article_snippet: Japanese invented one of the world's favourite foods, sushi, and are mad on Japanese iPhones.
article_snippet: It took off at about the same time as the launch of the world's first commercial mobile internet service by Docomo, called i-mode, 16 years ago this month.
article_snippet: Years ahead of its time with mobiles that made foreign competition look like toddler's toys, Docomo's imode and its phones were the forerunners of today's apps and app-ecosystems.
article_snippet: Japan has a culture of charms and trinkets ('omamori' etc) which mobile phones bring into the 21st century.
article_snippet: Japan has a culture of charms and trinkets, known as omamori', which phones bring into the 21st century .
article_snippet: mobiles its mobiles have even slowed the national walking pace as Japan peers into its mobiles hand-helds to check its mobiles emails and surf the net.
article_snippet: Japan practically invented the smartphone and the mobile internet 16 years ago this month - long before the iPhone and even Wikipedia existed.
article_snippet: Leaving the market for Japanese mobile phone technology in the doldrums Docomo was good at pulling it all together in Japan but when the operators and manufacturers exported the operators and manufacturers ideas the operators and manufacturers stumbled because the operators and manufacturers weren't very good at building relationships with foreign carriers,' says Mr Brown on why Japan was unable to capitalise on Japan Japan head start with smartphones and mobile internet.
article_snippet: It's all about love' says the manager of Japan's biggest mobile accessory outfit – and the manager of Japan's biggest mobile accessory outfit – might be coming to a deserving smartphone near you soon.