Someone should collect all the completely idiotic quotes by pundits saying that the iPhone is old-hat in Japan. Quite the opposite. The market is salivating and sick to death of the endless progression of features at the expense of usability.<p>There are infinite features, and they are all implemented terribly. After v1.0, they just move on to working on this season's new useless feature, rather than actually making the phones work properly.<p>As a concrete example, Japan has high-speed data on most phones now. But they almost all use built-in browsers that choke to death on a modest web page, sometimes nearly locking up the phone.<p>A month ago I went in a store to look for a phone that was actually viable for browsing, and the staff told me forget it, just wait for the iPhone. This was the staff whose job it is to stand in the phone area and drive phone sales!