March 26th, 2008
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Woooow, that’s what I call Super …..
So what makes Japan’s largest operator call it ‘Super’? Fellows, read this via Japan Corp:
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that it has recorded a downlink transmission rate of 250 Mbps over a high-speed wireless network in an outdoor test of an experimental Super 3G system for mobile communications.
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March 13th, 2008
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Sharp, a company who makes the brilliant Aquos, is still leading in Japan’s mobile phone market with their GX and TM series. Followed by Panasonic, Fujitsu, Toshiba, and NEC. Despite of some negative analysis from economist about Japanese mobile phone market, Sharp took about 25.1% market share.
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March 10th, 2008
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The Legendary Walkman Maker, Sony, had announced to stop making mobile phones for NTT DoCoMo. Anyway, this plan will be active after this summer.
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March 10th, 2008
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Do you know who is the best-selling car maker in USA and the world nowadays? Toyota and Honda. Exactly! Now, what about cell phone? Is it japanese company again? Sorry, not exactly! The Economist had made a nice analysis on this.
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March 4th, 2008
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Feel a bit lonely just talking on the phone? A Japanese company is offering a cellphone that turns into a robot buddy ready to chat.
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February 8th, 2008
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Japan third largest mobile operator, Softbank, reported that their Q3 2007 profit roses 9.1%. This is a bless as DoCoMo and KDDI profit slides down. Softbank has used a cut-price strategy since buying Vodafone Group Japan mobile unit in 2006 to lure users from bigger rivals NTT DoCoMo Inc and KDDI Corp. In the [...]
February 5th, 2008
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Following the last DoCoMo report, NTT, parent company of DoCoMo, announced that their profit drops by 22%, period April to December 2007. “As our regional communications businesses will likely suffer for a while, NTT DoCoMo, which is contributing more than 70% of operating profits is really important to us,” said Satoshi Miura, Nippon Telegraph’s president [...]
January 29th, 2008
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Yes, rest of the world probably the step child of Sony Ericsson Japan product. Not that they don’t care, but the drooling product always be unveiled in Japan only. Until now, there are only 2 kinds that being launched from Japan’s to non Japan market. They are S700 and W900, and run on GSM network [...]
January 26th, 2008
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Well, since there is deadlock in “bringing iPhone to Japan” conversation, DoCoMo turns their shot to Google’s open handset, Android. As DoCoMo is one of founding member of Open Handset Alliance, the talk is probably resulting much easier.
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January 18th, 2008
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Due to great response from customer, Japan’s third largest operator, Softbank, is going to enable free-of-charge call service, especially for IP phone subscribers. Started in Hokkaido, Niigata and Ehime, the company will enlarge the area to cover across Japan. This service known as White Call, is being introduced for the first time in Japan.
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