November 5th, 2008
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You know the advance of Japan mobile technology. One of its feature is 1seg, the TV digital streaming. This one particular thing is very popular in Japan. So, when iPhone 3G was being launched there, there is slight doubt whether iPhone, which has no 1seg option, can compete with other sophisticated phone. After being surveyed [...]
November 3rd, 2008
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It is said that iPhone 3G, the latest from Apple, is not that appealing to Japan society. Only 9% are interested among people surveyed. Yet, the 9% people have raised Softbank’s profit this Q3. Softbank, the third largest mobile manufacturer which has exclusive contract for iPhone distribution, reported to have 1.9% profit rose during July [...]
October 19th, 2008
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Not only Adobe Flash Lite that detects the potential of mobile market (for its business). Its competitor, Silverlight, created by software giant, Microsoft, will try its luck in this area too. For this time, Silverlight is aimed to be provided for iPhone and T-Mobile G1. Yeah, American technology for American phones.
Mobilewhack noted:
Microsoft is reportedly very [...]
October 15th, 2008
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A fans of retro musical instrument, like stylophone? Stylophone, especially Dubreq stylophone, is ‘the original pocket electronic organ’, used by several 70s musician, like David Bowie, Brett Domino, Erasure, Hexstatic, Krafwerk, Marilyn Manson, Orbital, Pulp, The Raconteurs and They Might Be Giants. If you want to have nostalgic moment with stylophone in this 21st century, [...]
October 9th, 2008
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Finally, Japan’s third largest mobile operator that has exclusive deal for iPhone 3G, Softbank Mobile, win the first corporate contract with BearingPoint, USA based management and technology consultancy. The deal reveals that Softbank will provide 1000 handsets for company’s analysts and workers around the country. BearingPoint said adopting the iPhone with the aim of improving [...]
September 28th, 2008
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We obtained information from Taiwan News, saying that Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom-country’s largest operator-is about to sell both, iPhone and Android-based Gphone-made by HTC (similar to T-Mobile G1). Yet, I am still confuse about the story itself since there is no official announcement in Chunghwa site. Is there anyone who can confirm this?
Chunghwa Telecom will import [...]
September 22nd, 2008
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Currently, Japanese iPhone users can purchase and download Japanese 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch from the App Store for $19.99. Ganbatte!
Designed as a Japanese language aid for those learning Japanese and those who need to speak it, Japanese features more than 127,000 entries. It works offline, and lets you browse through the vocabulary or [...]
September 18th, 2008
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Well, during these last 2 months, there are 200,000 units of iPhone 3G sold in Japan only, according to MM Research Institute. Yet, since Softbank Mobile, the exclusive operator, has about 19.5 million subscribers, it only count 1% for total subscribers! One good reason is that iPhone 3G has a high starting price. US$ 321 [...]
September 16th, 2008
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A moment after patching to iPhone 2.1 software upgrade, several users has been asked by Computer World about the quality of their 3G’s reception. Although the results quite vary, I can conclude that most of them agreed no significant changes on fixing iPhone 3G connection problem.
Yet, the software update brings boost into regular signal reception. [...]
September 16th, 2008
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If you came late to the airport’s check-in counter, probably you can’t get your ideal seat preference. You might get the aisle one, for instance, while you prefer to sit down near the window. But if you are a Qantas passenger, you can select your seat directly from your phone!
Start from early 2009, Qantas is [...]
