Looking for phone that can send/receive chinese/japanese character text messages.

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XxMaThIaSxX

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Hello,

Im pretty new here. I just registered and figure to post here and give this a shot.

I have an Sony Ericsson T616 phone and using Cingular which pretty much meets my requirements.

That is until now. I live in the U.S.

I have a relative who is living in china now and I send text messages all the time to cut down on costs. Sometimes, the messages get through sometimes they dont. Im guessing its because of the messages he sends me is in chinese characters.

The text message I get sometimes is:
The original message had characters unsupported by your service provider.

The questions I have are:

1) Can anyone point me to a phone that can accept/write in chinese characters?

2) Can anyone point me to a carrier that can accept chinese characters?

3) It would be a big plus if I could also accept japanese character text messages as well.

4) And oh, if anyone can help solve the question, why I can't accept "unsupported characters" that would be great.

Thanks in advance,

- Ulysses
 
I have the same trouble receiving Chinese characters from a Chinese friend using a Motorola V3r RAZR with T-mobile. I draft and receive SMS messages using a Bluetooth-connected PDA Palm T5 (with native Chinese CJKOS support installed) using an SMS mini-application on the T5 to create and display the SMS messages and using the Moto just as a relay device so the T5 COULD display the replied Chinese message but T-Mobile appears to mess with the characters on the way in and out of the USA, hence this unhelpful replacement message.
Also, if I send Chinese characters from my Palm T5 they are unhappily stripped out on the way to my Chinese friend.
Anyone out there know how to get Chinese characters in or out of the USA-based T-mobile carrier?
 
I don't think it really matter which phone to use for SMS as long as it has the Chinses language pack installed in it. The problem is that the network in the US will allow out-going Chinese SMS but won't allow in-coming ones.

I used my N80 (purchased in HK) to send SMS in Chinese and my friend in China received it without any problem (I am on Cingular). But then the SMS she sent to me came through as "The original message had characters unsupported by your service provider" I guess the network do not reconize the message therefore blocking it as if it was a virus. That might just be a good thing since a lot of phones now adays can be infected by viruses just like PCs do.
 
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