According to recent reports coming from Tokyo-based research company Impress R&D, the iPhone now holds a commanding 46.1% of the mobile smartphone market share in Japan. More specifically, 24.6% of this come from the iPhone 3G while the other 21.5% is thanks to the 3GS model. This means the iPhone it is beating out both the Android and the Blackberry in this market.

Although Japan has legally had the iPhone for only about a month, their carrier, Softbank, is already cutting the prices on their data plans. Softbank’s site has the number in yen, so I will translate for you. The iPhone 3G data rates were currently at ¥7,280, or $67.47/month, but they have now been reduced all more »

Apple is doing pretty good in the European and American market, but what about the millions and millions potential customers in Asian countries like Japan and Korea. NTT DoCoMo Inc, isn’t a household name here in North America, but they are the leading mobile service provider and may be the carrier of the iPhone in more »

Japan is a fairly advanced nation, by modern standards. When you consider that the average Japanese teen can do things like view comics, catch live TV, pay bills and even use the GPS system right from their mobile phones, it should come as a surprise that some of them are still looking forward to the more »