Also, there are many different handsets, and you cannot really get a full feeling of what users experience, unless you use a real imode handset. Commercial imode developers in Japan in addition to real imode handsets do use simulators, however these are to our knowledge not for general sale. Almost all users of imode are Japanese, therefore you need to write your content in Japanese language using Japanese characters. On a Japanese enabled web browser these special characters will shot up as a question mark. Most imode users also perform m-commerce transactions.
Images are in gif-format, and some handsets can display animated gif's.
No you cannot. But you can email the URL of a gif image, which when clicked by the recipient of the email, will display the image on the handset, and the image can be downloaded into the handset. JAVA enabled handsets were due to be introduced for imode from late autumn 2000, however the introduction has been delayed until early 2001. Users will be able to download JAVA applets into the handsets for games, agent type services and other applications. So you can start to develop JAVA applications for imode.