iPhone 3G Goes Corporate With Japanese Sign Up
The Japanese arm of management consultancy firm BearingPoint has made history, by being the first company to sign up for the iPhone 3G.
That have placed an order of 1,000 handsets from Japanese carrier Softbank, with their business analysts and workers to then use them for work across the nation.
That being said, Bearing Point is not a Japanese firm, merely a US company pitching big business abroad. Could staff out there just not get the hang of local kanji-filled Tamagotchi phones?
Nevertheless, this marks an important shift in Japanese sentiment as the smartphone (in the conventional sense) has been a tough sell in the country, due to relying on very insular technological conventions regarding mobile phones. Preferring to stick with home grown devices, business focused devices, including those sporting Windows Mobile, have been largely overlooked.
With the first 3G service for the BlackBerry launching last year and high consumer interest prior to the iPhone 3G going on sale in July, it looks like opinions might be changing. iPhone sales have not been to maintain their high initial sales, but could the future be bright for high tech exports to the land of the rising sun?
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