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Japanese smartphone market booms - with strong Windows Mobile presence - new report indicates July 03, 2007 [General] | By Edward J. R. Unlike Windows Mobile, BlackBery and LinuxOS in most cases cannot run 3rd party native applications - only managed code (Java) - but still they are being considered by research company that published this report about Japanese smartphone market - as "smartphones"... but even in this broader sense Windows Mobile has strong position in Japanese market - that is one of the biggest and most sophisticated mobile phone markets in the world. In December 2006, Willcom, a Japanese operator, introduced W-ZER03 series smartphones. In 2006, NTT DoCoMo and SoftBank started to introduce Windows Mobile-powered smartphones supplied from HTC, a Taiwan-based device manufacturer. HTC established its branch in Japan in April, 2006 and now seems to get ready to expand its presence in Japan. [...] smartphone refers to a device that is equipped with Symbian UIQ, Nokia S60/S80, Windows Mobile, Palm, Linux OS and BlackBerry. [...] The results show that the market size is expected to grow every year by 78.6% (on the average) to reach 6 million units, occupying 13% of the total mobile handset market. To learn more about this report click here (PDF file) or here (web site of this research company).  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)
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