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  2. Smartphone patent wars - Wikipedia

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    The pattern of suing and countersuing really began in 2009 as growth in the demand for smartphones accelerated dramatically with the advent of the modern smartphone, which combined a responsive touch screen with a modern multi-tasking operating system, a browser that provided full web access and an application store, in the form of the Apple iPhone 3G and the first Android phones.

  3. Japanese mobile phone culture - Wikipedia

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    Japan was a leader in mobile phone technology. The first commercial camera phone was the Kyocera Visual Phone VP-210, released in Japan in May 1999. [2] The first mass-market camera phone was the J-SH04, a Sharp J-Phone model sold in Japan in November 2000. [3] It could instantly transmit pictures via cell phone telecommunication. [4]

  4. Is Japan Falling Behind in Smartphones? - AOL

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    In the smartphone market, companies from this region have lagged international rivals. Panasonic has now said it will no longer release phones for NTT DoCoMo , Once upon a time, Japanese companies ...

  5. Sakoku Edict of 1635 - Wikipedia

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    After the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1603, Japan began trading with the Dutch East India Company and English East India Company through factories at Hirado in present-day Nagasaki Prefecture. Ieyasu's successor Hidetada significantly curtailed Catholic activity in Japan and banned foreign trading in Osaka and Kyoto.

  6. List of mobile phone brands by country - Wikipedia

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    Grundig Mobile: Hagenuk Telecom GmbH: insolvency in 1997, mobile phone development and manufacturing business acquired by Telital in 1998 [9] Siemens Mobile: Acquired by BenQ Corporation in 2005 to form BenQ Mobile: Telefunken Italy: Onda Mobile Communication India: YU Televentures: Was a subsidiary of Micromax Indonesia: Nexian Japan: Sanyo ...

  7. Trade policy of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The surplus reached a record US$18.2 billion in 1978, promoting considerable tension between the United States and Japan. In 1979 petroleum prices jumped again, and Japan's trade balance again turned to deficit, reaching US$10.7 billion in 1980. Once again, rapid export growth and stagnant imports returned Japan quickly to surplus by 1981.

  8. Mobile phone industry in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Japanese mobile phone handsets from 1997 to 2004. The Japanese mobile phone industry is one of the most advanced in the world. As of March, 2022 there were 199.99 million mobile contracts in Japan [1] according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. This is 158 percent of Japan's total population. [2]

  9. List of countries by telephone exports - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of countries by telephone exports (including mobile phones). Data is for 2012 and 2023, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity and the International Trade Centre. Currently the top twenty countries are listed. #