Update – 09/16/09: According to a report on Sina.com, 3G mobile payment handsets (“wave-to-pay”) are now undergoing trials in Shanghai. No details yet on the hardware/software modifications necessary to activate wave-to-pay. Swipe-to-pay mobile payments are nothing new in Japan and Korea. iPhone’s authorized carrier in Japan, Softbank, has a “Felica seal” (sticker) that can be [...]
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Posted in iPhone in Japan on Sep 10th, 2009
via kei_shimadaon 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 … [...]
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iPhonAsia comment: There is a distinct possibility (albeit just guesswork) that Apple will land two iPhone deals in PRC for launch in 2009 … a customized TD iPhone 3G for China Mobile and a more standard iPhone 3G (already W-CDMA ready) for China Unicom. See related iPhonAsia posts > HERE … HERE … HERE … HERE … HERE … HERE … HERE … and HERE China Unicom to Launch 1st [...]
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Posted in iPhone on Nov 18th, 2008
Update: 11/18/08 – More Wang Jianzhou quotes from Macau GSMA conference: Apple was “very, very successful” not only with the iPhone, but also with the application downloads from the Apple App Store. “We have [non-]disclosure agreements with Apple, so I can’t disclose many details. All I can say is that China is still interested in [...]
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Posted in 3G, AAPL, iPhone on Nov 11th, 2008
See Video > HERE *************************************************** Excerpt: iPhone vs. BlackBerry: Apple Has Fallen But RIM Can’t Get Up Apple shares have fallen on hard times lately and the company remains vulnerable to a consumer slowdown. But, relatively speaking, Steve Jobs & Co. are holding up much better than its rivals, notably Research In Motion. In the third quarter, the iPhone [...]
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