SOFTBANK MOBILE finally began full-scale response to the "Earthquake Early Warning", four years from the announcement of development, three years or more behind other companies

Early earthquake warning system notifying the occurrence of an earthquake before the strong tremor comes under the influence of the Great East Japan Earthquake "Earthquake Early Warning"As the demand for mobile phones has increased, SOFTBANK MOBILE, which has been waiting for full-fledged support until now, has announced that it will finally respond.

After 4 years from the announcement of development, it became full-scale response delayed by 3 years or more from other companies, we are announcing that we will provide updates for existing models and enhance services for iPhone applications .

Details are as below.
About correspondence to "Earthquake Early Warning" | SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp.

According to the press release of SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp., the company will release all mobile phones and smart phones to be released in the first half of FY2011, except for some models, and models released after the second half of FY2011 will be classified as "emergency earthquake It seems to have a function of "Quick Report" function.

Regarding the already released "DELL Streak 001DL" "GALAPAGOS 003SH" "GALAPAGOS 005SH" "HTC Desire X06HT" "HTC Desire X06HT II" "HTC Desire HD 001HT" "Libero 003Z" in the software update " The function will be provided in order.

For iPhone, SOFTBANK MOBILE delivers the application "Yukuru call" for iPhone, which provides the "Earthquake Early Warning" function, but SOFTBANK MOBILE offers full server enhancement, etc. to improve notification speed We plan to support it in a similar way. We are also planning to support the Android application "Yurerukuru call" for Android which will be provided soon.

By the way, SOFTBANK MOBILE(PDF file) Announcement to respond to "Earthquake Early Warning" on 30th May 2007However, the corresponding model was released in 2009 "Easy Mobile 831N"And stayed only a long time to NTT docomo which started full-scale correspondence from the model released in November 2007 and KDDI which started full-scale response from the January 2008 release model.

Since the occurrence of the "Tohoku Region Pacific Coast Offshore Earthquake" that occurred on March 11, there were frequent earthquakes occurring over a wide area, so cases where accurate "emergency earthquake bulletin" could not be announced occurred in the first place Whether it can be prepared in case of emergency or not in case it is not doing it is so much different from the point that it is desired to respond as quickly as possible.