{"id":568960,"date":"2010-05-18T10:20:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T14:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=158678"},"modified":"2010-05-18T10:20:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T14:20:31","slug":"photo-gallery-japan%e2%80%99s-softbank-shows-13-twitter-powered-cell-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/568960","title":{"rendered":"Photo gallery: Japan\u2019s SoftBank shows 13 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

Photo gallery of all the 13 new Twitter-powered cell phones over at MobileCrunch<\/a>.<\/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-568960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568960","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=568960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}