So I signed up for DoCoMo today and got an N503i i-Appli phone. What I didn't realize is that NTT (i−Mode) in their infinite wisdom, decided that e−mail can only be 500 bytes long. In Japanese that translates into 250 characters since Japanese generally takes 2 bytes per character. That's probably fine for e−mail between phones but it's not fine for other things.

For example it's not fine for updating my webpage. The limits on entering text in forms on webpages are also 500 bytes. Actually it's 500 bytes per text field so maybe I can make a new submition form using multiple text fields (I wonder how many text fields I can have total)