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Wireless Japan 2003 exhibition (Tokyo, July 16-18, 2003)
Concept Phones AU/KDDI Design Series Concept Phones “talby” design by Marc Newson, commercial introduction: December 2004 The following image shows the “talby” series introduced in December 2004. The...
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Wireless Japan 2004 exhibition (Tokyo, July 21-23, 2004)
Every year the Wireless Japan sets global trends in wireless communications and mobile phones. Mobile phone industry professionals cannot afford to miss this trend setting show. It is here that...
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KDDI announces "talby" phone
On 13 October 2004, KDDI/AU announced “talby”, the third phone in their “AU design series”. Volume sales start in December 2004. We expect that “talby” will be similarly successful as “infobar” one...
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PENCK (KDDI-AU Designer Series)
Today, February 18, KDDI-AU came out with PENCK – the latest model in the Designer Series: Data rate = 2.4 MbpsMusic = Chaku-Uta-Full, stereo speakersCamera = 1.24 Megapixel, incl QR barcode readerGPS...
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"au design project": INFOBAR-2 by Fukawasa Naoto
KDDI is unique among mobile operators in creating value from design for phones with the “au design project”. Creating value for which consumers are willing to pay premium prices is a key to success in...
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"au design project 2006": TRILOGY
KDDI is unique among mobile operators in creating value from design for phones with the “au design project”. Creating value for which consumers are willing to pay premium prices is a key to success in...
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Mobile subscriptions grow by 5 million in Japan during 2006
Japan’s mobile subscriber numbers grew by about 5 million in 2006. Because of the much higher ARPU, Japan’s mobile market again grew by a couple of Finlands during 2006. A growing number of people have...
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iida – a new brand for KDDI’s design series
KDDI created a new brand: “iida” for the long running best selling AU design series mobile phones. KDDI introduced some of the most recent iida design series models at the KDDI Designing Center. In...
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Growth in Japan: the SoftBank group
Mobile subscription data released last week show, that the SoftBank group continues to gain market share while incumbent NTT-docomo continues to lose market share – an upward trend for SoftBank, and a...
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Yahoo!-keitai replaces Vodafone-Live!
SoftBank replaced Vodafone-Live! by Yahoo!-Keitai. SoftBank phones have a “Y!”-button which links to Yahoo!-keitai. Yahoo-Keitai! offers a list of official sites, new services (e.g. a new communicator...
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Wireless Japan 2002 exhibition (July 17-19, 2002) in Tokyo
The annual Wireless-Japan exhibition highlights the trends of mobile communications in Japan. At Wireless-Japan 2002 KDDI started setting the trend of concept phones. KDDI/AU “Design Project:” Design...
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KDDI/AU has 80% of users on 3G
80% of KDDI/AU users are now converted to 3G, and KDDI/AU does not sell any 2G phones any more: only 3G and 3.5G (2.4Mbps data download). Conversion to 3G in Japan: AU leads, DoCoMo and Vodafone...
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Added new sections on: Frequency spectrum allocations and new government policies New statistics, e.g. added comparison between Japanese and European data charges for 3G New section about Chaku-Uta...
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Chaku-uta-full: 3 million downloads
KDDI/AU reports 3 million Chaku-uta-full (full song) downloads since it’s start on November 19, 2004: KDDI sells approximately as many chaku-uta music clips as iTunes sells music globally demonstrating...
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5 Million Chaku-Uta-Full downloads
KDDI/AU announced that 5 Millions Chaku-Uta-Full songs have been downloaded until April 3, 2005. KDDI/AU chaku-uta and chaku-uta-full music downloads vs iTunes global downloads Download our 230 page...
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