Well, finally the first carrier of the much anticipated iPhone has been announced in Japan. Until now, the iPhone has only been officially sold in six counties: the US, UK, Ireland, Germany, France and Austria.
Come launch day, it will be available in some 50 countries. A US analyst, Gene Munster of PiperJaffrey , made the point last month that the iPhone will go from a "total addressable market" of about 150 million subscribers to almost 600 million.
Also rumor has it that the iPhone 2 will have:
- 3G
- GPS
- 2 x memory (16GB and 32GB)
- 22 percent thinner
- Better battery life
The Phone 2.0, the firmware upgrade unveiled in March also indicates that the 3G phone will let iPhone users add third-party applications to their devices and allow the phones to be used with corporate email systems. This would make the phone more appealing to business users as an alternative to the BlackBerry.
The tipster says Apple will subsidize the iPhone’s price to better compete with RIM’s Blackberry. The London Times is reporting the same thing — that the iPhone will cost about $200 in the UK when it goes on sale in July.
For the iPhone to be a success in Japan, it will also need a place for a phone strap to hang all sorts of junk off it, support for emoji's, a really crap web browser the only works with CHTML and a really crappy hard to use keyboard that makes it a 10 button operation to edit text and input a space…oh and an embedded IC chip so you can pay for a taxi and train once you have drunk all your money and lost one of your shoes…. then it will rock in Japan
Good news is that NTT DoCoMo is still pursuing the rights to sell the iPhone also… nothing like a bit of competition…
2 Comments
Just buy the iPhone killers…I heard they’re better
-Mike
Having used one a few times over the last week or so i am even more excited than i was before about getting one.
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