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Remember that sexy Toshiba TG01 Windows Mobile 6.5 handset that has specs meaner than a hungry Megalodon shark? Well sadly for most of us it is heading for Japan.
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Japan's biggest telco NTT DoCoMo and electronics maker Fujitsu has announced a special handset for the Taiwanese market which allows users to view and input the traditional Chinese characters and enabling them to access FET's i-mode mobile Internet service in their local language.
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Japan telco NTT docomo has launched a new Symbian-powered addition to its PRIME handset series, the SD-03A from Sharp.
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Well I'll be damned, is it me, or is this the weirdest Sony Ericsson Walkman phone you have ever laid eyes on? The females are gonna dig this.
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Japan's biggest mobile telco NTT DoCoMo today announced that the scheduled launch in Japan of the Nokia E71 smartphone has been cancelled, citing Nokia's decision to again withdraw from the Japanese market.
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ACCESS today announced that it will start today a widget service for new smartphone models offered by NTT DoCoMo, Japan's biggest telco.
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Nokia is leaving Japan, one of the world's biggest cellular markets. But the company said it will continue to sell its high-end Vertu line there.
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About 40 million Symbian-powered phones have been shipped in Japan for the first nine months of 2008 alone, with shipments for the first half of 2008 up by heathy 12.5 percent compared to the same period last year.
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Nokia hopes to launch its own mobile phone service in Japan next spring, after signing a deal with NTT DoCoMo as a "virtual network operator".
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NTT DoCoMo of Japan and South Korea's KTF will work together towards a new smartphone sporting Google's Android platform, said a Reuters report citing a Japanese newspaper.
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