{"id":14087,"date":"2011-05-13T20:48:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T11:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=14087"},"modified":"2011-05-13T20:48:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T11:48:16","slug":"japanese-girl-band-akb48-gets-android-and-iphone-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/japanese-girl-band-akb48-gets-android-and-iphone-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Girl Band AKB48 Gets Android And iPhone Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/akb48.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14090\" title=\"akb48\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/akb48.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIf you still doubt that Japan is in the middle of a smartphone revolution, here is another news item that serves as a good piece of evidence for it: Japanese pop sensation <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AKB48\">AKB48<\/a> released apps for the iPhone and Android today &#8211; in both English and Japanese (<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/jp\/app\/akb48\/id433147957?mt=8\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/market.android.com\/details?id=jp.co.akb48.m\">Android market<\/a> link).<br \/>\nFans of the country&#8217;s most popular girl pop band can download the apps for free to view the latest AKB48 news, profiles of all 48 members, their discography, and to access the band&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/AKB48\">YouTube channel<\/a>.<br \/>\nFor 350 yen ($4.30), users get a number of additional features, for example access the blogs of the girls and staff members, a Q&amp;A corner for members, etc.<br \/>\nThe official AKB48 blog on the PC can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/ameblo.jp\/akihabara48\/entry-10889801768.html\">here<\/a>. Some of the singers&#8217; blogs are <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/06\/who-are-japans-top-10-celebrity-bloggers\/\">among the most popular in Japan<\/a> as a whole.<br \/>\nScreenshots of the AKB48 iPhone app:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/akb48_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14091\" title=\"akb48_1\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/akb48_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"579\" height=\"423\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/akb48_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14092\" title=\"akb48_2\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/akb48_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you still doubt that Japan is in the middle of a smartphone revolution, here is another news item that serves as a good piece of evidence for it: Japanese pop sensation AKB48 released apps for the iPhone and Android today &#8211; in both English and Japanese (iTunes, Android market link). Fans of the country&#8217;s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/japanese-girl-band-akb48-gets-android-and-iphone-applications\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japanese Girl Band AKB48 Gets Android And iPhone Applications<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,17,23],"tags":[164,224,281,1732,1779],"class_list":["post-14087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular-phone","category-japan","category-new-service","tag-akb48","tag-android","tag-apps","tag-iphone","tag-j-pop","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}