The Sharp Galapagos EB-A71GJ-B is a 7-inch Honeycomb tablet that will start selling from December 9th onwards in Japan, aka Nippon, aka the land of the rising sun. It will cost the equivalent of $780. No word as yet on the U.S release of this tablet.
NTT DoCoMo is releasing a special edition Globetrotter Classic SE Smartphone on October 28th; only 5,000 pieces of this Fujitsu-made Android handset will be released.
nottv is a new broadcaster and is mulling the launch of a TV channel for viewing solely on tablets and smartphones. The announcement has come at the ongoing CEATEC in Japan. No idea if the nottv in question is http://www.nottv.ca/ which gives indie artists of all hues a platform for their talent and get royalties as [...]
Motorola launched the PHOTON WiMAX smartphone in Japan on September 26th. This Android 2.3 handset from Motorola Mobility marks the return of Motorola to the land of the rising sun. It will ride on KDDI airwaves. With WiMAX tethering, you can turn your device into a WiFi hotspot that can host up to 8 devices.
The Asus TOUGH-ETBW11AA tablet has just been announced by the manufacturer and KDDI, one of Japan’s largest wireless operators. The slate does not have any standout specs but what it does have is resistance to heat, dust, grime, and water.
Huawei has launched a smartphone that looks like a featurephone. Is there a niche for it or was a designer at the company feeling nostalgic? The likeliest reason is that the Huawei Smart Bar allows the company to notch a first. Yup, this is the world’s first Android candybar smartphone. You have three colors to [...]
Sharp’s glasses-free 3D smartphone, the Aquos SH8298U goes to SoftBank in Japan. No word as of now if this phone available in red and white will ever travel westward to the U.S and Europe. This 4.2-inch qHD handset is powered by a 1.4GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 processor and also carries the Adreno 205 graphics chip. The phone [...]
eMobile has launched Smart Bar, a candy bar smartphone, in Japan. The handset runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread and is powered by an 800MHz Qualcomm processor. 512MB of internal storage is boosted by 2GB through microSD and 32GB via microSDHC. The phone is manufactured by Huawei and comes with a 3-inch WVGA screen. This 3G handset [...]
The Fujitsu IS12T smartphone will be available with KDDI-AU in Japan; the cost breakdown is as follows – New retail price $958 MNP retail price $753 New price with 2-year contract $458 MNP price with 2-year contract $252 – for NTT DoCoMo and Softbank users switching to KDDI.
ASUS has announced that its Android 3.0 EEE Pad Transformer TF 101 tablet will be available in Japan from next month onwards. It will be priced at 59,800 Yen. ASUS Android 3.0 EEE Pad Transformer TF 101 Specs NVIDIA® Tegra™ 2 1.0GHz dual-core CPU 1080p video playback Android 3.0 Honeycomb O.S. Adobe Flash® 10.2 Full [...]
Cowon C2 MP3 player is now available in Japan; the Korean manufacturer of MP3 players and PMP devices has announced this. The MP3 player is powered by a Pentium III 500 MHz CPU and runs different versions of the Windows OS. It will be available in two storage capacities, 8GB and 16GB, priced at Yen [...]
The Toshiba Regza AT300 is a tablet offering by the Japanese electronics giant. It has impressive specs, storage could have been greater than the 16GB that it comes with. It has been priced at ¥60,000 or US $730. The company has indicated a June debut for the tablet in Japan. The Toshiba AT300 has a [...]
NTT DoCoMo gave the Japanese a sweet Christmas gift by launching the country’s first LTE Network on Dec 24th. The company claims download speeds of of 75 Mbps in high-traffic indoor areas such as airport terminals and around 37.5 Mbps in outdoor places where uplink speeds can touch 12.5 Mbps. The initial offering is LTE [...]
The Toshiba Biblio Leaf is a solar powered e-reader. Others including LG have been there first. This 6-inch e-ink display reader has some pretty neat features. The monochrome screen has a resolution of 800×600 pixels.
The Epson Endeavor NY2000 Notebook newly introduced in Japan is available in two models – home and business. The home use model has been priced at Yen 55,230 or approximately $660 whereas the business use model of this notebook costs Yen 75,180 or around $900. Both devices have a 14-inch display and weigh a not [...]
The “manufactured in China” ZTE Libero is set to be the first Chinese smartphone to be made available in the Japanese market. It will be introduced later this month through Japanese carrier Softbank. The phone features a 3.5-inch touchscreen and runs Android 2.2. Language support extends to English, Japanese, and Chinese.
The Sharp Galapagos tablets that we first mentioned way back in October are now on sale in Japan where they have been available since yesterday, December 10th. The 5.5-inch and 10.8-inch tablets can be purchased online.
The Gadmei PMP is guaranteed to make you stand out in a crowd; it’s got a humongous 8-inch TFT LCD screen with 16:9 ratio and 1280×768 resolution.
An eyeglass retailer in Japan, the Vision Optic Co.,ltd, has implemented a novel in-store sales marketing idea. The company has chosen the MIRAI-TOUCH sales promotion Tool which uses the Samsung GALAXY Tab to let customers virtually try on eyewear. <!–more–> The idea is simplicity itself, the store takes a photograph of the customer and fits [...]
