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While attending Macworld 2010, I had a chance to meet Nobi Hayashi, a highly-respected technology journalist in Japan. Nobi was with a contingency of tech enthusiasts from Japan. I chatted briefly with the group about the next gen iPhone (due this summer?) and the new iPad. I was curious to get their take on which [...]

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Serkan Toto has a post on Mobile Crunch today highlighting iPhone’s success in Asia. Among the key takeaways — Apple’s carrier partner, Softbank, has now sold 3 million iPhones in Japan*, capturing a commanding 46% of the smartphone market …
It’s big in Korea, it’s probably big in China’s grey market, and the iPhone continues to [...]

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December 16, 2009: iPhone launched in Guam on December 11 without the fanfare in more populace markets. Yet the enthusiasm for iPhone in the tiny island nation is strong. Japan-based DoCoMo quickly sold out of their iPhone allocations in Guam and is awaiting resupply. The second carrier in Guam, GTA, has also [...]

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iPhone 3G/3GS most popular smartphones in Japan
An August 2009 survey conducted by Kakaku.com shows that Softbank has a winner on their hands in the form of Apple’s iPhone. 21.5% of survey respondents own smartphones. Not too surprising was that 73.6% of smartphone owners browse more. Most interesting perhaps was the most popular smartphone … 55% of [...]

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Japan’s 3rd largest carrier, Softbank Corp, signed up 115,100 new subscribers in August leapfrogging the island nation’s largest carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. with 112,900 new subs, and KDDI, the second largest carrier, with 77,800 new customers.
Softbank is currently Japan’s sole iPhone provider and it’s a safe bet that Apple’s popular smartphones (3G and [...]

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