From Htcyou: Japan’s largest carrier, NTT Docomo, has just revealed that pre-orders for the Sony Ericsson Xperia NX, Japan’s version of the Xperia S, will be starting on February 10th! More »

From Htcyou: NEC has recently unveiled its new super-thin Android phone MEDIAS ES N-05 D with only 6.7mm thickness. Coming via Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo, the phone will also come with some impressive specs, such as Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread, waterproof body, as well as a 4.3-inch LCD with 720×1280 resolution. More »

From Htcyou: Japan’s second largest cellphone carrier KDDI is now displaying advertisements on Android notification bar. The ads come from ‘au one Market,’ an official app by KDDI that is an alternative to Google’s Android Market. After updating the app, user will be notified that au one Market remains resident even when they do not use the app and the notification bar will be used for information about good deals. More »

From Ziggytek: Even with the free Wi-Fi at restaurants and cafes and all that we have here in North America, looks like Japan isn’t there yet. Japanese drinks giant Asahi has recently came up with an idea to solve that problem: Vending machines with free Wi-Fi. Say what? More »

From Htcyou: Sharp has not really been popular in the US and Europe but it is in Japan. The company will release Android like phone, the AQUOS PHONE IS14SH. More »

From Girlybubble:

Ever since phones and iPods and computers took over our lives, it’s hard to drags ourselves away from those things ever again. More »

From Htcyou: Japan residents have been lucky enough to be the sole recipients of Panasonic’s line of smartphones for many years. Though it seems like that may soon change. More »

From Htcyou: One of the latest trends in Japan right now is waterproof devices. And for Fujitsu, one of the big brands over there, that’s exactly what they focused their new 10-inch Arrows Tab 2 (F-01D) tablet to do. More »

From Htcyou: One of the most annoying things about having gadgets, smartphones, tablets, pretty much any media device (even the one you’re using now) is having to deal with screen glare. No matter what you do, it always seems to make an appearance right when you don’t want it to. But thanks to the Nippon Electric Glass Co Ltd and their glare-free glass, it may soon be a problem that we never have to deal with again. More »

From Ziggytek: Around 1.1 billion yen ($14 million) is being invested on a five year project in the creation of rescue robots to be functions in natural disaster situations by Japan. This follows the tragic earthquake Japan had experienced in March. More »