Jerome Sadou has just posted a brief article about the adventure that was buying a Not free iPhone in Japan. In his blogpost Jerome does the maths for the different price plans, and also talks …

Softbank today confirmed for iPhoningJapan that the new discounted unlimited iPhone data plan (4,410JPY down from the current 5,985JPY) will be made available to existing iPhone users – from April 1st 2009.
There will be no …

Softbank have today announced new price plans for the iPhone 3G.
iPhone for Everybody is due to come into effect on the 1st March 2009, meaning that you can now pick up an 8GB iPhone for …

KDDI have just announced that emails sent from AU handsets to @i.softbank.jp email addresses will now be automatically formatted so as to be readable by iPhones.
For those of us that don’t use the Softbank mail address (preferring, …

Softbank have announced that eMoji can now be sent and received to / from Willcom and eMobile handsets, in addition to those branded Softbank / Disney.
Whilst this news doesn’t really mean anything as only 3 …

Apple’s announcement that iTunes music can now be downloaded direct to the iPhone over the 3G network has seen a lot of excited fingers jumping up and down on computer keyboards around the world.
So exciting …

Japanese mobile phone providers have not been known for their support for non-Japanese speaking customers. However, the last year has seen improvements, with all major carriers now providing English brochures detailing price plans.
Largely as a …

As reported this evening on Macotakara, the Apple iPhone 1Seg TV Tuner and battery are now available from Softbank outlets here in Japan priced at 9,840 yen (US$109).

As far as the TV function goes, the …

I got my iPhone 3G about four hours after arriving in Japan. Being gadget boy, I’d wanted it since launch day, but it would have been a bit daft to get it on a two …