Softbank: Apple iPhone 3G launches at 7am on Friday in Japan

“Japanese consumers will be among the first in the world to get their hands on the new 3G version of the iPhone when it goes on sale on Friday,” Martyn Williams reports for IDG News Service.

“Softbank, the carrier that will launch the phone in Japan, will open its store in the heart of the fashionable Harajuku district at 7 a.m. (10 p.m. GMT Thursday) to customers wishing to buy the phone. Other Softbank stores and major retailers will offer the phone from noon, the carrier said in a statement,” Williams reports.

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  1. Muffin Man . . . I, too, thought it was only 22 countries or so that were to come on line this weekend. The rest are scheduled for “later this year” . . . at least that’s what I understand to be the case.

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