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Softbank profit surges on brisk smartphone sales

Technology Jul. 28, 2011 - 03:35PM JST ( 5 )

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AU_user_since_1998Jul. 28, 2011 - 04:39PM JST

This month of July, I quit Softbank (because of iPhone turned into i-Brick). Two subscribers will be added to DoComo because I also changed my work phone from SB to DoCoMo. Also because of what happened to my iPhone, some of my friends thinking of going to Softbank were discourage of doing so and they had changed their minds. They stayed in Docomo and some stayed to AU.

To potential iPhone subscribers, please be warned that Apple does not offer a monthly insurance of the phones unlike AU/DoCoMo, in which just for a fee of 390 yen per month, your phone will be replaced even if you inadvertently and purposely drop your phone into the toilet bowl.
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ritzjpnJul. 28, 2011 - 04:49PM JST

Softbank surviving on Apple Products and White Plan.Otherwise who wants softbank...and i dont know why they have compulsory data plans for smartphones.Consumers has no choice and endup in 2yrs contract.Govt is sleeping as usual.
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TimeiClicJul. 29, 2011 - 12:45AM JST

Docomo are currently paying Softbank users 1330yen per month to switch over to them.

I changed from an HTC Desire on Softbank to a Samsung Galaxy S 2 on Docomo, and have saved a load of money in doing so.

Softbank are really not a good outfit. The staff in the shops are morons and tell the most ridiculous lies to the customers. One guy, when I was talking about getting an Android phone for my friend told us that if we wanted a 16gb MicroSD card, it would be over 10,000yen. I laughed in his face, and told him the same card was under 6,000yen across the road in BIC Camera.

Sales assistants in technical shops here are the most smug, cloyingly slimy people I have ever met. I love beating them down with superior tech-knowledge.

So yeah, Softbank suck. Docomo is the way to go.
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CarcharodonJul. 29, 2011 - 08:31PM JST

if we wanted a 16gb MicroSD card, it would be over 10,000yen. I laughed in his face, and told him the same card was under 6,000yen across the road in BIC Camera.

I just bought a 16Gb one for 1800 yen on Amazon, ichiman is ludicrous!

These figures are misleading, new subscribers? if you" Cancel" your contract on one phone and "resign" with a new phone - you are new subscriber, even though you are with the same phone company.

Au and Docomo have some brilliant smartphones, now and they actually have signal, so you can use you phone when you want in more places, Softbanks Apple fed boom will slow down soon.
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melguyJul. 29, 2011 - 10:39PM JST

What neither side seems to grasp is this: as the virtualized realm of cyberreality and social networking takes over daily life, the actual physical economy will matter less and less (to those who are still alive and have an internet connection). What these new gadgets offer is, simply put, escapism. In a world of dwindling resources, where each person's share of the physical realm decreases over time, it is no wonder that physical reality fails to satisfy. But thanks to the new, intimate, glowing handheld mobile computing devices, the unsatisfactory real world can be blotted out, and replaced with a cleansed, bouncy, shiny version of society in which little avatars utter terse little messages. In the cyber-realm there are no sweaty bodies, no cacophony of voices to suffer through—just a smooth, polished, expertly branded user experience.