For many Japanese adolescents, cellphone is inseparable partner of their lives, you might have heard. Different from PC, kids can have their own (not-shared with your family/siblings, not filtered by home-broadband), can bring it with you to school, outside, anywhere (it is important when your writing back within 5 minutes to your friend’s mail is… Continue reading Teenager Prefer Cellphone Keypad to PC Keyboard
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Tomorrow’s Rainbow: 86-year old Japanese nun writes cell phone novel
Novels and poetry written, bought and read on cell phones are nothing unusual in mobile phone-crazy Japan. Now it came to light that Jakucho Setouchi, a 86-year old Buddhist nun has written a long-running cell phone novel series (keitai shousetsu in Japanese) without disclosing her real name for several months. Setouchi is an accomplished writer… Continue reading Tomorrow’s Rainbow: 86-year old Japanese nun writes cell phone novel
Is iPhone App Store really unique and advanced?
Wall Street Journal reported about how iPhone is not going well in Japan market. Like elsewhere, Japanese consumers lined up at stores in advance of the phone’s release on July 11, and many locations sold out almost immediately. Well, in Japan, the hype was somehow “produced”. As far as I heard, Softbank gathered 1,500 iPhone… Continue reading Is iPhone App Store really unique and advanced?
Mobage Town forays into PC web from mobile
Mobage Town, the Japan’s largest mobile social networking service(SNS) launched their “PC version” website on July 24th 2008. Mobage Town has made a totally new field “Cellularphone Social Network based on free games” and that success called many followers like GREE mobile, Puchige(Petit Game) Friends, Daishugou NEO, etc. PC SNS leader Mixi, has been providing… Continue reading Mobage Town forays into PC web from mobile
Face Off: iPhone 3G and Japanese cellphones
iPhone 3G provided by Softbank on coming 11th July will be the first iPhone in Japan. Since Jobs’ announcement, there are bunch of Japanese medias and blogs have been discussing if iPhone 3G is worth buying. To clarify how iPhone and the latest Japanese cellphones spec are different, Asiajin called for comments on what functionalities… Continue reading Face Off: iPhone 3G and Japanese cellphones
NTT Docomo provides high-speed cellularphone-web at home
NTT Docomo announced that they will start a new internet connection service “Home U” in June, which enables WiFi web access from cellularphone at home. With the latest cellphone type N906iL(nicknamed: “onefone”), which has not only data access over cellphone but also WiFi access feature, user can access their favorite cellularphone websites at maximum 54Mbps… Continue reading NTT Docomo provides high-speed cellularphone-web at home
Nekore: Webservice for the Japanese fashionista with no time
The Japanese are known to be one of the most fashion-conscious people in the world. And rumor has it they are the busiest. Their purchasing power is very high. Moreover, Japan boasts one of the largest markets for print magazines in the world. Combine these elements and out comes a web site like nekore. The… Continue reading Nekore: Webservice for the Japanese fashionista with no time
Cherry Blossom Frenzy hits mobile CGM
Weathernews Inc., the world largest private weather service company headquatered in Japan, is conducting the 5th year “Sakura Project (Cherry-blossom project)” with involving over 17,000 users around the nation via cellular phone browsers. People, willingly registering this nation-wide CGM project on the Weathernews mobile site ( http://wni.jp/ , seems only available from Japanese cellularphone), are… Continue reading Cherry Blossom Frenzy hits mobile CGM
2D barcode tombstone
Ishinokoe (means “voice of stone”) K.K. announced their newly designed tombstone series “Kuyou no mado” (“commemoration windows”), which has QR Code (Japanese 2D bar code) inside. This QR Code, enhanced version “Design QR Code”, developed and trademarked by IT Design, can have small extra images in the code, which does not prevent proper code scanning.… Continue reading 2D barcode tombstone
Japan’s Cyber University offers courses on PCs and mobiles
In April last year, Japan’s first so-called Cyber University opened its virtual doors. The university is private and headquartered in Fukuoka on the southern island of Kyuushu. It is run by a nonlisted stock company called Japan Cyber Education Institute which is mainly controlled by Japanese Internet telecom giant SoftBank. As of now, approximately 1,900… Continue reading Japan’s Cyber University offers courses on PCs and mobiles