Cellular Phone
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i-mode cellphone shipment announced to cease by end of this year
NTT Docomo announced today November 2, 2016 that they will end the sales of i-mode cellphones between this month November and December. No new i-mode supported featurephone is announced so that P-01H, …
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Docomo To End BlackBerry Service By 2017
According to ITmedia Mobile, NTT Docomo announced the termination of BlackBerry network service by March 31 2017. New application will be stopped at November 30th this year.
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Microsoft Japan Finally Upgrades Staffs’ 4 Years-old Windows Phone
Microsoft Japan announced today that its employees are to get Lumia 830 instead of their current Windows Phone IS12T, Windows Phone device which are not sold in Japan. The announcement also notes that …
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Up To 100 IMs Simuiltaneously! CyberAgent Releases Teen Girl MS "DECOLINK"
CyberAgent, Inc. [J] has released the smartphone free messenger service DECOLINK [J], geared towards teen girls, for their Smartphone Ameba [J]. “DECOLINK” is a free smartphone messenger service …
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Docomo's LTE Passes 10 Million Subscribers
NTT Docomo announced [J] today February 19, 2013 that their LTE service Xi got 10 million users yesterday, February 18, 2013. Here is a chart from their release. Docomo’s Xi began December 24, …
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SoftBank Starts Using The 900MHz "Platinum Band"
There can be no doubt that SoftBank is the mobile carrier with the weakest network among Japan’s big three telcos, following that of NTT Docomo and KDDI. But now there is hope that things will …
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"PayPal Here": SoftBank And PayPal Join Forces In Japan For Smartphone Payment Solution
PayPal President David Marcus, eBay CEO John Donahoe (PayPal is an eBay brand), and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son announced “PayPal Here” in Tokyo today, a payment solution for smartphones. …
