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"KDDI will also release iPhone 5 in November"A surprising news report was held.

KDDI, the shock of entering "iPhone 5": Nikkei Business Online


According to the Nikkei Business Online report, concerned parties revealed that KDDI will sell in Japan about "iPhone 5", which Apple plans to release this fall.

KDDI has already entered into a domestic sales agreement with Apple of "iPhone 5" and is preparing with related fields in a direction to start selling around au shops nationwide from around November. In addition, the iPhone 5 itself is said to be released around the world around mid-October.

To the end this report is based on information that stakeholders revealed, but what I care about is "whether it really goes on sale".

In January this year, Apple's current CEO, Tim Cook, announced the iPhone 4 for the US biggest mobile phone company "Verizon Wireless" adopting the same communication method "CDMA 2000" as KDDIIPhone's exclusive sale contract has been completed worldwideAfter revealing the future, about the iPhone business in the future "We will do everything we can to ensure that as many users as possible get the iPhone"We announced a policy to expand our market share.

Even for KDDI, the acquisition of iPhone is a very important theme, but at the company's third quarter earnings announcement held in January this year, President Takashi Tanaka"I am sorry but I would like you to say" no comment "for iPhone"We are showing an interesting move, such as making comments that seems to be conscious of Apple that wishes to persist through thorough secretiveism.

By the way, there is NTT docomo, the biggest in the country, other than KDDI as a candidate for Apple to join hands,NTT DoCoMo's vice president Tsujimura announced at the shareholders' meeting held in June that, And it is said that the hurdle to realize "NTT Docomo iPhone" is extremely high, such as incorporating i-mode service as condition of introducing iPhone.

DoCoMo wants to offer services that i-mode realizes when customers using i-mode are migrated to smartphones, because it is impossible for iPhone, iPhone I do not think about offering.

However, KDDI has not only Android smart phones deployed in catch phrase of "Android au"First released in Japan for smartphone "Windows Phone IS12T" adopting Microsoft's latest OS "Windows Phone 7.5" that can not incorporate carrier's own serviceWe are sticking to incorporating career services such as doing, so Apple has become a relatively easy-to-handle opponent for Apple.

Incidentally,KDDI is scheduled to implement the autumn and winter model presentation on September 26However, even though the official announcement of iPhone 5 has not been done from Apple, even if the report of Nikkei Business Online is true, it is hoped that the "KDDI version iPhone 5" will be announced on September 26 It seems.

If I truly succeed in winning iPhone 5, I will be the only carrier in Japan offering Android, Windows Phone 7.5, iPhone 3 platforms, so I can keep an eye on the company from now on.

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