December 5th, 2008
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Japan’s second largest operator, KDDI, finally announced that the company will use LTE (Long Term Evolution) as its 3.9G (not yet 4G) mobile communication. The vendor for network equipment is Hitachi Ltd.
KDDI said it decided to employ LTE in consideration of its “cost and versatility,” “future expandability,” and “international trends.” Hitachi will develop LTE products [...]
November 2nd, 2008
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NBC Universal has launched of its new mobile portal in Japan, in connection with the theatrical run of the major blockbuster movie ‘Wanted’ starring Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman.
Customers of NTT Docomo, KDDI-au and SoftBank Mobile will be able to download a variety of mobile content, including themes, tones, decoration emails, made-for mobile [...]
October 30th, 2008
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Now we have other function of a phone, helping someone knowing which style is most suitable for the user. An application, developed for Japanese second largest operator KDDI au, can help you decide the best suites or haircut to be applied. Named as EZ My Styling, this application is really useful, especially for those fashion [...]
October 28th, 2008
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Another phone for KDDI’s CDMA connectivity. Japan’s largest mobile manufacturer, Sharp, is adding new line up for its CDMA network. Christened as W64SH under the brand Aquos (a well known Sharp’s LCD TV), this phone hopefully will get hype among young professionals. As it has Aquos branding, the LCD screen quality is definitely superb. The [...]
October 28th, 2008
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Casio Japan unveils its latest line up. The new Exilim W63CA is superbly featured with 8.1 megapixels camera. The phone will run under KDDI au, and of course only run for CDMA network. Beside camera, this sliding phone will have large 3.1 inch screen. Good enough for your won convenience.
Here are the list of the [...]
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 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 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 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, [...]
July 18th, 2008
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A good businessman always recognize the opportunity. So are Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ and KDDI-2nd largest operator in Japan. They proudly announce the joint venture (fifty-fifty) that creates Jibun Bank. What’s so special about this bank?
Jibun Bank offers as follows:
Banking service online via mobile phone
Easy fund transfer using mobile
Can open accounts online
Interested? It is somewhat [...]