Japanese Cell Phones Can’t Escape Island Home

Filed under: Cell Phones , BlackBerry Japan sells some of the most advanced handsets in the world. Sure, the iPhone has a fancy touchscreen, but does it use facial recognition software to unlock it? Can you watch live TV on your BlackBerry Storm? Does the Palm Pre lead a double life as a credit card? For years, the Japanese have been building phones that are years ahead of other nation’s mobiles. Yet companies like NEC, Panasonic, and Sharp (hugely popular in Japan) have had little success in extending their reaches beyond the island nation. Takeshi Natsuno, of Tokyo’s Keio University, told the New York Times that the Japanese cell phone market suffers from Gal

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