Posts Tagged ‘Japan’

Amazon to Become an MVNO in Japan!?

May 28th, 2012 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

According to rumours, Amazon is planning to launch as an MVNO in the land of the rising sun, Japan. If rumours are right, it will start offering flat-fee 500MB pre-paid SIMcards to Japanese consumers.

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NGP To Face Delays

April 5th, 2011 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PSP Minis | No Comments »

Sony Computer Entertainment America has announced that the damage to factories in the north and to factories of suppliers, the production of the NGP will be suffering. This will have an effect on the release.

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PSP Best Sold Console in Japan

December 30th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: PSP Minis | No Comments »

While all console sales in Japan have been in decline, one little piece of machinery managed to grow it’s market; the PSP. It managed to outsell all competitors (though we are not sure the iPhone was counted)

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Namco Banda Moves Development Back to Japan

December 16th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Namco Bandai has announced that it will be moving all game development back to Japan. The company is dissatisfied with the results of development studios outside of Japan.

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Sharp Introduces Retina-Like Display for Android

October 4th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

Sharp gives Fragmentation another push as the company introduces a mobile phone with a retina display like screen inside. The smartphone will carry a 960×480 display within a 3.5” diameter.

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Nintendo 3DS Lands in 2011

September 29th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: DSiWare | 1 Comment »

Nintendo finally announced the releasedate for the Nintendo 3DS. The 3D console is expected to launch in Japan on February 26th while Europe will have to wait until sometime in March.

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Apple Announces International iPad Launch

May 9th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: iOS | No Comments »

The long expected international launch of the iPad is about to happen as Apple sent out an official press release stating it will be launching in nine more countries on May 28th.

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Japan Builds National Mobile App Platform

April 26th, 2010 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Linux, Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

Six mobile companies in Japan have announced to start developing a national platform for mobile application and game development which should go live in 2012.

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Paid Android Apps for Japan

October 27th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: AndroidOS | No Comments »

One of the bigger gaming markets has opened up for commercial Android developers as Google has started to process payments for the Japanese Android Market.

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Experts on Operators and Their App Stores

May 12th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

Last week, Opinions in Mobile posted an interesting question toward their expert panel; Do you think operators will fight back in APPSTORES and bring a competing proposition, what is your view on them succeeding?