tuaw.com - 8/20/2008
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The land of Hello Kitty is also the land of the iPhone. Here in the US, we only have 2 or 3 magazines that cover the Mac, and they usually throw in coverage about the iPhone. Smartphone & Pocket PC Magazine is coming out with a special iPhone magazine called iPhone Life . But for our Japanese friends, many iPhone-specific magazines have been available for over a year. In the photo at ...
amarinalameda.com - 8/19/2008
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amarinalameda.com —
Since the iPhone was launched 3G in Japan,
many have been able to read news about queues...
to buy it, if you would succeed or not, and so on. The truth is that many in the street, are not (in one month, I met only a couple of Japanese using it on the ...
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Japanese Magazines Piggyback on iPhone's Success
Wired: Gadget Lab —
... to devote an entire publication
to the immensely popular handset: The iPhone has become a rather large
subcategory (if we can even use that word anymore) among Apple's
offerings, and Gadget Lab's well aware there's plenty to write about it.
But at least four magazines? Geez. And we've even got an iPhone mag
coming to the United States called iPhone Life. At this rate,
eventually someone could compile a bible about the Jesus phone.
iPhone magazines big in Japan [TUAW]
(Photo credit: magerleagues/Flickr) ...
Friday afternoon Apple links, August 22 edition
Infinite Loop —
... to do what interests them and the rewards will follow. As usual, he also spoke about his own experiences in the early days of Apple and working with very few resources. Who would have known that the Japanese were so into iPhones? So much so, that there are a plethora of Japanese magazines dedicated to the device, as pointed out by our friends at TUAW and ...
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