Apple Online Store “It seems Japan, the country with the most advanced mobile infrastructure on the globe, has come to embrace the iPhone. According to a survey conducted by market research company GfK’s Japanese subsidiary [JP], the 32GB model of the iPhone 3GS was the most popular phone in Japan last month,” Serkan Toto reports for MobileCrunch.

Here’s the complete breakdown of Japan’s most popular cell phones last month:

1. Apple iPhone 3GS 32 GB
2. Sharp SH-06A
3. Panasonic 830P
4. Sharp SH-05A
5. NEC N-08A
6. Sony Ericsson Walkman Phone Premier3
7. Sharp SH-02A
8. Casio W63CA
9. Apple iPhone 3GS 16 GB
10. Sharp SH001

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MacDailyNews Take: We await the reaction to this news from Wired’s hit-whoring Brian X. Chen with bated breath.

[Attribution: Electronista. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "MacRadDoc" for the heads up.]

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