Joint Innovation Lab Widget Platform
SoftBank Mobile and Sharp join Joint Innovation Lab consortium on initiative for mobile widget specs – PR in English
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DoCoMo Opens BlackBerry App Store
DoCoMo launched their BlackBerry app store, with product targeted to Japanese customers, this move was announced during a trade-show in July.
Mobility Business Summit 2009
How does a mobile industry change? It reads the tea leaves in a cup. Ok – bad translation – more of that to come below.. +_+
QR Code Scavenger Hunt in NYC
KidRobot based in NYC launches QR Code Scavenger Hunt campaign based on exposure to the platform in Japan, via MediaPost http://bit.ly/xjg9o
Japanese Cellphones & Global Markets
Lets take an A-B-C approach on this recent post from NYT. Since Gen Kanai has already provided a strong and balanced review, taking an open-source software approach, we will stick to the hardware aspect for our humble comments herein.
As long-time observers of the Japan market, with a decent grasp on the global stage considering that’s where many in our audience are based, we have a few thoughts about possible handset futures. As we see it, there are basically two niche ends of the spectrum: smartphones and emerging markets, so it’s reasonable to expect some near-term activity with DoCoMo and one or more of their handset partners getting underway in India, for example. A single digit share in either of those growth areas, let alone the main-stream replacement cycle, would easily surpass the home market annual volumes shipped as indicated at about 30M units. Now to the A-B-C heart of our argument. Follow along after the jump.
Samsung Jet Test Flight on Video
Wireless Watch Japan spent an interesting week in Singapore at the annual CommunicAsia conference and trade show recently where we managed to shoot this demo of the latest Samsung Jet offering which made it’s debut there on June 15th. Billed as ‘Smarter than a Smartphone’ the AMOLED display is super crisp at 480dpi and it’s 800MHz processor lends power to the speedy brand name. The companies Touch Whiz UI, with drag and drop widgets, and the newly minted Dolphin browser featuring one finger zoom while enabling tabbed browsing of up to five web pages at one time were all impressive additions. Watch the video and see for yourself — Special thanks to Mr. Shin from Samsung for taking the time!