Phone factor trends

I:ve noticed that in Japan, the phone trend today seems to be headed toward flip phones. Large ones. Almost everyone is using phones that look like overgrown Motorola Razrs, but I can tell they are much higher tech than our American Razrs. Their screen is much higher resolution. You can see partial web pages on their phones, and the screen can be filled to show like 500 characters at once.

In Korea, the current trend seems to be toward slider phones, where the face of the phone slides upward and it shows the keypad below. Their phones are just as high tech in terms of functionality.