iPhone in Japan Sales Estimate

Seed Planning research est. 1.7M iPhones sold in Japan for 2009. Jpn: http://bit.ly/awCoWB via @yaromir

Machine Translation

Smart phone market about 2.4 million and expansion. The overseas manufacturer share is about 15% and has expanded from the previous year’s 10%.

I phone extends the cellular phone sales market, and there is good sales of about 1.7 million, too and the smart phone market has extended with about 2.4 million in fiscal year 2009. The number of overseas manufacturers ..about 15% share.. increases from the previous year’s 10% though the home manufacturer decreased numbers of sales.

As for 39.2 million-40 million, and a smart phone among these the cellular phone sales market of fiscal year 2010, about 4.4 million(1.8 times compared with the between last year) is expected.

Sales such as the approach on an open smart phone/terminal and the data communication cards are important in a portable agency. Besides this, the approach on SIM lock release (free SIM) and the corporate business strengthening, etc. are valued.

Time for Some iPhone in Japan Facts?
Perhaps we’re the only ones wondering how an enterprise ISP like SoftBank was not prepared to scale for the obvious increased demand related to this event? Despite all the so-called ‘buzz’ the company continues to with-hold official numbers on actual device sales, while a quick search easily found this Q1 2009 report from AT&T stating 1.6M iPhone 3G unit sales.

So, after 2-full years since it’s debut in Japan.. have they managed to move 3M iPhones - in total - and ‘if’ so, that would represent under 3% market share. Of course we can explore the achievements, certainly there are several, but some factual results would add a little perspective.. just saying.. — Eds