Folks whose appetites aren't quite satiated by the video from the Wireless Japan 2012 show can also check the official Japanese promo in all its cake-filled, cheesy glory after the break.
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There are reports that NTT Docomo, the biggest wireless carrier in Japan, will support Tizen.
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OPTiM's Optimal Remote service, used by over 12 million, also helps Japan-based wireless providers remote operate customer phones to resolve IT issues.
Observers expect the figure to be even higher in Europe and Japan, where wireless Internet services have been widely available for some time.
No one is surfing this giant wave like Yasumitsu Shigeta, 34-year-old president of Hikari Tsushin, Japan's hottest wireless phone vendor.
But the development is more than just a setback for Japan's top wireless carrier, NTT DoCoMo, which had reportedly been in talks with Apple to sell the iPhone.
Digit Wireless has also developed a version for Japan that allows the keyboard to represent the 120 characters of the country's languages.
Softbank said Wednesday that its wireless service will sell Apple 's iPhone in Japan later this year.
U.S. carriers, however, have had the benefit of observing the tactics employed by their counterparts in Europe and Japan, which were nearly outflanked by wireless spam.
Hutchison has teamed up with Japan's NTT DoCoMo to roll out wireless data communications.
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The Internet communications provider works with Verizon Wireless in the U.S., KDDI in Japan and Telus in Canada.
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Japan is the world's second largest wireless market after the United States, with 58 million mobile phone users by the end of last year.
He also is talking with Comcast's Internet-access service, Yahoo Japan, Microsoft's MSNonline service and wireless carriers about distributing the RipeTVformat to an international audience that, he insists, could include 300million homes and cell phones by 2006.
DoCoMo has proved this, but I would be very surprised if the world outside Japan suddenly decided to give DoCoMo a technological monopoly on wireless Internet access.
The company also holds stakes in Asian telecommunications companies planning to deliver broadband and wireless net access, among them a joint venture with NTTDoCoMo in Japan and Korea's Thrunet.
On Monday, after a four-month delay, Japan's NTT DoCoMo is rolling out the next generation of its wireless service.
The linkage is blurred, but I suspect that a titan like No. 34 China Mobile, the mainland's top wireless provider, now with 600 million customers, is also going to feel reverberations from Japan.
Third, the manufacturers designed products around home-grown technical standards and special features that are not used elsewhere. (Most foreign visitors to Japan grumble upon discovering that their phones are incompatible with the country's wireless networks.) So the Japanese makers can only build phones tailored to the overseas market at a high cost and lower margins, making it an unattractive business to enter.
This year's CES has seen no shortage of wireless speakers of all shapes and sizes, but none quite like these options that JVC Kenwood has introduced in Japan.
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Mr Hondou said the findings, originally published in the Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, were worrying in light of the growth in the number of people with WAP phones and other wireless electronic devices.
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