NTT DoCoMo Halted Brand-New BlackBerry Sales, While Sankei Keeps Distributing Its 1st Newspaper App For The Phone
Japan’s largest mobile operator NTT DoCoMo started selling the brand-new smartphone BlackBerry Bold (BBB) from Research In Motion(RIM) recently, but the operator halted[J] sales after only a week since its introduction, because the handset has reportedly overheated while the battery is being recharged.
By the way, we covered a couple of stories about newspaper apps last month, and it is surprising that the first ever BBB app for its Japanese Edition was developed and introduced by the Sankei Newspaper[J]. (Available from this link. File size: 28 kilobytes)
Unlike Sankei’s iPhone app shown below, the BBB app (above) allows you to read the 30 latest stories in each of the following categories: local news, economics & IT, politics, international and sports. (The iPhone app shows you the entire image of each page of the printed edition. You can click a part of the page to zoom-in to see pictures and read stories using the app.)
BBB is known for being used by celebrities including U.S. President Barack Obama and Britney Spears.
(Proofread by: Sean O’Hagan)
Author Information Masaru IKEDA has co-founded several system integration companies and consulting firms in Tokyo. He has been contributing serial columns to nationwide newspapers and IT periodicals, also he's currently serving as tech consultant for several web companies. See this for more bio.
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