{"id":568773,"date":"2010-05-18T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=31681"},"modified":"2010-05-18T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T14:03:00","slug":"photo-gallery-japan%e2%80%99s-softbank-shows-13-new-twitter-powered-cell-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/568773","title":{"rendered":"Photo gallery: Japan\u2019s SoftBank shows 13 new, Twitter-powered cell phones"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We’ve shown you the summer cell phone lineup from KDDI (Japan’s No. 2 carrier) yesterday<\/a>. Today, Japan’s third largest carrier, SoftBank Mobile<\/a>, showed its own summer lineup during a special press conference, and all of their 13 new models have one thing in common: they all come with Twitter pre-installed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The buyers of these cell phones will be able to access Twitter either via a pre-installed app or through a pre-installed widget on the homescreen. The background is that SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son<\/a> himself is a huge Twitter fan (he has almost 300,000 followers<\/a>) and believes Japan is set to become Twitter country. And in fact, by some measures it’s already No. 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Twitter CEO Evan Williams, who joined SoftBank’s press conference from San Francisco (via Ustream<\/a>), said he has high hopes in Japan because it’s such a highly advanced mobile nation<\/a> and Twitter is easy to use on cell phones (around 37% of active users use Twitter on their phones<\/a>). The collaboration with SoftBank is a good start: The company boasts 22 million subscribers, and its user base has been growing nicely over the past few years. SoftBank as a whole, one of Asia’s biggest telcos, currently has a market cap of $26 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The widget has been developed by Twitter in the US and will be available starting early next month (another widget that will be pre-installed on the next SoftBank cell phones is made by a third party). SoftBank subscribers with older handsets will be able to download the new Twitter apps and widgets at that point in time, too.<\/p>\n

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And here are all the “Twitter cell phones” SoftBank showed today, along with the main specs (needless to say, they all have many<\/em> more features):<\/p>\n

Sharp mirumo2 944SH<\/strong>
\n(3.2-inch full wide VGA touchscreen (480\u00d7854 resolution), 3-inch memory sub-display, 8MP camera, digital TV tuner, Wi-Fi, waterproof, Bluetooth, microSDHC card slot)<\/p>\n

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Sharp AQUOS SHOT 945SH<\/strong>
\n(3.2-inch full wide VGA display, 12.1MP CCD camera, records video in 720p, digital TV tuner, Wi-Fi, waterproof, Bluetooth, HDMI interface, GSM, two-way stereo microphone)<\/p>\n

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Panasonic 942P<\/strong>
\n(3.1-inch full wide VGA touchscreen, 13.2MP CMOS camera with auto focus, digital TV tuner, Wi-Fi, waterproof, Bluetooth, GSM)<\/p>\n

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Samsung 941SC<\/strong>
\n(3.3-inch AMOLED touchscreen<\/a> with 100,000:1 contrast ratio and 180 degree viewing angle, 8.1MP camera, digital TV tuner, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GSM)<\/p>\n

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Sharp SOLAR HYBRID 842SH<\/strong>
\n(3-inch QVGA screen (240\u00d7400 resolution), lets you make a two-minute call time after 10 minutes of solar charging, waterproof, Bluetooth, microSDHC slot, follows the 936SH from last year<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Sharp 841SH<\/strong>
\n(3-inch QVGA screen, 0.75-inch OLED mini sub-display, 3.2MP CMOS camera, microSDHC slot, waterproof)<\/p>\n

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Samsung AQUA STYLE 840SC<\/strong>
\n(2.8-inch QVGA screen, 3.1MP CMOS camera, digital TV tuner, microSDHC slot, waterproof, GSM)<\/p>\n

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Panasonic 842P<\/strong>
\n(3-inch full wide QVGA screen (240\u00d7427 resolution), 3.2 CMOS camera, 10mm thin body, digital TV tuner, GSM)<\/p>\n

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NEC 840N<\/strong>
\n(2.9-inch full wide QVGA screen, 5.1 CMOS camera, digital TV tuner, microSD slot)<\/p>\n

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NEC 841N<\/strong>
\n(3-inch full wide VGA screen, 3.1MP CMOS camera, 13.9mm thin body, digital TV tuner, microSDHC slot)<\/p>\n

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Sharp 843SH<\/strong>
\n(3-inch QVGA screen, 3.2MP CMOS camera, extra-easy to use, microSDHC slot, waterproof)<\/p>\n

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ZTE 840Z<\/strong>
\n(2.8.inch WQVGA screen, 3.14MP camera, extra-easy to use, microSDHC slot, GSM)<\/p>\n

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Sharp 945SH G<\/strong>
\n(based on the 945SH shown above, special Gundam<\/a> robot version to celebrate the anime’s 30th anniversary, features a number of Gundam-specific contents and comes with a special dock)<\/p>\n

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We’ve shown you the summer cell phone lineup from KDDI (Japan’s No. 2 carrier) yesterday. Today, Japan’s third largest carrier, SoftBank Mobile, showed its own summer lineup during a special press conference, and all of their 13 new models have one thing in common: they all come with Twitter pre-installed. The buyers of these cell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}