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February 25, 2008
Just a bit suprised
Wow, wasn't expecting this.
The first mobile carrier in Japan to get HTC's current flagship smartphone is actually going to be EMobile!
Quite a scoop considering how close HTC has been playing with Softbank and Docomo in the past. Then again, I'm sure that handheld sales of the TYTN in Japan were pretty disappointing to the carriers.
What is particularly interesting is that the TYTN II (aka Kaiser, aka ADSP) appears to have been modified with a single band 1.7Ghz cellular modem. This means that it will only work on Japan's EMobile 3G network. I'm kinda hoping that the specs are off and that this is one of the new quadband 3G modems that should be appearing this year.
EMobile has the best urban 3G network in Japan, offering unlimited HSDPA speed for around 50$ a month. About half of the rate on Docomo's FOMA or Softbank 3G's 21Ghz HSDPA networks.
I'm starting to get hopeful that we might see a quadband variant of the HTC Shift that will allow me to use it on EMobile's network.
Posted by Kakyou at February 25, 2008 03:13 PM
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