Archive for the 'Editor's Note' Category
iBarbarian vs. the Galapagos
Clearly two terms that touch raw nerves; the iPhone impact here along with the (r)evolution of mobile in Japan and its position in the global industry. To be fair and balanced - as we have always tried to do - neither, let alone both, of these topics are simple enough to describe in a few thousand words.
Setting the Record Straight for FT
After some time to reflect on this article by Financial Times we decided clearly somebody needs to step forward to shed some light on what should be obvious fact to most players in the game. The plan by DoCoMo to feature Android apps originally came to light (see last paragraph Here) at Mobile World Congress […]
Renesas Buys Nokia Modem Division
We tweeted this news four hours ago - with attribute link to the source at IntoMobile - and included a comment but it still has not appeared there so thought we’d cover this on WWJ directly instead. That thread is pasted in full below with Screen-Shot of Our Comment Here.
Summer 2010 - Japan Superphone Specs
For those who wonder Why Japan Couldn’t Make a Phone Like This.. it would be easy to shred your one-way approach, maybe we’ll get around to that yet. Meanwhile, lets just look forward for now shall we..?!?
A quick review of the new F-06B for DoCoMo by Fujitsu just released to the market here on June 12th. It’s the first example, that we can find, of a waterproof handset that has both slider and twister design, guess that was an engineering challenge. Touting 13MB camera with 4128×3096 .jpg resolution and full touch screen - with scrawling input - on 3.5 inch WVGA TFT display at 16.77 million colors or 480×960 dots. Continue>>
New Mob Rulz Flash e’Zine
Celebrating 10 Years and 100 Locations = The Centennial Edition..!! http://bit.ly/cTqjUv
MoMo Global Sets Sail!
Ya Gotta See the All New MobileMonday global website: http://www.mobilemonday.net It’s been a real labor of love for all of us here to pull that puppy together.. So - check it out!
Mobile Money Summit Presentation
Here’s a treat - Lars presentation, on video, at the recent Mobile Money Summit in Rio de Janerio!
Opera Declares Flash Support
Considering the market penetration of Opera in Japan and vast amount of mobile Flash driven offering here.. not much of a surprise. Without getting too deep into a predictable flame war, it is ‘interesting’ that Apple opposes the ubiquitous Adobe product supposedly based on their aversion to it being a proprietary standard.. when in-effect they are clearly “guilty” of that approach in many ways as well. Perhaps the real issue would have something more to-do with the fact that Flash would potentially crack open wider access to transactions beyond the current closed App Store money machine.. so until then you have the distant dream of html 5.
ZTE Remote Mobile WebCam
There will be plenty of shocked puppies here going forward. Mark our words this is just the beginning on what will surely become a common feature - worldwide - in the nearest future. In fact, it’s natural evolution of the current Otayori Photo frames Rev.1 we’ve seen rolling here over the last year.. 
Road Show Asia Presentation
The good folks running Mobile Squared kindly invited us to attend and present at their upcoming RoadShow Asia event in Singapore - all the Details Here - however, a perfect storm, aka Golden Week in Japan, means we’re unable to attend and will run our deck remotely via Skype.
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