Survey: iPhone is top smartphone in Japan

iPhone is doing better in Japan than Wired.com expected … much better! Nikkei.net has posted a report on Japanese tech market research company’s (BCN’s) survey of Japanese handset sales. This was not just a tiny sampling. 2,300 stores that sell mobile phones participated in the BCN survey.  The results? In the smartphone category, the iPhone [...]

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Smartphone sales in Japan continuing to grow

iPhonAsia stumbled upon a new blog focusing on iPhone in Japan. This blog has no contact info or authorship attribution and only one post. But we liked what we read and you might also.
Excerpt: With all the talk that the Japanese cellphone market will never go for Apple’s iPhone, take note of data from Yano Economic Laboratory:
Smartphone [...]

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iPhone helps Softbank with subscriber takeaways

macnn/electronista
KDDI hit by iPhone 3G’s Japan launch
EXCERPT: Japanese wireless carrier KDDI has seen its growth stifled in July primarily by the iPhone 3G launch the same month, according to a report from the company itself. The company’s subscriber growth was near flat at just 17,000 new users for the month and saw the first month KDDI has known where the amount [...]

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Japan: Softbank’s iPhone Coup

Softbank’s iPhone Coup
Posted by: Kenji Hall on July 11
EXCERPT: NTT DoCoMo’s top brass must be kicking themselves right about now. Japan’s top mobile operator lost out to Softbank in the contest to sell Apple’s iPhone 3G, allowing the third-largest operator to bask in today’s hype and headlines. The iPhone’s arrival in Japan was front-page news [...]

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iPhone 3G in Japan a huge success!

Post courtesy Boxerconan 
Update – Tokyo
After the crazy festivity in Omote Sando shop, other stores started selling the iPhone at noon.
Akihabara, a huge electronics town or “geek town” was another crazy one.  At least one thousand people showed up  in front of a big electronics store. Yurakucho is an office town. They had a big wave of [...]

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iPhone 3G now selling in Japan

Bloomberg: Apple’s New IPhone 3G Begins Selling in Tokyo to Lines, Waits 
By Connie Guglielmo and Pavel Alpeyev
July 11 (Bloomberg) – Apple Inc.’s new iPhone went on sale today with crowds lining up outside stores in Tokyo and Auckland, New Zealand, as Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs takes aim at Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry.
Minoru Hagiyama arrived at Softbank [...]

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iPhone 3G Japan – Guided Tour ガイド付きツアー(日本のバージョン>) ここ

iPhone 3G Guided Tour (Japanese Version) > HERE

iPhone 3Gガイド付きツアー(日本のバージョン>) ここ

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Docomo subscribers ready to jump to Softbank for iPhone

 
Survey: 29% of Japanese Consider Switching Carriers to Use iPhone
Jul 4, 2008 20:33
Mami Akasaka, Tech-On!

Consumer intention to purchase the iPhone

Kakaku.com Inc, which runs the “Kakaku.com” price comparison portal for home appliances and other items, carried out a survey on Apple Inc’s “iPhone” mobile phone to be shortly launched in Japan July 11, 2008.
The survey was [...]

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Docomo working an iPhone deal … maybe

 
DoCoMo Will Be Flexible in IPhone Talks, Yamada Says-Bloomberg
 
By Pavel Alpeyev and Junko Kikkawa
July 3 (Bloomberg) — NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan’s largest mobile-phone operator, will be flexible in negotiations with Apple Inc. to offer the iPhone, President Ryuji Yamada said.
“It’s common sense that Apple wants to sell as many iPhones worldwide as possible and to [...]

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