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Does Asia need the iPhone?

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“Does Japan need the ?”asks BusinessWeek.

In a number of ways the would be regressive to a number of features already available to Japanese consumers.

 Does Asia need the iPhone?clipped from dealarchitect.typepad.com
But, as an old girlfriend used to say “What I need and what I want are two different things”
So let’s rephrase the question “Does Asia want the ?”
Actually the same argument would go for Korea and a few other Asian countries with more sophisticated mobile networks and gadgets that US consumers will not see for a while. And at its current pricing? and lack of WI-FI ubiquity the would have a hard time reaching the mass market in China or .
“Japan’s 10 handset makers, which dominate the domestic market,
already offer dozens of models .. that send e-mail, browse the Internet, shoot photos and videos,
and even pick up live TV broadcasts. Most come with a built-in global
positioning system, and some even double as credit cards and commuter
passes or safeguard personal data using fingerprint or face-recognition
technology…In its current form, the doesn’t work on Japan’s advanced third-generation, or 3G, network”

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