Fujitsu and Toshiba to integrate mobile phone business, the market share to second place in Japan

It became clear that Fujitsu and Toshiba are policies to integrate mobile phone business.

For the first time in the world"F - 04 B" where keyboard part and display part are separatedAs well as high-end terminals such as elderly people friendly long-selling model "Easy phone"Fujitsu handling the series, for the first time in the countrySmartphone "T-01A" adopting 1 GHz SnapdragonAs Toshiba handling such as one becomes one, it seems that it can be expected to become a mobile phone manufacturer that can approach a wide range of users.

※ 12: 57 added comments announced by both companies

Details are as below.
NHK to Fujitsu and Toshiba Mobile Business Integration

Fujitsu to consider Toshiba Overseas offensive to integrate mobile phone business - SankeiBiz (Sankei Biz)

According to reports by the Japan Broadcasting Association and Sankei Shimbun, while the shrinking domestic market of mobile phones continues to shrink, such as shipments of last year shrank more than 25% compared to the previous year, Fujitsu and Toshiba, major electronics manufacturers, It seems that it is clear that we are making final adjustments in the direction of integrating business.

This means that Fujitsu and Toshiba will establish a jointly-owned company within the year to strengthen the domestic business foundation and integrate the mobile phone business, and if it realizes, the share will be the second place in the country following the top Sharp Have been,NEC and Casio, aiming for 2nd share in August last year, "NEC Casio Mobile Communications," where Hitachi integrated mobile phone businessExceeded.

Regarding mobile phone business, recentlyNTT DoCoMo 's "D" series had been familiar with Mitsubishi ElectricHad withdrawn in 2008,SANYO will also sell mobile phone business to KYOCERAAlthough domestic manufacturers are continuing reorganization, such as Toshiba and Fujitsu, when integrating the mobile phone business, major makers developing mobile phone business alone will only leave Sharp and Panasonic.

Incidentally, in addition to the establishment of "NEC Casio Mobile Communications", Panasonic is also likely to have a decline in market share due to Toshiba and Fujitsu's integration of mobile phone business, but with NEC camp which is jointly developing FOMA terminal Is there a possibility of forming a hand? As overseas forces are making a leap forward, we can not keep an eye on the trends of each company.

· 12:57 postscript
Fujitsu and Toshiba announced the following comments on this news report, respectively.

■ Fujitsu
About a partial report on mobile phone business: Fujitsu

An article about our mobile phone business was posted today with some coverage, but we have not made such a decision in our company.

■ Toshiba
Toshiba Investor Information (IR): About some reports on mobile phone business

Today, there were some reports on business integration in mobile phone business, but it was not announced from our company. In the mobile phone business, we have been working on various constitutional improvements and reforms through business structural reforms, but we have not decided on business integration as in the press, and there is no new content to announce at this time.