http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/May 13th 2010 8:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/
I think NTT Docomo should thank Google (for Android) and not Sony...ndroid rules]]>May 13th 2010 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/May 13th 2010 8:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/
fugly? did you think the nexus one, a two-tone grey brick with a trackball (on a touchscreen phone nonetheless) looked good? ha ]]>May 13th 2010 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/May 13th 2010 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/the black gloss on the phone and the "glassy" ui are things known to appeal greater in eatern markets vs western. Personally i dont think it looks too bad.]]>May 13th 2010 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/Seems like japanese brothers are starting to love Android OS phones.
Thats always good news.]]>May 13th 2010 8:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/X10 has been out for over a month here. I chose the X1 over it.]]>May 13th 2010 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/May 13th 2010 9:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://j.mp/xperia-first-concept]]>May 14th 2010 5:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/
I have used now for a week and could not agree more.
I would not get it for my mum or girlfriend, but for me it's all I wanted.
BTW: it selling well in the UK too, but I am seeing a lot of people buying the desire... In your face recession!]]>May 14th 2010 7:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/May 13th 2010 8:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/LOLAT&T]]>May 13th 2010 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/May 13th 2010 11:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/
Engadget is reading into this completely wrong. The reason this is selling so well is because it's made by SONY! It's the first good smartphone ever made by Japan's own favorite brand so people want it.

Why do you think the XBOX and XBOX360 has had so much trouble getting into the Japanese market. Because Japanese people only buy their own products!]]>May 14th 2010 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/May 13th 2010 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/May 13th 2010 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/
+Reps for truth.]]>May 13th 2010 8:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/In fact, it is difficult buying a phone without a camera, which we needed if we have to go factory for installations and testing - as most forbid use of phones with camera.]]>May 13th 2010 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/Nice points.]]>May 13th 2010 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/And the world is moving to "things featurephone can't do". Like full web with constantly-changing standards, open services which bypass and replace carrier services, new protocols that needs modifications on OS, so on. Featurephones can't adapt to new ages after they're cooked their ROMs in factory, but you could always get new apps, flash Cyanogen, or WM7, on a dated, obsolete smartphone. Japan's switch to smartphone is too late, and it IS now following others, rather than cutting edges on its own.
]]>May 13th 2010 10:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/From what I've seen on an Docomo phone (SH-06A), they have everything they need. The firmware is fully upgradeable, full Internet access (not sure about Flash), and there are all kinds of apps to download from Docomo's software store.

The spec's pretty awesome too (for a 2009 phone):
3.3 in 854x480 LCD made by Sharp, with capacitive multitouch;
10MP CCD camera;
1-Seg mobile TV;
RFID wallet;
A comfortable clamshell form factor;
......

I personally would need no other phone if they didn't lock it down so tightly.]]>May 14th 2010 2:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/I hope Engadget do some hands-on for Keitais... yeah the specs are too good to ever think if it's a crap... User experience is terrible on them. Huge body, irresponsive complicated software, noisy cam... Specs are specs, what makes a device better is innovation, and there's little to none is in there now.
BTW, they do play YouTube. See http://d.hatena.ne.jp/video/niconico/sm3632301
]]>May 14th 2010 6:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/May 13th 2010 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/if it continues at that rate, 1,000,000 people will have that phone before long before the end of the year!]]>May 13th 2010 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/
They wont of course. Phones in Japan have a notoriously short popularity window. Even iPhone tanked after the first couple of months.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122143317323034023.html]]>May 14th 2010 12:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/
Open your eyes and look around the internet. You'll find tonnes of satisfied X10 customers. Your crappy experience with a pre-production proto isn't representative of the people who actually paid money for the device and are enjoying it.]]>May 13th 2010 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/
+100]]>May 14th 2010 4:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/
Almost...]]>May 13th 2010 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/Troll is bad at trolling]]>May 13th 2010 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/No one needs to beg, I went willingly (yes, i never had an iphone, but i wanted one, once)]]>May 13th 2010 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/
Totally not. Download a few i-appli to mimic what iPhone OS/Android does, and the keitais become just as much of a smartphone than iPhone/Android. Perhaps even more of a smartphone, since you can pay almost everything and watch TV, something Western phones can never hope to do in their lifetime.

How do I know? I own one.]]>May 13th 2010 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/
Sprint offers sprint TV. Not to mention there's a little device called a slingbox.]]>May 13th 2010 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/Those services are tied to a carrier. 1seg TV is nationwide, indepenedent of a carrier. You can watch 1seg without having an active contract on some models.]]>May 13th 2010 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/May 13th 2010 8:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/
But I personally think Western TV shows are boring as hell.]]>May 13th 2010 8:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/
engadget is just butt hurt over anything not apple as usually. ]]>May 13th 2010 9:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/May 13th 2010 9:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/
Either way, I would totally jump onto FeliCa if it was available in NA. Makes life a lot easier.]]>May 13th 2010 10:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/
The difference between Japan and America's phones is more one of infrastructure. We don't even have the tech to scan phones as credit cards, for example. If retail stores implemented it, I'm sure smartphones would naturally incorporate it. The difference is your keitai can only ever do what it is manufactured to do, while smartphone operating systems are flexible and can take on any number of unintended uses. HTC can make a phone with a DVB tuner when it becomes popular in America, but a keitai featurephone OS will never feature push gmail, let me download apps like astrid or have free google navigation, manage my mint.com account from a nice interface, or any number of things that are made possible by flexible OS design and downloadable apps. ]]>May 13th 2010 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/
Keitai OS runs Symbian. It is in fact, just as extensible as Android or iPhone OS - like I said, simply head over to i-mode and install i-applis. In fact, there is even a foursquare i-appli, and foursqure is not even remotely popular in Japan yet. It is possible to install apps when necessary.

Lastly, keitais do not really need to have push mail. If one desires, again, head over and install i-appli. Or simply use the mail feature (equivalent to SMS elsewhere), with a mail address assigned to each terminal. Or, simply use web apps with unlimited browsing.

Though I agree with you on one thing: the markets evolved completely differently. It's just that I for one, prefer the Japanese market model as opposed to the world model.]]>May 14th 2010 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/Don't forget that Nokia has had some models with a DVB-H tuner built in like the N77 and the N92 and they didn't take off neither in NA nor the EU. Western audiences just don't really care for mobile tv, it's something that's doomed from the start. Even mobile video is something many people aren't too keen of.]]>May 14th 2010 6:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/1Seg is not from customer demand. That was designed to stick users onto their phones to improve ARPU.]]>May 14th 2010 7:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/
And they've also begun to crack down on the "white ROM" secondhand phone market from what I've found out - they are now blacklisting IMEIs - so now when you buy a used phone you need to ensure the IMEI wasn't barred from service for no good reason.

Maybe if those damn 'socialists' didn't drop that bomb on Japan... /s]]>May 13th 2010 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/
As a 'foreigner' in japan, I had no trouble buying a phone.]]>May 13th 2010 8:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/>>Too bad it's still a pain in the ass for "foreigners" to buy phones in
>>Japan...
I have being living in Japan for 15 years now and a foreigner (African). I never heard anything like this before.

Until, recently I had two mobile phones from AU by KDDI.

>>And they've also begun to crack down on the "white ROM"
>>secondhand phone...
This was due to crime concern, why will you want to pay for phone in Japan, anyway? and worse a second-hand?]]>May 13th 2010 8:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/
You're thinking about Korea. They're two different countries, you know.]]>May 14th 2010 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/
Ok kidding aside... Is anyone really shocked by this? Featurephones seem to make sense in Japanese tech seeing as how tightly they control their tech infrastructures (look at the Wii and PS3 or just Sony in general) They would rather create an entire proprietary system (like a featurephone) than use a standard like a smartphone. I'm still in shock Nintendo used SD cards in the Wii.]]>May 13th 2010 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/
Maybe they should take this "success" and actually release a phone on time, rather than 18 months of delays due to a stupid UI on an outdated OS version.]]>May 13th 2010 8:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-is-likely-ntt-docomos-best-selling-sma/
The X10 was announced in November 200 and released in march 2010. 4-5 months isnt that long is it? ]]>May 14th 2010 2:25AM