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17. September 2003

KEITAI-L - mailing list on the changing role of mobile phones
Weblog (wiki) | Wireless and Mobile (wiki) - urs @ 21:44:36

[via Mika Tuupola] KEITAI-L [1] is a mailinglist ment for the discussion of current and future web and JAVA(tm) enabled mobile phones with a bias towards the Japanese market. Discussions on technical and marketing issues are welcome.

While having understood the the goal of that list I was still wondering on the meaning of "keitai", since not knowing much about Japanese. So what Google revealed at second place in the result set behind KEITAI-L, was the Keitai Log [2]

an occasional Web diary by a group of Tokyo college students who are researching the changing role of cell phones - keitai - in Japanese society.

Left to mention that one of the writers of the Japanese Media Review is Joi Itos younger sister Mizuko Ito [3]. Small world ;-)

[1] http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/
[2] http://www.ojr.org/japan/wireless/1043770157.php
[3] http://www.ojr.org/japan/writers/archive.php?personID=333

Update (03.08.2004)
[4] http://joi.ito.com/archives/2004/08/03/mimi_on_keitai_culture.html

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Comment by Roger @ 2003-09-18 13:35:34:

KEITAI is a two kanji word (ON-reading)
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It's formed by these two kanjis:

1) KEI, tazusa(eru), tazusa(waru) = portable; carry (in hand); armed with; bring along

2) TAI, obi(ru), obi = sash, belt, obi, zone

which gives:
KEITAI = (1) carrying something; (2) mobile telephone (abbr); (P)

See Keitai

Comment by KAYWA AG @ 2003-09-18 13:54:10:

携帯: KEITAI and other japanese terms
Urs tried to find out the original meaning of the word "KEITAI" / 携帯【けいたい】携帯: KEITAI = (1) carrying something; (2) mobile telephone (abbr); (P) which uses the above kanji ...

Comment by Bitflux Blog :: Japanese Dictionaries on the Web @ 2003-09-18 13:58:28:
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Comment by urs @ 2003-09-18 14:16:01:
Roger-san, thanx for the derivation ;-)
Comment by Roger @ 2003-09-18 14:21:13:
my pleasure;)
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