Asiajin is reporting that Softbank Mobile has decided to release a 1-seg television tuner for the iPhone in Japan. According to the post, the 80 gram external device will hit the market sometime in mid-December and will double as a battery lifetime extender. Apparently a retail price has not yet been announced.
As Asiajin points […]

Google released its Chrome browser three days ago, though we don’t have a Mac version yet (and there’s no word on when that may come). Regardless, I gave it a whirl on my Windows machines after reading what Google’s Sundar Pichai and Linus Upson had to say about the browser over on the Google blog. […]

According to this morning’s Nikkei, customers are actually standing in line outside of Softbank’s Harajuku location in Tokyo. Of course, they’re waiting for the new iPhone 3G to go on sale, which it will at 7am Friday.
In what looks like a clever marketing/PR move, the Harajuku location will be putting the iPhone on sale five […]

This afternoon, Softbank announced on its website that it has signed a deal with Apple to bring the iPhone to Japan. Although there were few details, the press release said that it will be released later this year.
Given that Softbank only sells 3G models, it looks like Apple is going to be releasing a 3G […]