Apple to introduce iPhone in Japan by the end of 2008?
By Dusan Belic on Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 at 3:25 AM PST In Apple, Devices, Rumors, iPhone, iPhone OS
Our Japanese readers may have the world’s coolest and most advanced handsets at their disposal, but for an iPhone they will have to wait for at least a year. According to the unnamed Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) employee, Jobs&Co will release their flagship product across the Pacific by the end of next year. Somehow that makes sense, as we all know how market in Japan is demanding when it comes to the cellphones — who wouldn’t with all those carriers releasing devices we could only dream of here. Plus, Japanese alphabet doesn’t seem exactly as the easiest thing to add on iPhone’s touchscreen. Still, I’ve no doubt that once released in the Land of the rising Sun, iPhone will find its buyers there — just like they’ve found it in the States. You guessed correctly — we’ll watch this space carefully and keep you folks well informed.
[Via: uberphones]
I can only imagine that people are waiting with anticipation for the new phones here in Asia. A pirated version of the phone has already surfaced in many parts of the east.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_8wuVEYMZ8
I can’t wait to use the real version.
And the Japanese will laugh their collective asses off at this “featureless” phone.
Jobs will have to slap a barcode reader, better camera, 3G, etc. into it before anyone in Japan buys one to actually use as a phone.
The true Jesus phone is still the Nokia N95.