October 9th, 2008
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NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s largest mobile operator, unveils its new phones, created by Sony Ericsson. Coded as SO-01A (or SO907i), the phone is described as follows (seems like using Google Translator or something to translate the original text from Japanese, not really good though):
Design a book of articles relating to goods, such as music playback capability [...]
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 [...]
October 5th, 2008
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A latest survey, conducted by goo Research and questioned to 1056 respondents, reveals that 45.2% of sample said that they have GPS enabled phones. Most of mobile phone’s users (22.8%) use it about one to three days a month, while 10.9% use it one to three days a week. Still there are about 35% consumers [...]
October 5th, 2008
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Singapore and Malaysia, two countries in South East Asia region, were one country back in the 1950s. As they have separated, the communication today is getting more expensive, thanks to high roaming charges for mobile phone call. To encourage more communication between citizens of these two countries, Singapore and Malaysia governments agree on lowering roaming [...]
October 3rd, 2008
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A really good news for Japan’s gadget otaku. The country’s largest operator, NTT DoCoMo, is planning to sell Google’s Android platform phone next year. DoCoMo is one member of Open Handset Alliance (OHA), organization that developed the Android OS, based from Linux. Probably the model that will be sold is based on HTC’s T-Mobile G1.
Beside [...]
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 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 12th, 2008
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Japan second largest mobile operator, KDDI, has made agreement to bring HTC’s smartphones in Japan. Of course, since KDDI is well known as CDMA operator, that must be a CDMA handsets to be created by this Taiwan mobile creator! I got information that HTC’s CDMA phone has been launched for US market, but probably this [...]
September 11th, 2008
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On September 5, Sharp is testing China market (again) by announcing its brand new baby, Sharp SH8010c. This is the second series to be unveiled in China from the largest Japanese phone manufacturer. The first was on June 2008. The SH8010c has similar form factor to those which has been in Japan market. It has [...]
September 6th, 2008
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Survey from TNS has picked up Nokia as the best mobile phone brand in the Asia Pacific region. After Nokia, they also put Samsung and Sony Ericsson as the second and third in mobile phone brand.
The survey itself, ‘Asia Pacific’s Top 1000 Brands‘ survey for 2008, has accepted 3,600 people. Those participants, whose conducted [...]
i meant 3G
should be cheaper though…
would they provide for palmOS gadget?