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 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 26th, 2008
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Wow, this must be a great innovation. DoCoMo, Sharp, and Nissan agree to collaborate on creating new thing. They are making a cellphone that also can be acted as car key. The press release said:
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., NTT DOCOMO, INC. and Sharp Corporation announced today that they have jointly developed a mobile phone capable [...]
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 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 8th, 2008
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The 4th largest Japan mobile operator, Willcom, unveiled phone powered with Windows Mobile 6.1 that will be available in market since September 11. Seeking to the specification, phone seems to be intended as business phone. There are several pre-loaded productivity applications included.
The rough specs of this Sharp-made phone are as follows:
Marvell PXA270 520 MHz processor
3 [...]
September 5th, 2008
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KDDI is getting higher and higher. Sometimes they even appeared as such an odd to all of us. After showing us their latest concept cellphones, now they finally come up with the real one; the KDDI W64SA!
KDDI W64SA is actually just a Kyocera’s made au-branded cellphone. However, it does comes up with something cool [...]
September 3rd, 2008
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If KDDI will give its users a projector on their concept cellphone then Willcom also has a unique idea too in this field. However, it seems that they’re not adding their cellphone with such projector, laser printer or even tissue-dispenser, but a weird form-factor that mimic the popular Teddy Bear doll.
Based on its design, this [...]
