SOFTBANK MOBILE announces Fall / Winter 2008 model

SOFTBANK MOBILE announced the Fall / Winter 2008 model today.

In addition to "AQUOS Mobile FULLTOUCH" equipped with the world's largest ultra-high resolution liquid crystal display, "OMNIA" which is regarded as an iPhone killer, "HTC made smartphone" Touch Pro "and" Touch Diamond ", a new PANTONE mobile phone, The first line of mobile handsets such as mobile terminals are available, and it has become an overwhelming contribution.

Also, a new "mobile widget" was offered, and it is said that it will cooperate strongly with mixi, Nico Nico video, Moba gate town etc.

Details are as follows.

2008/10/30 15:56, Add question and answer
AQUOS mobile phone FULLTOUCH (931 SH)


3.8 inch, 1024 × 480 liquid crystal mounted


Width 52 mm


First correspondence to "Mobile widget"


Indeed all


Samsung's iPhone killer "OMNIA" appeared


Actively utilize the touch panel.


Equipped with a 5.15 megapixel camera that supports face recognition and backlight correction.


Touch Diamond and Touch Pro appear as X04HT and X05HT


Comfortable operation with the new sensory interface "Touch FLO 3D"


Adopted Opera 9.5 as browser



Supports predictive conversion and continuous sentence transformation


Full keyboard model "Touch Pro"


Positioning of the four models


Make full-scale widgets available on mobile phones


The first widget provided is like this. There are even widgets of mixi.


Niwango, mixi, "DeNA" deploying Mobagetown, etc. Become an Internet partner


Content provided in Moba gateown widget


Widget of "Nico Nico Douga Mobile" as well. What is this ...?


Japan's largest SNS "mixi" also available for widget


Widget of the world's largest SNS "My Space". Many musicians also participate.


Yahoo! JAPAN also offers widgets. Make all basic services available.


Easy search of peripheral information using location information


Thin type sharp terminal "930SH" equipped with a high sensitivity CCD capable of taking pictures even in dark places, 8 million pixel camera


CASIO is the first entry. 830 CA appeared with "beautiful filming engine" exceeding 5 million pixels.


Dress up mobile 2nd bullet "fanfun.2 (830T)". Includes 13 kinds of inner.


This is "fanfun.petit (831T)" for teenagers with enhanced security function


"830P" which adopted "comfort touch button" easy to see easily


15 colors "NEW PANTONE Mobile (830SH)" appeared. Even for the elderly, "GENT" is easy to use.


Liquid crystal became brilliant


"N82" from NOKIA and "E71" with full keyboard appeared


Premobile "730SC"


A data communication terminal "S01SW" that can also be used as a USB memory when a MicroSD memory card is inserted


This is all models.


"SoftBank Gift" service that can give presents only by e-mail address


Christmas present from "Dad" to SoftBank users. Receivable in 7-Eleven.


New service announcement of "iPhone 3G"


Public wireless LAN "BB Mobile Point" in 3,500 locations nationwide free


It can be used in a wide range of spots such as McDonald's, airport lounge, JR station premises


Applications also appear one after another


Finally a one-seg tuner appeared


You can also charge the iPhone 3G


Compact, lightweight and easy to carry


Also supports emoji


It seems that the Tiffany model of 823SH will also appear.


·Question-and-answer session

Q: As for the mobile widget, the corresponding model is still one type and the future spread will not be seen, but how to expand as a platform? Are you thinking about global expansion?
A: This function has been added one after another to Sharp's future model, and this function is installed almost for major manufacturers as well. Although it is a winter presentation this time, it will be deployed as a platform one after another. For global deployment widgets become a common platform, making the world's largest widget platform.

Q: Will Nico Nico Douga and Moba Gow Town become available in China?
A: That's right. Such services in Japan can be deployed to the world, contrary the things of the world come to Japan.

Q: Although the lineup from the high-end is substantial, how does the Softbank Mobile capture the prospect of sales? Also, there were four models of smartphones as high-end systems, but what are the skill ups and sales support systems of SoftBank Shops? Also, when I take iPhone 3G to the rural area, I feel pretty difficult to use, but what percentage of the whole is a high speed area and how I will deploy in the future, 3 points above.
A: SOFTBANK is an overwhelmed opponent, so anyway, we will disseminate new terminals and new functions to our customers anyway. Next year, I'd like to advance the long life of products in the next year and I would like to promote open platform. We want to cultivate the fan base, not the product becoming obsolete. Pantone has a long breath, it is standardized by lengthening breath anyway, and we also recommend high end and dress change. I also stick to design, function, usability.
Regarding sales support for smartphones, we made a system called "iPhone Master" in October. Now, there are 10,000 thousand iPhone masters. This sales staff has thoroughly trained special training and support, and introduces the state that they use every day into the program. We use 50 kinds and 100 kinds of applications individually, and tell the impression to customers. Know-how cultivated in such a way can be applied to the whole smartphone. I would like to stick to it thoroughly because it is policy to aim to become a wider and deeper Internet machine as a company.
For the high-speed area, 80% number of data coverage areas are HSDPAized.

Q: Is population coverage rate?
A: Percentage of 3G in traffic volume rather than population coverage ratio.

Q: About guarantee. The replacement cycle is 30 months long, and the security assurance pack scheduled to be revised in February next year is deployed at 498 yen, but do you plan to deploy it at 315 yen like docomo and au? Also, do you plan to make 1 year warranty 3 year warranty while the replacement cycle is getting longer?
A: The secure warranty pack packs not only the maintenance service but also various other services collectively. We pack a number of security and warranties in bulk. The price is not a comparison with a simple warranty pack, but it is a comparison with a full package.
We want you to confirm details of the terminal compensation period etc. to the person in charge, but it is packed with attractive features such as automatically giving points when changing various functions and models so that you can use it more reliably for a long time It is packaged.

Q: This year will be a year-end shopping battle where consumer environments are extremely difficult, but what will be consumed by consumers in terms of how to use the bonus on mobile phone market is a problem, but winning the holiday shopping season Confidence?
A: Since we have a goal of keeping evolving the Internet constantly providing emotion as a policy, we announced a new style of mobile. It has become the No. 1 net increase for 17 consecutive months, and continues to improve monthly for satisfaction and brand image. There are various problems of economic and economic trends, but we would like to promote to have at least fun on mobile.
Q: Is this millet?
A: As SoftBank, the cumulative number of users is directly linked to revenue. Sales of handsets have been prolonged by installment, but since we have been doing it two years ago, it is believed that customers will be coming up with just two years maturity and model changes will be extended as well.

Q: About the price plan of the USB type modem. Softbank Mobile does not currently have a flat-rate plan for PC, but will it be available by December?
A: Because I do not memorize, I will tell you exactly later. Since endless use on a computer ends up traffic, the best way to use such things is not to use it like watching the internet every day with a video site or a video site, rather than traveling or a street corner The idea that you want to make it possible for sales people and others who carry a notebook computer to use it conveniently. Since SOFTBANK 's WiFi hotspot is located all over the country, I want it to use it. Also, in the case of data cards for other companies' PC's, there are restrictions such as inability to access movie sites, but as a matter of fact, if you use overseas as a data card, it will cost millions of yen, so as a recommended way to use it I am still considering a style like a salesman. In other words, we do not recommend using movies or heavy objects at all times by connecting them at home.

Q: About the super pack. I adopted a 2-year split Super Bonus, but what other companies are doing is doing what it says will be cheaper if it is new or MNP. Are you thinking about discounts and special campaigns for users that SOFTBANK MOBILE caught?
A: As Softbank is very good at campaign, I always do various campaigns. It is doubtful how many people want to go to another company in a panic after a two-year installment sale. More than that, installment sales began two years ago, but we are doing test sales for installment sales a few months ago, and the users of the test sales have already passed two years. We are paying attention to the trend of users who have passed these two years, but there are no signs that we will cancel and go to other companies. Though Tadatomo was made and family members are free, they came out from other companies by matching with us, but other companies do not have free time to spend hours at night except at home without unlimited non-families. People who have increased Tadatomo with a great deal can not just fall out of themselves, so most customers who keep using it unexpectedly and continue to use it as it is. I always do campaigns in various forms. I am prideful that the campaign is best at SOFTBANK.

· Continued
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