Smartphones
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KDDI To Bring Android Apps To China Mobile Subscribers
Japan’s second biggest telco and mobile carrier KDDI is planning to bring a set of made-in-Japan apps to Android users in China, in cooperation with China Mobile, the country’s biggest …
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enchant.js: New HTML5/JavaScript Game Engine For Smartphones
Tokyo-based Ubiquitous Entertainment (UEI) announced [JP] “enchant.js” yesterday, an HTML5/JavaScript game engine for smartphones (and PCs). The engine is available in beta, it’s …
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9leap: D2C And UEI Launch Program For Young Smartphone Game Creators
Do you know a student in Japan who is under 25 years of age and who can create cool smartphone games? If yes, 9leap, a new program that just launched, might be of interest to you. 9leap is the brain …
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Docomo Merges i-Mode And Smartphone Businesses
There is no reason for i-mode provider NTT Docomo to give up on its highly profitable mobile Internet service for feature phones as long as it makes money, but Japan’s biggest mobile carrier is …
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NHN Plans To Flood Japan With Smartphone Games
NHN Japan, the local arm of South Korean web giant NHN and operator of online gaming portal Hangame, is planning to seriously step up game development for smartphones, especially on Android. …
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15 New Games: GREE Beefs Up Smartphone Offering
Another day, another GREE-related news item on Asiajin. Today, it’s about GREE’s web site for smartphones for which new games by third-party developers have been added. If you access GREE …
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Report: Smartphones Account For 50% Of Current Handset Sales in Japan
Goodbye, Galakei feature phones: according to Tokyo-based market research firm BCN (published in The Nikkei today), smartphones accounted for 49.8% of the total number of handsets sold between …
