Keitai by COACH via KDDI 10 days ago Read More
Coach and KDDI have announced they will offer limited edition COACH branded handsets - 1,941 units available, based on the company being founded in 1941 - from December. These models are produced b...
Nokia To Launch MVNO in Japan 12 days ago Read More
Finnish cell phone manufacturer Nokia will start its own cellphone service in Japan as early as February 2009 according to this article on the Yomiuri Shimbun. Apparently the Finnish manufacturing ...
Softbank Mobile Joins Symbian Foundation 13 days ago Read More
The initial board members of the Symbian Foundation welcomed the latest supporters of the initiative at the interim Steering Group meeting in Tokyo this week. This announcement [pdf] includes suppo...
DoCoMo Preps for 2009 Android Launch 15 days ago Read More
DoCoMo is gearing up for launch of the Google phone in 2009 according to company officials. The Nikkei said Wednesday South Korea's KT Freetel is also involved in the DoCoMo-Google project but the ...
DoCoMo to Acquire Stake in Tata 22 days ago Read More
According to this post on Bloomberg a few hours ago, DoCoMo is preparing to announce they will take a stake in Tata Teleservices. A company official, who asked not to be identified, is quoted as st...
DoCoMo Rolls with 22 New Handsets 27 days ago Read More
With all guns blazing market leader NTT DoCoMo took the wraps off their next-generation series of handsets at a press conference in Tokyo on Wednesday afternoon, watch the full event video (in Engl...
SoftBank Mobile Unveils 16 New Models 30 days ago Read More
SoftBank Mobile opened a floodgate of new handsets for the year-end season with an impressive presser in Tokyo on Thursday. While the Omnia from Samsung with it's TouchWiz UI was turning alot of he...
KDDI Announces New Handset Line-up 36 days ago Read More
KDDI has introduced seven new handsets for it's fall and winter season. This new lineup has three stand-out models; the Wooo W63H from Hitachi has a first in the world, as of this announcement, 3.1...
NEC Bringing on the BubbleTalk 41 days ago Read More
NEC and Bubble Motion have announced the formation of a global partnership agreement. Under the terms, NEC will exclusively provide the BubbleTALK service to telecom operators in the Japanese marke...
KDDI Reports 1H Jump in Quartly Profits 42 days ago Read More
KDDI Corp has reported a 27 percent jump in quarterly profit, attributed in part to lower handset subsidies, with operating profit at 138.5 billion yen ($1.38 billion) in the July-September quarter...