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justinian on 24 April 2010
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heruamon said:
justinian said:
heruamon said:
kowenicki said:
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There goes the whole it sales bad there casue its american.


the gaming market isnt the phone market.

 

 

Also, who are the Japanese smart phone makers?

Lets see now. Last time I was there (little over a year or so ago) these were the top Japanese smartphone companies. I don't think any were released in the west.

1) Sharp- their touch screen phone is big in Japan.

2) Docomo - one of their models was a larger iphone "copy".

3) Emobile - the blackberry of Japan.

4) Hitachi - does smartphones.

Just because you never heard of them doesn't mean they don't exist.

This is the market apple is up against.

 

 

 


It's been about 8 months since I was last in Japan, but whenever i when to the electronic stores, I was always surprised by the lack of smartphone presence...so perhaps they didn't push it to the masses. 

That I cannot make a comment on. I was however informed that the phone that was dominant in the "youth" market was the Sharp (not sure of the model, or indeed if it is a smartphone), but Japanese nontheless.

The dominant business phones are the Emobile and the DoMoCo which is similar to the iphone in looks but uses Windows mobile.

When I was in Japan (work related) I was able to have a fiddle with both as most in the office had one or the other and again I was informed that they are popular for business use within the country.

From that experience I know that it is not a cakewalk for Apple in Japan and the Japanese have "homegrown" options to choose from.

Toshiba (Japanese) is also a big player in Japan and even released the TG01 in the UK. Apparently another "iphone killer".

Yet they seem to show apple (an american company) love. The ipod is dominant. Don't sony and every other japanese electronic company make a mp3 player of some sort?