14 DAY TRIAL // 3G phone sales seem to have boosted in the last year in Japan, as the number of such sold handsets has reached 40 million. This means great evolution for the mobile phone market in this country and for the 3G-enabled cellulars in general.
The telecommunication market in Japan is one of the most important, as its profits and technology are among the most advanced at a world scale. The future also has high chances of bringing even more performances.
"The market is full of excitement as phones with brilliant displays, rich multimedia capabilities and various novel functions were introduced last year to gain customer acceptance and market share", said Allyn Hall, a Director with In-Stat. Moreover, "In the advanced Japanese mobile phone market, the shipment of 3G phones exceeded 92% of 47.8 million phones sold in 2006", as Allyn Hall mentioned.
These figures are quite impressive, especially when considering the fact that they have been reached only during the last year. There are even more functions which have come to be used at a large scale in Japan. All these are quite evolved, which emphasized the great development which this market has managed to reach.
GPS phones and related services have managed to develop at a large scale and are now used by a large number of people. Moreover, camera, music player function and at least 2.4 inch screens with 240 x 320 resolution have become a common performance for most mobile phones in Japan. This comes only natural, as to respond to the needs for high technology that people have at this time.
Almost 100 3G enabled phone models have been launched in this country in the last year. This has resulted in a sale of more than 40 million units of such phone models and a considerable expansion for the Japanese telecommunication market.