Text messages have a text limit, plus it takes forever to type it out using the phone keypad. |
You need to have a 3G phone to do it. I just bought a new 3G phone with SK service and it's one of the services offered FREE on the phone.
Some 2G phones will do it also. |
Details! Give us details!
I have a 3G phone with SK, but I don't know anything about the e-mail service. I'm pretty sure I can send e-mail through the "Color Mail" service (same thing I use to send MMS messages), but I have no idea what my phone's e-mail address is.
Also, any English resources on SK services would be great. Thanks! |
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DCJames
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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I also get to check my email from my cell phone for FREE.
Your cellphone doesn't have an email address. I looked under the menu for "Messages" and there was an option for email. It let me configure my hotmail account so I can check and reply to email with 3 taps of a button.
It's a great little service. I don't have to go to PC Rooms just to check my email.
Also. my phone lets me videoconference with anyone with the same type 3G phones I have.
It's quite impressive. |
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Ut videam
Joined: 07 Dec 2007
Location: Pocheon-si, Gyeonggi-do
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| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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| DCJames wrote: |
I also get to check my email from my cell phone for FREE.
Your cellphone doesn't have an email address. I looked under the menu for "Messages" and there was an option for email. It let me configure my hotmail account so I can check and reply to email with 3 taps of a button.
It's a great little service. I don't have to go to PC Rooms just to check my email.
Also. my phone lets me videoconference with anyone with the same type 3G phones I have.
It's quite impressive. |
All sounds good, but I'm having trouble getting it to work. When I choose the E-mail option, it asks me for my NATE id and password, which I don't have. Do I need to go to the website and set one up? Did you have to do this? |
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cangel
Joined: 19 Jun 2003
Location: Jeonju, S. Korea
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| Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 12:15 am Post subject: |
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| When I moved to Korea over a year ago, from Japan, I was told about Korea "superior" cellular technology. Seems to pretty much be a joke when compared to Japan. I was using Japan's 3G network over 3 years ago, closer to 4. America pretty much sucks @ss with cell technology. Korea has a ways to go to reach Japan's level of cellular technology. |
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Donghae
Joined: 24 Dec 2003
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
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| Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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| cangel wrote: |
| When I moved to Korea over a year ago, from Japan, I was told about Korea "superior" cellular technology. Seems to pretty much be a joke when compared to Japan. I was using Japan's 3G network over 3 years ago, closer to 4. America pretty much sucks @ss with cell technology. Korea has a ways to go to reach Japan's level of cellular technology. |
I both agree and disagree. There are aspects of Japan's cellphone system which you'd really miss if you'd got used to them and then moved to Korea. The ease of sending e-mail is one of them. Japan's cellphone texting is based on e-mail and it's easy and cheap.
However, with cheaper SMS texting where you just use the phone number and no need for an e-mail address, Japan is actually behind the rest of the world. Because in Japan, this ONLY works between users on the same network. If your best friend has docomo and you have softbank, then you have to e-mail each other even simple messages. Yes, that's easy, but it costs more than an SMS would.
Another thing I don't miss from Japan is the truly crap reception coverage of some of their cellphone networks. No coverage in the subway and sometimes not even in a short 50m tunnel! |
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DCJames
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Donghae wrote: |
| cangel wrote: |
| When I moved to Korea over a year ago, from Japan, I was told about Korea "superior" cellular technology. Seems to pretty much be a joke when compared to Japan. I was using Japan's 3G network over 3 years ago, closer to 4. America pretty much sucks @ss with cell technology. Korea has a ways to go to reach Japan's level of cellular technology. |
I both agree and disagree. There are aspects of Japan's cellphone system which you'd really miss if you'd got used to them and then moved to Korea. The ease of sending e-mail is one of them. Japan's cellphone texting is based on e-mail and it's easy and cheap.
However, with cheaper SMS texting where you just use the phone number and no need for an e-mail address, Japan is actually behind the rest of the world. Because in Japan, this ONLY works between users on the same network. If your best friend has docomo and you have softbank, then you have to e-mail each other even simple messages. Yes, that's easy, but it costs more than an SMS would.
Another thing I don't miss from Japan is the truly crap reception coverage of some of their cellphone networks. No coverage in the subway and sometimes not even in a short 50m tunnel! |
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cangel
Joined: 19 Jun 2003
Location: Jeonju, S. Korea
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| Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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Dagger? What does that mean? Anyway...
How much does a text cost between various carriers in Korea? What, W10-whatever?
How much does a small email cost between various carriers in Japan. What, Y3.
Neither of these rates are for large texts e.g. pics and/or videos attached. That being said, seems Japan is still cheap when you send small texts/emails between 2 different carriers.
However, I will cede the point that Japan's networks are not as complete as Koreas. There are some major reception shadows in the countryside.
One additional issue is data transfer rates over networks which Japan wins hands down.
Dagger? |
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Donghae
Joined: 24 Dec 2003
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
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| Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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| cangel wrote: |
However, I will cede the point that Japan's networks are not as complete as Koreas. There are some major reception shadows in the countryside.
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There are indeed, although, to be fair, this is true in a lot of countries. However, I was particularly thinking of the dreadful reception in Japan in places where you'd EXPECT it to be ok. I too had a 3G phone in Japan about 3 years ago. I remember once being in a bar showing it off to a few mates, who offered to send me some pictures to my phone.....except they couldn't cos the damn phone was out of range...on the 1st floor of a fairly old wooden building! This was not an infrequent occurence either, and I got mightily sick of missing calls just because I was in a basement or had left my phone too far from the window.
I did sometimes get very good reception, but that was when I used the phone outside of Japan 
I'd stick with my original point that there are aspects of cell phones in both K and J, where one's better than other, vice-versa or depends on your personal preference. Interestingly, one area where I think Japan does do much better than Korea is in the foreigner-friendliness of its cellphone companies. Hasn't always been the case, but nowadays English (or even Korean, Chinese or Portuguese) info is fairly easy to get, as is the actual phone in the first place.
Anyway, sorry, kinda strayed off the original topic here. |
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Cheonmunka
Joined: 04 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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Hanmail has this service.
When you type an email you've got an option to send to cellphone as well and I think it goes into their phone as a text message. |
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DCJames
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Cheonmunka wrote: |
Hanmail has this service.
When you type an email you've got an option to send to cellphone as well and I think it goes into their phone as a text message. |
the Korean version of Yahoo does the same... |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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I found out you can send text messages via NateON as long as the recipient has their cell number tied to their nateON ID.
In the US, I remember it was as simple as typing
[email protected] in the email address and it would automatically text you the email that someone sent.
Also, you can go to almost any carrier's website and sent text via their website. |
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