The coming invasion of awesome Japanese cell phones

If you are a phone geek, you know Japan’s cellphones are the bee’s knees. Way ahead of the phones we use in the US and Europe, Japan leads the way in innovation, yet can’t seem to capitalize on those advantages. The problem: advanced hardware.

What makes hardware the problem? Software. In Japan, software on phones is rather clunky and even called, “primitive” by the New York Times. Unlike the iPhone, which is rather bland hardware fused with supreme software, Japan’s phones are just the opposite: supreme hardware fused to bland software.