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Softbank ads getting stranger and stranger

Blogs Many of you might have already seen the unusual Softbank ad portraying Brad Pitt as a sumo wrestler's personal assistant. If that's not weird enough for you, the latest batch of ... Read story »

Japan to prevent pandemics with GPS phones

Crave The iPhone 3G is one of the most popular GPS-enabled cell phones. Just recently, Softbank Mobile, Japan's biggest cell phone carrier, signed a deal with Aoyama Gakuin University to provide ... Read story »

Apple iPhone 3G really satisfy you?

Blogs Are you really happy with your iPhone 3G? This hottest mobile gadget has still not been released in Korea for a few reasons. Mainly that WIPI (Korean government mobile Internet standard ... Read story »

Japanese university uses iPhone to keep tab of students

Crave The attendance reporting app used by the Aoyama Gakuin university. If American school children have to resort to some special mosquito ringtone to use cell phones at school, a university ... Read story »

Disney does a Cinderella act in Japan

Crave Disney and Softbank have geen making phones for kids in Japan for some time, with the handsets becoming increasingly adult-like in both function and appearance. Its latest mobile handset also seems ... Read story »

iQueue for iPhone? iThinkNot!

Blogs By now you've seen the pictures and read the reports of the lines outside Softbank stores. Allow me to offer a counter-picture: Here in the sleepy town of Kanazawa I decided ... Read story »

HTC, iPhone, BlackBerry coming to Korea

Blogs The Korean mobile market is facing big waves in the smart phone category lately, and this is expected to lead to a showdown in late 2008. SKT and KTF, two Korean ... Read story »

Hutchison Telecom announces iPhone 3G price and data plans

Crave Just 10 more days to go before the iPhone 3G will be available in Hong Kong, one of the four countries including Australia, Japan and New Zealand that are getting the ... Read story »

How to play Transformers with your phone

Crave It's kind of surprising that one of the big handset makers didn't come up with a Transformers phone at the height of the movie's hype last year. After all, just about ... Read story »

How the in-laws stole my iPhone

Blogs Ok. So two weeks into my Tokyo Shift I finally picked up a mobile phone. My original intent, and the recommendation of all my friends, was (surprise surprise) to get an ... Read story »

Will Android phone and iPhone succeed in Korea?

Blogs KT confirmed to launch Apple iPhone within this year. But I'm still unsure of this since KT has been delaying the release. I am also still curious whether this will be ... Read story »

Lauding, lamenting Hello Kitty at 35

Features We celebrate 35 years of Sanrio's most famous face which has graced tens of thousands of products, from underwear to stationary and even airplanes.  Read story »

WWDC and the iPhone 3GS

Blogs Apple's WWDC keynote address had many of us here in Tokyo awake well into the early hours of Tuesday morning. There was no earth-shattering announcement (no tablet as many anticipated), but ... Read story »

Check the train schedule while you eat sushi...in Japan

Crave Tech-On reports that Fujitsu is currently conducting a test of the Kindle-like FLEPia mobile information terminal in Tokyo at the Termina Kinshicho Fujiya Restaurant. The test is being conducted as a ... Read story »

iPhone 3G gets TV tuner and battery pack in Japan

Crave Trust the Japanese to come up with cool tech to suit their lifestyles. Softbank has launched the One-Seg Wi-Fi TV tuner which doubles as a battery pack when plugged into the ... Read story »

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