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Japan Phone Shipments Plummet

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2008-10-09 23:52:15 by Editor in Ubergizmo
...Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA), the total volume of cell phone shipments in Japan has been reduced by as much as 47.9% year-on-year (YoY) to 2,084,000 units as of August this year. JEITA also mentioned that the summer selling season was rather lacklustre, since most handsets released over the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Graffiti Japan

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2008-10-10 07:37:17 by HASH0x8bbe020 in Cool Hunting
...Japan For anyone that has visited Tokyo, it's no secret that Japanese graffiti artists, while of course influenced by the New York scene, have created a beast all of their own with the popular influences of calligraphy, kanji, and anime and magna characters. You may have come across KAMI and SUSU, who have traveled the world in group and solo...
 
 
 
 
 
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Japan to start overseas cell phone technology push

2008-09-08 23:08:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...Japan will start an aggressive push to market abroad its mobile technology, especially the nation's popular "wallet phone," a government official said Tuesday Although Japan boasts some of the most sophisticated cell phones in the world, delivering high-speed Internet connections, digital TV broadcasts and video downloads, the nation has...
 
 
 
 
 
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30 million Symbian smartphone shipments in Japan up until the end of November 2007

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2008-01-17 10:39:44 by dusanb in IntoMobile
...Japan up until the end of November 2007 According to the companys numbers, Symbian OS marketshare of the NTT DoCoMo FOMA market grew in one year from 50% to 65% at the end of H1 2007. To date, a total of 69 mobile phone models based on Symbian OS have launched in Japan by six Symbian customers: Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, Nokia, Motorola, Sharp and...
 
 
 
 
 
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What's Not Hot in Japan? Try iPhone

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2008-09-15 17:30:26 by Editor in VoIP & Gadgets Blog
...Japan Apple 's partnership with Japan's third-largest mobile operator, Softbank Corp ., to sell the iPhone 3G certainly created a buzz. Like elsewhere, Japanese consumers lined up at stores in advance of the phone's release on July 11, and many locations sold out almost immediately But now analysts estimate that demand in Japan has fallen...
 
 
 
 
 
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Think Tank: Greying Japan On Its Way To Robot Majority

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2008-04-10 11:54:11 by Joel Johnson in Boing Boing Gadgets
...Japan's intricately formalized rules of social decorum: perhaps the culture has reacted explosively to the lack of personal space by building up psychological breathing room in every transaction, constructing as many obstacles as possible between two human beings actually interacting I suspect this same theory goes a long way towards...
 
 
 
 
 
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Apple secures 'iPhone' trademark in Japan - 3G iPhone coming to Japan?

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2008-04-22 19:45:36 by Will Park in IntoMobile
...Japanese company Aiphone . The two companies have apparently come to terms with the use of the iPhone trademark in Japan, allowing both Apple and Aiphone to use the trademark. Aiphone has reportedly been talking to Apple since last summer over the iPhone trademark While Aiphone isn't exactly the same as iPhone, both words are apparently...
 
 
 
 
 
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Apple looking to launch 3G iPhone in Korea and Japan

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2008-05-21 20:39:20 by Will Park in IntoMobile
...Japanese wireless markets. Previous reports indicated that Japan would not be getting the iPhone anytime soon, seeing as how the nation's 3G network did not mesh well with the current iPhone. But, Apple is reportedly looking to bring their next-generation iPhone to both Korea and Japan in a joint-launch on Korea Free Telecom (KTF) and NTT...
 
 
 
 
 
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SoftBank brings iPhone to Japan

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2008-06-04 10:34:29 by dusanb in IntoMobile
...Japan has been announced - it's SoftBank. The short release states SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone to Japan later this year Engadget notes that it's interesting to see whether they'll get a 3G iPhone. SoftBank is a W-CDMA (UMTS 3G), not GSM/EDGE carrier, a fact that points them...