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  NEC will soon reveal one of world’s thinnest Android phone. The MEDIAS N-04C is rumored to be announced with NTT DoCoMo this Friday and will have a girth of just 7.7mm. Despite the thin form factor, N-04C will boast a 4-inch display (unconfirmed if AMOLED or TFT), Android 2.2 OS, 1Seg TV tuner, NFC [...]

  Here’s some bad news for our Japanese readers if you’re planning to use Nikon’s Picturetown 3D service. Nikon has announced that its service which was due in late January has been rescheduled to launch by end of March. Nikon says the reason for the delay is due to some “circumstance” related to production of [...]

  Disney is looking to launch an Android phone in the Japanese market. Disney who also runs an MVNO service in Japan will launch a rebadged Sharp Galapagos 003SH on their network. Needless to say, it will have similar hardware specs to Sharp’s version like the 1GHz processor, 3.8-inch glasses-free 3D touchscreen display, 9.6MP CMOS [...]

  NEC from Japan is showing off a unique tablet at the Consumer Electronics Show. It’s a book-style dual screen LT-W tablet that sports dual 7-inch LCDs. NEC says two screens on a tablet serves many purposes like it can be used for reading e-books, using it as laptop with virtual QWERTY or use two [...]

  Panasonic has confirmed to Reuters that they’ll be jumping in the Android bandwagon from next year. Japan will be the first country to receive it whereas other markets will get it from 2012. The Japanese phone maker acknowledged that although they’re late to the party, Panasonic can distinguish their products by bringing some sort [...]

  It’s no secret that Japanese always have the coolest phones. While we devour ourselves with a 12MP phone with Xenon flash, Japanese consumers will enjoy the power of optical zoom in addition to the camera. NTT DOCOMO today announced a plethora of phones (28 to be exact) but the two phones that will make [...]

  Nikon has announced a new service especially for Japanese consumers. The my Picturetown 3D is scheduled to go live in early December and will allow users to convert their 2D images to 3D. These converted images can then be viewed on a dedicated 3D digital photo frame – NF-300i. The NF-300i is an Android [...]

  At the outset of the year’s biggest holiday season, Sony has announced a price cut to its latest handheld gaming console. Starting this month, the PSPgo console in the United States and Japan will sell for $199 and 16,800 yen from $249 and 26,800 yen respectively. For the uninitiated, PSPgo adopts a slider form [...]

  KDDI today unveiled a barrage of phones under its 2010 Winter collection and amongst all, the X-Ray phone seemed to be the most appealing. The phone has been designed by Tokujin Yoshioka and sports a transparent body, thus allowing consumers to see the phone’s innards. Needless to say, this Japanese clamshell device packs some [...]

  Japanese operator, KDDI has added a new Samsung tablet in its portfolio and surprisingly, it’s not the same as Galaxy Tab. The SMT-i9100 looks different and features some different specs. It runs the same Android 2.2 OS with a 7-inch WSVGA (1024×600) screen, 512MB RAM but has an Ocean Observation UI instead of TouchWiz, [...]

  Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. is turning 25 this month and to commemorate its special place in our gaming lives, Nintendo has announced a Wii Super Mario Bros. Edition in Red color. In addition to the new color, the console will also include a Wii Remote Plus controller that integrates Motion Plus and a copy [...]

  Panasonic delivered its promise today as they showed their 13.2MP snapper at the ongoing CEATEC expo. The phone was showcased at NTT DOCOMO’s booth and was unfortunately shielded with glass that didn’t allow anyone to try out the phone’s photographic ability. However, we do know that the slider phone weighs 146 grams and features [...]

  Sharp today unveiled IS03, an Android device for the Japanese market. The phone just like other Japanese phones, is packed with features but it’s the inclusion of a 3.5-inch display that makes it special. The display supports resolution of 960×640 pixels, which is the same as Apple’s iPhone 4. As for other features, the [...]

  At the ongoing CEATEC expo in Japan, Toshiba has unveiled a new LCD TV series that can display 3D content without the need to wear special glasses. The “Glasses-less” 3D REGZA GL1 Series consists of a 20-inch and 12-inch model that creates nine parallax images to create a 3D image. These parallax images are [...]

  We do know that Samsung is working to support the WiMAX 2 standard and now at the CEATEC in Japan, they’ll demonstrate the WiMAX 2 trial system with UQ Communications. The new mobile WiMAX standard is based on IEEE 802.16m that enables more faster, efficient data communication and is compatible with already deployed Mobile [...]