Softbank’s crown jewel in one of the largest mobile markets in the world, Japan, is set to lose its lustre soon. Why? Nikkei Business has reported that Apple has started to look elsewhere apart from Softbank to carry their up and coming iPhone 5, with their sights set on KDDI, the country’s second largest mobile [...]

KDDI is the second biggest mobile company in Japan, and they have recently created a terrific way of watching streaming video on a mobile phone. You will note how the user can focus on one particular area of the video, and how this is done at the server level instead of on the phone …

We have already seen the Light Pool cellphone by KDDI, and it would appear that another interesting concept by KDDI is here. This is the PixCell via Prismoid artist edition prototype. It is designed by Kohei Nawa, a Japanese artist, and it is meant to illustrated “the use of light to transmit the …

All the way from Japan comes a new cellphone developed by KDDI and codenamed Light Pool due to the 22 LEDs that light up the device and create 100 different patterns – one for when you get an email, another for a text message, etc. The Light Pool boasts a 3.2-inch VGA TFT display screen [...]

KDDI, the second biggest mobile company in Japan, has unveiled several new models for the summer. As you can see from picture here, most of these are waterproof. Is it just me, or do most of these look like cameras? They should be available in Japan by the end of the month. …

It’s not every day that we hear about new Linux phones so we definitely should check them out. Panasonic and NEC seem not to care about Android, Windows Mobile or Symbian OS that much. They seem to prefer LiMo instead. In fact they love it so much that they have announced a daring project which [...]

Does your phone come with WiFi support or you’re waiting for a good excuse to get a WiFi-enabled phone? Well we’ve found an alternative solution for you, a WiFi-enabled microSD card. The card has been developed by the KDDI Corp and it can offer you instant WiFi access to any phone that comes with microSD [...]

I bet you weren’t expecting this were you? It looks like Japanese customers are downloading lots and lots of porn using their 3G connection. And you know what happens when too many people are downloading too much stuff over a 3G network? The 3G networks get overwhelmed while the porn industry is flourishing. It looks [...]

Recently, Japanese cellular provider KDDI released a Sharp waterproof, solar-powered cell phone, rumored to be renamed the SH002. Growing interest in both photovoltaic power as a green and clean source of energy and solar-powered devices has encouraged Sharp to globally release its new LR0GC02 solar module for mobile devices. The LR0GC02 solar panel uses compact [...]

The device in the picture is more special than others. It is water-resistant and solar-powerd and it will arrive in Japan this June from KDDI. Sharp is the maker and we might expect it to make similar phones in the near future. KDDI says that as little as 10 minutes of sun absorption will get [...]