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Today was a big day for Pokemon fans – directly for the ones living in Japan, and indirectly for those around the world trying to get excited and pumped up for Nintendo and Niantic’s upcoming “Pokemon GO” mobile game. A lot of people have signed up to be beta...

The way things are panning out in preparation for one of 2016’s earliest and biggest tradeshows – that is, CES 2016 in Las Vegas – it looks like Chinese companies are pushing the traditional tech companies hard for market competition and visibility. And they just might do that in...

Besides all the other cool things that Japan has, consumer electronics manufacturer Sharp has seen it fit to produce the SH-M02-EVA20, which is, ostensibly, a smartphone themed after the seminal anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. The series is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and all sorts of product...

Like processor speeds, storage capacity and data transfer speeds, there are just things in technology that just keep going up. One of them is display resolution, both for big screen and mobile devices. This year we’ve just seen our first 4K display on a mobile device via the Sony...

Japan may be the second-biggest music market in the world, but the industry is vastly different as it is still compact discs that account for more than half of their music sales. The country's largest social network, LINE, will now aim to go where others have not gone before...

How big of a Disney fan would you have to be to willingly go and buy a smartphone that is obviously patterned after the "mousey" brand? Well, apparently, in Japan, that's not even a question that needs to be asked. LG has announced they are coming out with a...

We’ve seen Qualcomm’s new take on biometrics, it’s only now we realize it has a proper name – the Qualcomm Snapdragon Sense ID biometrics. It’s distinctly different from the way Apple and Samsung has envisioned biometric security for devices – that is, through a capacitive button. Qualcomm uses ultrasonic...

It was a sad weekend as tragedy struck Nepal. The country was hit by 7.8-magnitude earthquake causing damage all throughout the Kathmandu capital. The tech industry is especially mourning because Google executive Dan Fredinburg died in the Mount Everest avalanche as triggered by the earthquake. Death toll has recently...

Imagine being able to play a massive console RPG like Final Fantasy XII – complete with gorgeous graphics and gameplay – on your mobile. Well, you can keep imagining as gamers in Japan have to deal with this being a reality, but only for them. Square Enix has just...

Xiaomi is renowned for making stellar handsets, and offering them at unreal prices. Through accessory sales, they make up profit “lost” via device sale markdowns. Wildly popular, and with sales growing exponentially, the Chinese OEM is said to be taking their business model one step further by offering a...

For whatever reason, justified or not, it has become common practice to sometimes have variations of the same device model for different countries. While majority of those differences are usually related to network support, it seems that Sony is making quite a substantial difference in its latest Xperia Z1...

Nearly two months ago the folks from Amazon started accepting submissions for their upcoming 3rd party Android Appstore in Japan, and now things are ready to rock. Today Amazon has announced the Appstore has gone live in Japan. The new store will give Japanese Android users a change at...