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Softbank Japan is given hope to the growing number of iPhone users in Japan who are missing the emotion icons in SMS as it is used and known on all mobile phones in Japan.

“Email without emoticons can’t be email in Japan,” said SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son. “We persuaded Apple Computer (to localize iPhones for the Japanese market).” Softbank Mobile will add the emoticon function to Apple iPhones within the year through an update program.

If the company is providing the update on time for the Christmas/ year end sale season, it has a good chance to increase the number of its iphone users in this important year end sale.

Softbank will bring 1seg TV to the iPhone in Japan. Not many details have been revealed at this point. It is expected that the device will not only bring digital TV to the iPhone 3G, but also will be an extra battery to enhence the limited life of the current 4-hour the iPhone has.

As Masayoshi Son presented the device on Thursday to Click to continue »

Brandon Matthews submits: There seems to be a lot of excitement surrounding a new Sirius XM (SIRI) application for Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone. Sure it’s nice to have another way of receiving the Sirius XM service on a device that has sold millions and will probably sell tens of millions more by Christmas, yet it will probably not result in any new subscribers to Sirius. So what Click to continue »