Tag: cell phone
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Japan’s mobile environment today
Sorry for not updating the blog for a long time. These days I’m hanging out on Facebook and Twitter, rather than writing blog entries. Please visit my Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/masayuki.kawagishi or follow @_Yuki_K_ on Twitter 😉 I see that the world of mobile phones is rapidly changing for years. Nokia, one of the dominant…
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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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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…
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Softbank announces Nokia N82 and E71 to be released in Japan
Softbank has announced today that 16 types of its "2008 winter model" cell phones will be released this winter. Among them, Nokia N82 will be on sale in the middle of this November and Nokia E71 in this December. Nokia N82 is a tiny, light cell phone with a 5 Megapixels of digital camera where…
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I got Blackberry! / Blackberryをゲット
日本文が後ろに続きます。 The nearest DoCoMo Shop had informed me that a new Blackberry device (Blackberry 8707h) had arrived, so I got there this Monday and bought it. The handset costed 28,000 Yen. Very reasonable. Setup is very easy. I keep three of my email addresses (including Blackberry-specific one) in this handset. I can catch incoming mails…