Over in Japan Android is spreading and now Japan’s second largest carrier, KDDI au has announced five new Android based smartphones for the local market, the most interesting of which is a candy-bar Android 2.3 Gingerbread handset with a heavily customised user interface, and the handset is called the INFOBAR C01. According to the guys…
Posts tagged as:
Japan
Yes folks the raging battle to ban each others devices between Apple and Samsung around the globe continues, this time with news that old Sammy has now filed suits in both Australia and Japan to get Apple’s latest iOS smartphone, the iPhone 4S banned from being sold. According to an article over on Bloomberg , along with filing to ban the iPhone 4S, Samsung is also seeking an injunction against the sales of the iPhone 4 and Apple iPad 2 in Japan and has cited 3 telecommunications technologies in the Aussie suit and in Japan cites 1 telecommunication and 3 user interface patents. No doubt if you have been following this lengthy patent dispute between the two mobile space giants you will know that last week Apple was successful in obtaining a sales block of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia
It may be a bit of a stretch to call Satoshi Ishii the Michael Phelps of Japan, but not by much. His victory in the heavyweight judo competition at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing was easily the defining moment of the games for his countrymen and was considered by most media outlets the #1 highlight of the year in all of sports.