The end of the Blackberry era hits Japan. In case you haven’t heard, Blackberry is back. While it seems cliché, they are indeed back with a new operating system and hardware. Before the launch of their new system and handsets the trouble equated with the company most certainly spelled demise. While the Z10 is doing ...

The Nexus 10 is official in Japan! When phones and tablets become official and ultimately released, its easy to assume they will make their trip around the world on the scheduled release date. Unfortunately this is far from the case. When a device releases it usually to a specific market first, then it treks into ...

Ever think your kid needs a powerful Android phone or just smart phone in general? Well, if you were living in the fast pace technological world of Japan, your answer could prove to be a simple, yes. Here stateside we like to dumb down the phones we pawn off as child friendly, but it looks ...

Where is HTC? Well if the invitations to their next even are any idea, they are hard at work! HTC is most definitely hard at work; however exactly they are cooking up is still a mystery. The company has recently taken the back burner position to Samsung in the battle of the Droid’s as their ...

It was only last week where leaky details of a new variation of the Optimus G surfaced to the top of the rumor mill and today, the new LG Optimus G Pro becomes official. While LG continues to pump out the Optimus G and its ever famous cousin the Nexus 4 it seems like these ...

  Nowadays, tablets come in all shapes and sizes. Some tablets are disguised as smart phones, while others prove to be perfect in size and shape. Over the course of CES Sony announced their Xperia Z and ZL smart phones to much fan fare. The two handsets are solid new contenders in the smart phone arena ...

For the most part, it’s hard to improve on perfection but cell phone manufacturers do it all the time. Sometimes, they offer up awesome, vast improvements while other attempts are not so graceful. The original LG Optimus G was announced in Korea back in August and slowly made its way into the states via the ...

  Do you remember the Samsung Jitterbug? No? That’s not really surprising. You may have seen an infomercial or two about the phone late night as you watch the tube in a state of hypnagogia. The small flip phone is just one of many different devices made with the elderly in mind. They sport big buttons ...

  The Samsung Galaxy S III was announced in May and released in international markets later that month. In the short months it has been lurking around as a carrier option is has seemingly taken over the world. The Galaxy S III for American markets has been around since June and all markets together sold around ...

Japan’s iPhone 4s will receive the ability to function as mobile payment options through the magic of near field communication (NFC) in February 2011. Before you start clamoring for your own iPhone 4 to do the same, realize that Japanese carrier Softbank is relying on a third-party option to make its iPhone 4s NFC capable. ...

Japan has always been a somewhat different world and NTT DoCoMo’s new advertisement for the Galaxy S is no exception. Darth Vader shows up as the pitchman/metaphor for the Android powered smartphone in more than one advertisement from the carrier. Given the iPhone’s recent success in Japan, NTT has to do something since it lost ...

A couple of weeks ago, Sharp unveiled two Android powered smartphones with a unique feature—they can display 3D images without the views having to wear those funky glasses. Sharp is also building the screens for Nintendo’s upcoming handheld gaming device, the 3DS, which will have the same ability to display three dimension images without 3D ...

Sharp launched two Android powered smartphones—the GALAPAGOS Softbank 003SH and the GALAPAGOS Softbank OO5SH—today in Japan the both of these have 3D screens sans glasses. Screens that can display (or at least make it look like they are) in 3D are the coming wave of the future and Nintendo’s coming 3DS mobile gaming console will ...