Japan may be the home of iPhone

Kantar Japan researched sales share of iOS and Android in eight countries including Japan from June to August this year.

[iPhone v. Android] Which is the recommendation of Japanese who have used both?

78.5 percent of Japanese smartphone users who have used both iOS and Android recommends iPhone when receiving advice from their friends on purchasing a smartphone a research by JustSystems revealed.

Apple's "Siri" will make CD debut

Apple's Siri personificated

The music CD named "Teach us Ms. Siri" featuring Siri, the personal assistant and navigation application for Apple's iOS will be released on December 8th. It included "Hello, Siri-tan" uploaded on video-sharing websites earlier this year and 5 new songs.
*This is not an official project by Apple Inc.


りんご電話のパーソナルアシスタント『しり』がしゃべり、歌う(!!)、りんご愛爆発のキャラクターCDが登場!!　―IOSYS
http://www.iosysos.com/cd/ringo/

Pervasion of Smartphone is 18% in Japan

Sony Ericson "Xperia acro"


The recent research by Nikkei BP Consulting, Inc revealed that pervasion of smartphones reached 18.0% in Japan.
Among the 4,400 respondents, 1,152 or 26.2% said that they have at least one smartphone. Because the respondents were sampled equally from gender and generation, revision was added to the result considering demographics of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and pervasion of mobile phones. As a result, estimated pervasion of smartphones was 18.0% jumped up from last year's 9.5%.
Customer satisfaction to mobile phone carriers is ranked 1:KDDI(au) 2:NTT DOCOMO 3:SoftBank, while satisfaction to smartphone devices and services were ranked 1:SoftBank 2:KDDI(au) 3:NTT DOCOMO. SoftBank(since 2008) and KDDI(since 2011) carries iPhone.


スマートフォンの国内普及率は18.0%、1年で倍増　―nikkei BPnet
http://www.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/news/20120725/317298/?top_f2&rt=nocnt