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 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 7th, 2008
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Hello, we are back again with weekly roundup for period 1 - 7 September 2008. After missing 2 cycles , we are trying to give you the roundup of what happen in gadget world during the week. Anyway, we would like to say happy fasting for everyone who celebrate it in this holy month of [...]
September 4th, 2008
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Tired of sophisticated yet complicated phone? Well, some people probably doesn’t need all features offered by a superb phone, like Internet, GPS, FM Transmitter, Bluetooth, even camera. Maybe they only need basic camera feature, with enhance technology in clear voice.
Pantech, Korean third largest manufacturer, behind Samsung and LG, try to help by giving solution. They [...]
September 1st, 2008
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It is so amazing to have a line up of cellphone that has some extra features that no other vendor own it yet. KDDI, they are what I mean here. This time, Serkan Toto from CG has reported and took some pictures on KDDI’s latest cellphone concept. Pretty cool. There is a kind of [...]
August 19th, 2008
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Softbank, Japan’s third biggest carrier after NTT DoCoMo and KDDI, has announced today that it would sell mobile phones from Casio Computer Co. Just like this tough Boulder I guess.
For Softbank, this deal may help them to boost users subscription. Though they’ve already enjoyed a nice increasing in term of subscribers from the launch of [...]
August 14th, 2008
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Japan’s largest mobile operator, NTT DoCoMo, is about its latest series created by Panasonic and NEC. The launching date is set on August 15 (tomorrow). Both products are going to use numerical code 706ie. The difference is in initial alphabet. Panasonic is coded with P, while NEC with N.
Panasonic P706ie specification are as follows:
3G connectivity
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August 9th, 2008
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This report from Telecommunications Carriers Association (TCA), which I got via TechOn perhaps is a strong evidence that iShare’s survey on the beginning of June this year was totally a nonsense. Here is the iShare’s survey conclusion:
Survey from iShare said that 91.0% Japanese mobile phone users are not planning to purchase Apple Inc’s 3G iPhone.
Yeah, [...]
