free iPhones in Japan

iPhones are now free in Japan. Starting this friday, the only seller of Apple's iPhone in Japan, SoftBank Mobile, is having a special deal. With the purchase of a two year contract, a free 8GB iPhone 3G. Even with this awesome sale, marketing consultants predicted that the iPhone would not do so well in Japan. It is because the phones in Japan are too different from the iPhone which have a more "American" feel to it, being from Apple and all. Text messaging in Japan usually only consists of using just one thumb and not with qwerty keys. The iPhone's camera falls below standard compare to the average camera phone over there, the iPhone's display of emoji, or cute emoticons, is much harder to use, mostly everyone already has an iPod touch, and finally, Japan being one of the toughest cell phone markets in the world, doesn't help much neither. If this free iPhone deal was here in North America, there would no doubt be so much more sales in one of the most technology innovated countries, it might be a little bit harder to pull off.

iPod Touch - TruPhone, Now make calls using the Touch

TruPhone, in the beginning (way back in 2006) allowed iPhone users to make calls across the internet without having to pay any long distance fees and whatnot. It was something that troubled many cellphone operators and companies. But now, it is something that can be added to the iPod Touch as an application. With the application, anyone can now make calls and SMS, through WiFi through their Touch, as long as you're connected to the internet of course. Another limitation is that to use the new phone capability, you'll need a headset attached to the Touch. Calls made to other TruPhone users and GoogleTalk IM PC users are completely free of charge. Landline calls are charged seperately. With this, it might just be better to stick to the Touch and not get that iPhone everyone's been wanting, since the only difference between the two shortly ago was the phone capability, and now thats shrinking as well. What makes the TruPhone really good, is that it can be downloaded for free by clicking here or visit http://www.truphone.com/