Year: 2010

According to report by Asahi Shimbun, Sony will introduce the long awaited PSP phone, running on Android, next spring http://bit.ly/fswI5R

The Nikkei quotes Fujitsu President Masami Yamamoto saying they plan smartphone launches in India and China http://bit.ly/hl3PGP

DoCoMo, Japan’s pioneer of the mobile Internet and world 1st provider of 3G, launched Japan’s first LTE mobile service today – http://bit.ly/grhaaI

NTT and Index are joining to launch their own Android market called Appliko, debut in Jpn spring 2011 w/global plan: http://bit.ly/gGpRkS

SoftBank will run NFC Android trials on HTC Desire devices, with a collection of partners, starting in January 2011 http://bit.ly/hYHzpi

According to several reports, DeNA is under investigation by the FTC, prompting their shares to sink 10% this afternoon http://bit.ly/hGUzzQ

As noted over the last few months, details for the new DoCoMo bookstore launching in 2011 were just announced http://bit.ly/fRiIkd

NFC World has post on the latest NFC offering from Renesas which combines the controller with embedded secure chip http://bit.ly/fZ9Tur

According to the RIAJ Yearbook 2010, mobile music sales for 2009 in Japan tipped the scales at almost $1Billion usd. http://bit.ly/hHnuUg

DoCoMo has introduced a free WiFi ad campaign in Tokyo via a fleet of enabled taxis, complete with PSP for fun! http://bit.ly/eBZVAt