iPad 3G available for free in Japan with two-year Softbank contract
Japan's Softbank Mobile is subsidizing the entire cost of a 16GB iPad 3G (translated link) for those willing to sign a contract for two years of monthly data plan payments. By agreeing to pay Softbank $56 (¥4,725) a month at least 24 times, custome...
iPad Free In Japan With Softbank’s New Two-Year Plan
It appears that carriers worldwide are all revising their iPad subsidy plans ahead of the holiday season that’s approaching really fast. A few minutes ago, as noted by Engadget, Softbank announced [Google Translation] that starting December 3rd you’ll be able to get an iPad for free if you subscribe to the carrier’s new two-year data...
Buying iPhones in Japan: Brandon’s Sob Story
[Ed: Considering India won’t get the iPhone 4 till well after muggle Christmas, it gives me great pleasure to publish this article. This is for all those who didn’t get an iPhone 4 today.]
Remember when Steve Jobs said that Apple held back on international iPad releases because they wanted to be able to meet demand?...
Japan avoids an iPhone 4 meltdown
The servers slowed but didn't crash in Tokyo Tuesday as customers queued up for hours For reasons that aren't immediately clear, Japan didn't suffer the nationwide meltdowns that brought Apple's (AAPL) and AT&T's (T) servers to their knees Tuesday, the first day of pre-orders for the iPhone 4 that goes on sale June 24. There...
Apple grabs 72% of Japan's smartphone market
Defying skeptics, iPhone sales tripled in the most recent quarter Apple (AAPL) has cracked Japan's tough smartphone market wide open, according to a report in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal. The evidence: Apple sold 1.7 million iPhones in Japan, or 72% of all smartphones sold, in the fiscal year that ended March 31, according to Tokyo-based...
Japanese iPad Customers Are Getting the Runaround
For those not following the story, Japan is set to release a SIM-locked contract-locked iPad with Softbank, and obviously, Japanese folks are a little more than annoyed. Some of them have been emailing Apple’s new unofficial PR spokesman, who also happens to be their CEO. “Actually, the version of iPad sold in Japan does accept...
Apple controls 72% of Japanese smartphone market
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Softbank Corp., Japan's sole iPhone carrier, has announced that the iPhone accounted for 72% of smartphones shipped in the country during the fiscal year that ended March 31. The fact that the iPhone has penetrated 72% of the market in Japan...Is the iPhone really the Paris Hilton of mobile phones?
"iPhone makes for worldwide loss" reads the headline in Sunday's Guardian, whose editors apparently missed the flurry of similar pieces that appeared three weeks earlier.
"Telcom operators hurt selling iPhones" was how Reuters handled the story, back on Aug. 17. "Who's screwing who? (sic)" asked Shanzai.com the next day. And from ITWire.com: "iPhone — The Paris...
Survey: The iPhone is No. 1 in Japan – Updated
Gauging the iPhone’s popularity in Japan is not easy.
Just ask Brian X. Chen. He wrote a piece for Wired.com last April called Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone suggesting that despite the long lines that greeted the iPhone 3G last summer, the device was a big flop in Japan.
“Apple’s iPhone has wowed most of the...
