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Sony unveiled the first members of their 2012 handset lineup back at CES, emphasizing the Xperia Ion for AT&T and its international brother the Xperia S. In The phone will be released with a set of features catering to the needs of Japanese mobile users as the Xperia NX, which has been announced for a February 24th launch on NTT DoCoMo .
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It appears Disney’s mobile efforts in Japan are going pretty well , and with the help of carrier NTT DoCoMo they’re expanding under the joint “Disney Mobile on DoCoMo” brand name. The partnership is kicking off with two new Android-powered handsets launching over the next couple of months that pack in access to exclusive content from Disney like full-length animations, games, wallpapers and more.
While we can chide the Japanese for a number of zany practices, there is no denying that some pretty great tech resides within the borders of The Land of the Rising Sun. Before handsets with glasses-free 3D screens reached the US they were commonplace in Japan, same goes for fully waterproof smartphones and tablets.
Those NEC artisans have been at it again, shaving even more from its smartphone profiles. It’s arrived at the Medias ES N-05D, which measures in at a ridiculous 6.7mm, and making the Droid Razr choke on its salad in the process.
The folks at NEC, in partnership with their main carrier partner NTT DoCoMo (Japan) have announced another good looking Android with another weird name. It’s the MEDIAS ES N-05D and it’s as thing as any phone will be – 6.7mm thin.
NEC did it again: about 11 months after unveiling the world’s slimmest smartphone at that time, the company is ready to release another super-thin Android phone with a set of impressive specs (via Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo ). Dubbed MEDIAS ES N-05D [JP], the handset will hit Japanese stores in February or March this year.
After releasing a revised financial forecast for FY 2011 that predicts an annual $1.3 billion loss, its third in the last four years, NEC announced it will cut around 10,000 jobs. Bloomberg Businessweek reports President Nobuhiro Endo announced the cuts, revealing most of the cuts will come from the company’s mobile-phone handset business, with 7,000 of them expected to be in Japan.
Android adoption is growing rapidly in Japan, with local handset manufacturers doing everything they can in order to meet the demands of customers in all segments of the population. One particularly attractive target group seems to be women, given how many Japanese companies say they design Android phones specifically for female users.
Grab a bowl of salt and start pinching, folks. A sales report for Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications India is floating around the internet that’s purportedly packing a list of 2012′s planned handsets along with suggested pricing.