Category: Wireless and Mobile 携帯・モバイル
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Trip to Singapore and Malaysia / シンガポール・マレーシアの旅
日本文が後ろに続きます。 I’m going on a trip to Singapore and Malaysia until next Thursday because we have the “Silver Week” in Japan, with two national holidays (next Monday and Thursday) and three days of leave. For me, this is this year’s second trip to foreign countries. As I have 20,000 miles of United Airlines’ frequent flyer…
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Presentation by Ryuji Yamada / ＮＴＴ ＤｏＣｏＭｏ山田社長の講演
日本文が後ろに続きます。 Last night I attended a meeting for alumni of Osaka University, where I graduated, to see the presentation by Ryuji Yamada, President and CEO of NTT DoCoMo, one of Japan’s mobile phone operators. Mr. Yamada is also a graduate from Osaka University and was invited to this meeting as a guest speaker. He talked…
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Some requests on Japanese mobile phones / 総務省のＳＩＭロック解除要請に寄せて
日本文が後ろに続きます。 I heard the news that the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan started discussing a policy to require mobile phone carriers to release SIM-lock-free handsets from the next generation. As is often written in some other entries of this blog, I have been dissatisfied with the current cellular phones in Japan because…
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I’ve got an iPhone! / ｉＰｈｏｎｅ買いました
日本文が後ろに続きます。 I’ve bought an iPhone. I ordered it from a broker in Hong Kong who got it at Apple Store Hong Kong, because the iPhone sold in Hong Kong is locked to no particular mobile carriers. In Japan, you can buy an iPhone at a Softbank cell phone shop but they sell only the iPhone…
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Unlocking my Blackberry / ブラックベリーのＳＩＭロック外し
日本文が後ろに続きます。 I’ve made my Blackberry Bold SIM-unlocked, because the Blackberry I bought in Japan was locked to NTT DoCoMo, a Japanese mobile phone carrier, so when I was abroad I had to fear the phone bill charging highly expensive roaming prices. Unlocking was easy: I got an unlock code for my device at http://expressunlockcode.com/bbexpress.aspx by…
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Cell phones in Taiwan
The Shizilin building in Ximending is a complex of cell phone shops, arcade game shops and a movie theater. The first floor of it has plenty of shops selling cell phones, cell phone accessories, cameras, electric devices etc., like Sincere Podium in Hong Kong. The staff doesn’t understand English, though. I got Nokia 6120 classic…
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My Blackberry Bold won’t turn on! / ブラックベリーの電源が入らない
日本文が後ろに続きます。 While I was in my parents’ house at Nishinomiya the battery of my Blackberry Bold I carried with me was too low to turn on the phone. Then after returning home at Tokyo I plugged the charger in it to recharge it, but it didn’t turn on even if I pressed the end (red)…
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Ｂｌａｃｋｂｅｒｒｙ Ｂｏｌｄとうとう買ったぞ！
今さらという感もしないでもないですが、ボーナスが出たので買っちゃいました。何もオプションも縛りもつけず、７３０００円定価一括払い。
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I’ve got Blackberry Bold!
Maybe it’s a bit late to be excited to have Blackberry Bold now, but anyway I’ve got one because I had a bonus this week. I ordered it online and this morning a courier delivered it to my house. These are a cradle, a charger, USB cables and screen protectors I ordered from Hong Kong…