Japanese Texts, can you send and receive?

[kronium]

I have an iPhone friend that might convert to the Evo, but he needs to be able to send and receive Japanese texts. Is this even possible on Sprint? thanks.

 

[Kedar]

I think so...


Check this out:
International Text Messaging
It tells you how to send it. I don't know the rates.

So for him, he would send a text-- "+81xxxxxxxxxx" (I think).

Also, wouldn't e-mail be better in this case? Just a suggestion. Just looking at price.
Lastly, tell him to call sprint and see how they deal with international calling and payments and wahtnot.

 

[kronium]

His main concern is texting in the US using Japanese characters. Thank You

 

[Kedar]

android-apps-by-minghai - Project Hosting on Google Code
Simeji - Cyrket

He could try these two keyboards I found... both have Japanese characters I think.

 

[kronium]

How do you install the first .zip? It doesn't exact to an .apk. Thank you

 

[kyoon19]

As far as I know, Sprint does not support unicode. Your text message will look like an alien language. This is why I wish I had GSM sometimes. NONE of my Asian friends use Sprint b/c of this. Most of them use Tmobile or At&t.