As I told you before, T-Mobile is what I had in the States and they told me that it WOULDN'T work well if I brought it to Japan.
I do hear that DoCoMo or..something with a V...Voda, maybe? I forget...one of those two plans should be what you get while here. I've also heard that with..I think DoCoMo, you can bring the phone back to the States and have it work here, but that might be like what T-Mobile is telling you now and there isn't any truth in it. I wouldn't try getting a phone in the States b/c if it doesn't work, you'll have to break contract and it will wind up costing so much more money! Plus, here, a lot of people have phones that come with email and they also text a lot--in hiragana/katakana/etc.
So, like I said before..I would really wait. Ask someone on one of the forums I gave you, though--www.ithinkimlost.com and www.bigdaikon.com They're all in Japan now, so they may know!
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I do hear that DoCoMo or..something with a V...Voda, maybe? I forget...one of those two plans should be what you get while here. I've also heard that with..I think DoCoMo, you can bring the phone back to the States and have it work here, but that might be like what T-Mobile is telling you now and there isn't any truth in it. I wouldn't try getting a phone in the States b/c if it doesn't work, you'll have to break contract and it will wind up costing so much more money! Plus, here, a lot of people have phones that come with email and they also text a lot--in hiragana/katakana/etc.
So, like I said before..I would really wait. Ask someone on one of the forums I gave you, though--www.ithinkimlost.com and www.bigdaikon.com They're all in Japan now, so they may know!