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Business newspaper, Nikkei is reporting that DoCoMo and KTF are readying an Android powered phone to cater to the customers in Japan and South Korea. According to them, DoCoMo and KTF have jointly started purchasing phones in order to maximize the economies of scale.
DoCoMo’s keeping mum on the news but one confirmation has come [...]

 
Fujitsu Japan today announced a new line of 2.5-inch drives. The new MBD2 RC and MBE2 RC series boast a speed of 10,025 and 15,000 RPM and Fujitsu claims that these drives are 60% faster than the current set of 2.5-inch drives. The drives use perpendicular magnetic recording, support 6GB/s SAS (Serial-attached SCSI) that allows [...]

 
Put Live TV support in phones and they’ll sell like hot cakes. At least this is the case in some Asian countries and who knows better than Samsung and LG who have the largest portfolio of phones integrated with DMB.
Well, now Japan’s SoftBank, the official carrier of iPhone 3G have also come up with a [...]

 
Renoir and Pixon please make way for the new heavyweight champion coming from the land of rising sun. Casio, the maker of the phone refrains from giving any marketing friendly name but simply christens it as W63CA Exilim phone. The clamshell phone uses Casio’s ‘Exilim engine for Mobile’ and packs a lot of photography features [...]

 
While a basic consumer in India is still struggling to get over 2Mbps, Japanese residents will soon be able to upload and download at a speed of up to 1Gbps. This is totally insane and the insanity will be provided by a Japanese company, KDDI Corp. The major beneficiaries of this service will be the [...]

 
Fujifilm Japan has claimed a world’s first by creating a digital camera capable of converting a regular picture to a 3D image on the go. The camera, Fujifilm FinePix Real 3D System is still in its prototype stage and is expected to be commercially available somewhere in next year. The camera actually has two lenses [...]

 
Here is an example of how weird this world is. From outside, The Kanda-Myojin Shinto shrine in Tokyo looks like another Japanese temple. But the real picture unveils as you visit the temple. The devotees coming to the temple bring their gadgets, computers, laptops to seek blessings from the priest to protect their beloved electronic [...]

 
Music playback on mobile phones and other portable devices require a lot of CPU power which in turn drains the battery much faster than usual. OKI from Japan have found a solution to this by developing a headphone amplifier LSI dubbed as ML2650. This miniature chip embeds an efficient D-class amplifier equipped with a 64KB [...]

 
Sony Computer Entertainment will bring the updated PSP 3000 to its homeland on October 16. PSP equipped with advanced LCD features will be selling for Yen 19,800 ($182). Sony also plans to launch a value pack along with it which will have the PSP bundle 4GB Memory Stick PRO Duo, an original PSP pouch, a [...]

 
UPDATE: The price cut is official. 60GB Xbox 360 will cost Yen 29,800 ($270) while the Elite version will sell at Yen 39,800 ($370).
Japanese business newspaper, Nikkei is reporting that Microsoft will cut Xbox 360 prices in Japan. Expected anytime today, the new price for the Arcade version will be almost 29% down to Yen [...]