{"id":6422,"date":"2009-11-11T13:26:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T04:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=6422"},"modified":"2009-11-11T13:26:14","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T04:26:14","slug":"softbank-to-add-iphone-like-wifi-feature-on-regular-cellphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/softbank-to-add-iphone-like-wifi-feature-on-regular-cellphones\/","title":{"rendered":"Softbank To Add iPhone-like WiFi Feature On Regular Cellphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/softbank_mobile.gif\" alt=\"Softbank Mobile&#039;s Logo\" title=\"Softbank Mobile&#039;s Logo\" width=\"141\" height=\"21\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3609\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/softbank-2009-winter-models-385x400.png\" alt=\"softbank-2009-winter-models\" title=\"softbank-2009-winter-models\" width=\"385\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6426\" \/><br \/>\nSoftbank Mobile, the third largest, and iPhone exclusive provider cellphone carrier in Japan, announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softbank.jp\/mb\/special\/09winter\/product\/\">their 22 (75 colors) new cellphone &#8220;Winter&#8221; models<\/a> [J]. 8 of 22 will have WiFi feature and users are encouraged to join the new WiFi plan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softbankmobile.co.jp\/ja\/news\/press\/2009\/20091110_03\/index.html\">&#8220;Ke-tai WiFi&#8221;(cellphone WiFi)<\/a> [J], which may cover up their 3G connectivity weakness due to dull investment against other top 2, if many users switch WiFi when they can.<br \/>\nCEO Masayoshi Son also announced Android phone release in next Spring. It was not disclosed which vendor it is but he said &#8220;the most advanced Android phone (currently) available&#8221;.<br \/>\nTheir new TV commercial features Quentin Tarantino, who plays &#8220;Tara Ojisan&#8221;(Uncle Tara) and enthusiastically talks about Samurai. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v5maPNdYPmQ\">The part of making<\/a> was aired at the press conference.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v5maPNdYPmQ\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/quentine-tarantino-on-softbank-commercial-400x234.png\" alt=\"quentine-tarantino-on-softbank-commercial\" title=\"quentine-tarantino-on-softbank-commercial\" width=\"400\" height=\"234\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6423\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHe was on another Japanese cellphone commercial couple of years ago and played a foreigner who can never stop talking.<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hjgjEN0SvRI&#038;hl=ja&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/k-tai.impress.co.jp\/docs\/news\/20091110_327938.html\">Ke-tai Watch<\/a> [J]<\/p>\n<h3>See Also:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.softbankmobile.co.jp\/ja\/news\/press\/2009\/20091110_04\/\">Softbank Mobile release<\/a> [J]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Softbank Mobile, the third largest, and iPhone exclusive provider cellphone carrier in Japan, announced their 22 (75 colors) new cellphone &#8220;Winter&#8221; models [J]. 8 of 22 will have WiFi feature and users are encouraged to join the new WiFi plan &#8220;Ke-tai WiFi&#8221;(cellphone WiFi) [J], which may cover up their 3G connectivity weakness due to dull&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/softbank-to-add-iphone-like-wifi-feature-on-regular-cellphones\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Softbank To Add iPhone-like WiFi Feature On Regular Cellphones<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[595,3015,3439,4083],"class_list":["post-6422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular-phone","category-japan","tag-cellphone","tag-quentine-tarantino","tag-softbank-mobile","tag-wifi","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}