{"id":15490,"date":"2011-10-07T00:50:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T15:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=15490"},"modified":"2011-10-07T00:50:39","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T15:50:39","slug":"kddi-and-softbank-to-accept-iphone-4s-pre-orders-from-october-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/kddi-and-softbank-to-accept-iphone-4s-pre-orders-from-october-7\/","title":{"rendered":"KDDI (And SoftBank) To Accept iPhone 4S Pre-Orders From October 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/27\/au-box-kddi-motorola-and-opera-intro-new-multimedia-terminal-in-japan\/kddi_logo_au\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1067\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1067\" title=\"kddi_logo_au\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/kddi_logo_au.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/13\/livedoor-softbank-fon-to-offer-free-wi-fi-after-the-quake\/softbank-logo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13309\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13309\" title=\"Softbank \u30ed\u30b4\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/softbank-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe iPhone 4S is coming to Japan: both <a href=\"http:\/\/mb.softbank.jp\/en\/\">SoftBank Mobile<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/22\/japans-2nd-telco-kddi-reportedly-to-sell-iphone5\/\">new provider<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.au.kddi.com\/english\/index.html\">KDDI au<\/a>, the No. 3 and 2 mobile carriers in this country, will start accepting pre-orders from Friday October 7, as shown on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/jp\/iphone\/buy\/\">Apple Japan&#8217;s website<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe iPhone 4S will then become available exactly one week later, on <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/05\/iphone-4s-to-be-sold-from-8-a-m-october-14-apple-japanese-site-says\/\">October 14<\/a> (as in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and the UK).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/07\/kddi-and-softbank-to-accept-iphone-4s-pre-orders-from-october-7\/kddi-iphone-4s\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15491\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15491\" title=\"kddi iphone 4s\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/kddi-iphone-4s.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAccording to Japanese business daily The Nikkei, KDDI will offer the phone in 1,200 locations all over the country, including electronics retailers. The company plans to boost this number to 5,000 as early as at the end of next month.<br \/>\nJust like SoftBank, KDDI will offer the iPhone 4S only in brick-and-mortar stores, not online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iPhone 4S is coming to Japan: both SoftBank Mobile and new provider KDDI au, the No. 3 and 2 mobile carriers in this country, will start accepting pre-orders from Friday October 7, as shown on Apple Japan&#8217;s website. The iPhone 4S will then become available exactly one week later, on October 14 (as in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/kddi-and-softbank-to-accept-iphone-4s-pre-orders-from-october-7\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">KDDI (And SoftBank) To Accept iPhone 4S Pre-Orders From October 7<\/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],"tags":[1736,1943,3436],"class_list":["post-15490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular-phone","category-japan","tag-iphone-4s","tag-kddi-au","tag-softbank","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15490","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=15490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}