{"id":2487,"date":"2009-03-04T18:14:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T09:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2009-03-04T18:14:08","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T09:14:08","slug":"ntt-docomo-halted-brand-new-blackberry-sales-while-sankei-keeps-distributing-its-1st-newspaper-app-for-the-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/ntt-docomo-halted-brand-new-blackberry-sales-while-sankei-keeps-distributing-its-1st-newspaper-app-for-the-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"NTT DoCoMo Halted Brand-New BlackBerry Sales, While Sankei Keeps Distributing Its 1st Newspaper App For The Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2492\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/docomo_logo.gif\" alt=\"NTT DoCoMo Logo\" width=\"155\" height=\"40\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2480\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/blackberry-logo.jpg\" alt=\"BlackBerry Logo\" width=\"230\" height=\"48\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2481\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/sankeishinbun.gif\" alt=\"Sankei Shimbun\" width=\"279\" height=\"30\" \/><br \/>\nJapan&#8217;s largest mobile operator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nttdocomo.co.jp\/english\/\">NTT DoCoMo<\/a> started selling the brand-new smartphone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackberry.com\/blackberrybold\/\">BlackBerry Bold (BBB)<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rim.com\/\">Research In Motion(RIM)<\/a> recently, but the operator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nttdocomo.co.jp\/info\/notice\/page\/090227_00_m.html\">halted[J]<\/a> sales after only a week since its introduction, because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessable.com\/news\/2009\/02\/27\/blackberry-bold-overheating-some-sales-halted\/\">the handset has reportedly overheated while the battery is being recharged<\/a>.<br \/>\nBy the way, we covered <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/tag\/newspaper\/\">a couple of\u00a0 stories about newspaper apps<\/a> last month, and it is surprising that the first ever BBB app for its Japanese Edition was developed and introduced by <a href=\"http:\/\/sankei.jp.msn.com\/\">the Sankei Newspaper[J]<\/a>.\u00a0 (Available from <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.smartphone.nttdocomo.co.jp\/material\/free_app\/sankei001.zip\">this link<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 File size: 28 kilobytes)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2478\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/sankei_blackberry.jpg\" alt=\"Sankei's App for Blackberry Bold\" width=\"464\" height=\"214\" \/><br \/>\nUnlike Sankei&#8217;s iPhone app shown below, the BBB app (above) allows you to read the 30 latest stories in each of the following categories: local news, economics &amp; IT, politics, international and sports. (The iPhone app shows you the entire image of each page of the printed edition. You can click a part of the page to zoom-in to see pictures and read stories using the app.)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2484\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/sankei_iphone.jpg\" alt=\"Sankei's iPhone App\" width=\"223\" height=\"317\" \/><br \/>\nBBB is known for <a href=\"http:\/\/celebrityblackberrysightings.com\/\">being used by celebrities<\/a> including U.S. President Barack Obama and Britney Spears.<br \/>\n(Proofread by: Sean O&#8217;Hagan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s largest mobile operator NTT DoCoMo started selling the brand-new smartphone BlackBerry Bold (BBB) from Research In Motion(RIM) recently, but the operator halted[J] sales after only a week since its introduction, because the handset has reportedly overheated while the battery is being recharged. By the way, we covered a couple of\u00a0 stories about newspaper apps&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/ntt-docomo-halted-brand-new-blackberry-sales-while-sankei-keeps-distributing-its-1st-newspaper-app-for-the-phone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NTT DoCoMo Halted Brand-New BlackBerry Sales, While Sankei Keeps Distributing Its 1st Newspaper App For The Phone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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":[445,2573,2664,3211],"class_list":["post-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular-phone","category-japan","category-new-service","tag-blackberry","tag-newspaper","tag-ntt-docomo","tag-sankei-newspaper","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}