“iSHARE Inc has announced the results of its opinion survey on smartphones. As several smartphones were recently announced in Japan, the company conducted research on handset preferences and other items,” Yukiko Kanoh reports for Nikkei Electronics.
“When the company asked which model they were ‘interested in’ among new smartphones to be released in the near future and those already debuted (multiple answers allowed), the most 57.9% of all respondents named the ‘iPhone,’ which will be released from SoftBank Mobile Corp.,” Kanoh reports.
“The ‘Willcom D4‘ to be released from Willcom Inc came next at 35.8%, followed by the ‘Willcom 03’ to be released from Willcom at 33.1%, Emobile Ltd’s ‘EMONSTER’ at 18.0% and NTT DOCOMO Inc’s ‘HT1100’ at 8.8%,” Kanoh reports.
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[Attribution: MacNN. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: Unsurprisingly, it looks like surveys conducted after Apple’s iPhone 3G unveiling do not match those that were conducted before.
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Do they get Rush in Japan?
Is Scott still in Japan? What does he think? (Hai!)
What’s a Wilcom D4?
Sharp-Wilcom D4 UMPC:
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/04/25/sharpwilcoms-minuscu.html
What? I thought something like only 11% of Japanese were interested in the iPhone. You mean to tell me that someone misrepresented data from a survey to make their own point? Never!
Looks suspiciously like the Wizard/Willard/Tip Calculator from Seinfeld.
Oh and I wouldn’t be surprised if these numbers were actually pulled from the SAME survey!
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I live in Tokyo and went in to Softbank June 27 to check on how to get an iPhone. At the Ikebukuro office they said I could sign on to the waiting list and took my name and phone number. They said I was about 100th on their list. So I went to a smaller office near my house, and they said I was 30th on their list. Both places said they have no idea how many they will get on the 11th, and expect I will have to wait a while. You have to sign up for basic service, a phone charge over 24 months to which a discount is applied, and an unlimited data charge. They estimate the monthly charge for all that will be about 9,000 yen (about $86). Actually I can’t see how this thing doesn’t set the Japanese mobile phone industry on fire. They have a myriad of phones and services here and this thing blows the doors off of all of them.
@ iWill
Yup, still here.
Don’t really have a feel on this. I’m pretty much fretting whether or not Scott will get one. I KNOW I want one.
I’ve been counting the days. My wife thinks I’m crazy. Both for the counting, constant talking about the iPhone and the price of the plan.
MacDailyNews Note for the previous round: We really couldn’t find out much information about what iSHARE even is, much less what their methodology was for the survey.
For this round: And we couldn’t care less.
What?! No Blackberry Bold?! No HTC Diamond?! No Samsung Instinct?!
“Looks suspiciously like the Wizard/Willard/Tip Calculator from Seinfeld.”
LOL! Nice.
I live in Tokyo as well. Wish the 16GB was being released on the 11th. July 30th is too far away.
91%…yeah right!
Tried softbank for the waiting list today, every shop I called said several things:
1. Sorry, no waiting list
2. We have no idea how many we will get
3. We don’t know if we will even get any on the 11th.
Yeah, I went to a Softbank in Shibuya today and they don’t have any info…although the girl seemed like she knew something but just couldn’t say. 🙁 Oh well, I’m gonna get one of these bad boys!