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NOTE: NAME PENDING A REVIEW FROM SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY SPEAKS JAPANESE, JUST A PLACEHOLDER FOR NOW BASED ON WHAT GOOGLE TRANSLATE SPITS OUT. Original name is iキャラコール.
note to self: get someone who understands japanese to proofread after


iCharaCall (iキャラコール) was a collaboration between Takara and KLab released in 2004 for Japanese feature phones (note exact model availability here) It offered chara-den, characters that would stand in for the user in a way that emulated a voice call.  
'''''iCharaCall''''' ('''iキャラコール''') was a collaboration between Takara and KLab released in early 2004 for Japanese feature phones, its release coinciding with the release of the FOMA 900i series of phones by Docomo. It was a site which offered chara-den, characters that would stand in for the user in a way that emulated a voice call, with different expressions that could be toggled using the numpad. Optimus Prime and Megatron were both available.
<ref>{{citesocial|quote=|link=https://www.itmedia.co.jp/mobile/articles/0401/23/news065.html|name=後藤祥子|site=ITMedia Mobile|title=「動きの滑らかさを見てください」~タカラ+Kラボの“キャラ電”|year=2004|month=1|day=23|(defunct=)}}</ref>


Optimus Prime and Megatron were both available.
The service had a monthly fee of 315 yen. https://k-tai.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/article/news_toppage/18439.html


==References==


The service had a monthly fee of 315 yen. https://k-tai.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/article/news_toppage/18439.html
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==Sources==
==Sources==

Revision as of 23:18, 30 December 2025

note to self: get someone who understands japanese to proofread after

iCharaCall (iキャラコール) was a collaboration between Takara and KLab released in early 2004 for Japanese feature phones, its release coinciding with the release of the FOMA 900i series of phones by Docomo. It was a site which offered chara-den, characters that would stand in for the user in a way that emulated a voice call, with different expressions that could be toggled using the numpad. Optimus Prime and Megatron were both available. <ref>{{#if: |""—|}}{{#if: https://www.itmedia.co.jp/mobile/articles/0401/23/news065.html |後藤祥子|後藤祥子}}{{#if: ITMedia Mobile |, ITMedia Mobile|}}{{#if: 「動きの滑らかさを見てください」~タカラ+Kラボの“キャラ電” |, "「動きの滑らかさを見てください」~タカラ+Kラボの“キャラ電”"|}}{{#if: 2004 |, 2004{{#if: 1 |/{{#switch:{{#len:1}}|1=01|1}}{{#if: 23|/{{#switch:{{#len:23}}|1=023|23}}|}}}}|}}{{#if: https://www.itmedia.co.jp/mobile/articles/0401/23/news065.html ||}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://www.itmedia.co.jp/mobile/articles/0401/23/news065.html%7C7%7C11}}%7Cweb.archive= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://www.itmedia.co.jp/mobile/articles/0401/23/news065.html%7C8%7C11}}%7Cweb.archive= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://www.itmedia.co.jp/mobile/articles/0401/23/news065.html%7C7%7C10}}%7Carchive.is= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://www.itmedia.co.jp/mobile/articles/0401/23/news065.html%7C8%7C10}}%7Carchive.is= (archive link)|}}{{#if: | (dead link)}}</ref>

The service had a monthly fee of 315 yen. https://k-tai.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/article/news_toppage/18439.html

References

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Sources

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sswinoaZMcg https://www.itmedia.co.jp/mobile/articles/0401/23/news065.html https://k-tai.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/article/news_toppage/16936.html https://web.archive.org/web/20060204050751/http://www.klab.org/press/2004/040206.html (note: link pdf versions for klab articles maybe, since they don't suffer from broken images) https://web.archive.org/web/20050308223445/http://www.klab.org/press/2003/031218.html