Yahoo launching an Android phone in Japan

19 August, 2011
Manufactured by Sharp, the Yahoo Phone will be available through Japan's SoftBank operator.

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  • 19 Aug 2011

why sharp- not again asian phone- get real

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    • AnonD-4697
    • LrK
    • 19 Aug 2011

    AnonD-252, 19 Aug 2011Is Android Market coming to MeeGo N9? Nokia choose WP7 onl... moreIs for the money, Nokia needs capital to be in business..

    Meego don't have money for Nokia, Microsoft has...You wan to run a business with the partnership of someone that has no capital for you??

    I don't think so. Nokia has bad sales rate and need Money to keep on.

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      • lennard
      • RxV
      • 19 Aug 2011

      JAPAN vs the world.... I bet for japan.. they make the most hi-tech in mobile phone.. i mean smartphone ... they were Sharp, panasonic, kyocera, sanyo, NEC, Fujitsu, hitachi, toshiba, sony ericsson. Did i mis the others?

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        • Atif
        • KSB
        • 19 Aug 2011

        Anonymous, 19 Aug 2011i bet that apple is going to sue and block this phone in japanWho cares about apple....?

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          • Robert D.
          • mAP
          • 19 Aug 2011

          Anonymous, 19 Aug 2011every one coming to google...finally we can expect apple an... moreMrs./Mr., you are so totally wrong that I am wondering why am I bothering explaining to you. Should all phone producers adopt Android as their only OS, what would stop Google charging all of them a licensing fee? Nothing. Adn so, artificially all phones will cost more and the development of the OS will slow down dramatically. This is the reason competition is always welcome. Also, IMHO this is the reason why Nokia adopted Windows Mobile as the new platform. Doing so, they created a third OS option for the people to choose from. Sleep on it!

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            • Tee Hee~
            • 2@T
            • 19 Aug 2011

            Kinda makes me giggle the fact that yahoo's trying to sell a google product XD

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              • AnonD-252
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              • 19 Aug 2011

              simple user, 19 Aug 2011"stolen"???? (rofl). My dear, you are so wrong... moreIs Android Market coming to MeeGo N9?
              Nokia choose WP7 only because they were fooled by the troyan horse Elop with his hidden mission for Microsoft to save WP7 by paying a lot of money to Nokia for choosing WP7.
              N97 was a so extremly bad phone, too slow cpu and not enough ram and my N97 mini constantly freezes/crashes and no text reflow in the webbrowser make it almost completely unusable...
              Google do not mind Nokia Maps, but they could not accept Nokia replace/remove Google Maps from Android. HTC have free Locations for HTC buyers only on Android so Nokia could use Nokia Maps on Android! (I use Wisepilot and buying a full Navigation software from the Market is not very expensive at all.)

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                • simple user
                • Sve
                • 19 Aug 2011

                AnonD-252, 19 Aug 2011Everyone is using Android, only Apple and Nokia do not. And... more"stolen"???? (rofl).

                My dear, you are so wrong...

                and regarding Nokia - they will never make Android device, not becasue they hate their fans, but because their fans refused to buy n97 and simillar top-end devices which would provide enough earnings to Nokia to allow it to experiment with android devices. How to say.. Nokia CEO said in plain text Nokia is close to severe financial problems and they have plans only for WP phones now.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • 3Yi
                  • 19 Aug 2011

                  AnonD-9845, 19 Aug 2011go to japan and see for yourself.tell the japanese people t... moreYet the iPhone 4 was not just the most popular phone in Japan, it was also the second most popular as well. It took 1st and 2nd spot in the Top 10:

                  http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/18/the-iphone-4-tops-handset-sales-ranking-in-japan/

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                    • Anonymous
                    • fCS
                    • 19 Aug 2011

                    every one coming to google...finally we can expect apple and nokia too

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                      • Dave
                      • myA
                      • 19 Aug 2011

                      AnonD-9845, 19 Aug 2011go to japan and see for yourself.tell the japanese people t... moreIts true Ive seen their phones. They do look mental though lol.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • 75$
                        • 19 Aug 2011

                        Very slow...a day old news, Engadget had it first as usual...

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                          • AnonD-9845
                          • PS6
                          • 19 Aug 2011

                          AnonD-14242, 19 Aug 2011Lol how a phone can be faster than SGS2 or iPhone 4 in this... morego to japan and see for yourself.tell the japanese people that iP4 or sgs2 is better that their country-made phones, and they will surely slap ur face and stomp u and ur phone to death.
                          truth be told, there are a lot of awesome devices made and sold strictly in japan only, hence why most of us wouldnt even give a chance to believe such things could exist.but they do exist.
                          believe it or not......believe it!!

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                            • AnonD-15787
                            • fv8
                            • 19 Aug 2011

                            Funny yahoo uses android but anyway yahoo isn't an idiot android is the best OS so the go for the best they are not morons to not use android because of competing with Google

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                              • Qxp
                              • 19 Aug 2011

                              how about phone's default search engine? Google? or Yahoo?

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                                • Max
                                • w9L
                                • 19 Aug 2011

                                Is this is correct?
                                "The phone will come will some of Yahoo’s apps pre-installed."
                                2 x "Will"s
                                :)

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                                  • bhavesh
                                  • PTS
                                  • 19 Aug 2011

                                  i'm wishing next nokia would launch the android platform..........

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                                    • bhavesh
                                    • PTS
                                    • 19 Aug 2011

                                    the most craziest thing i have ever hear, the yahoo is launching android phone of one of the biggest competeter google...

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • P@1
                                      • 19 Aug 2011

                                      AnonD-252, 19 Aug 2011Everyone is using Android, only Apple and Nokia do not. And... moregoogle does not want nokia maps on android that is why there is no nokdroid

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • 3A1
                                        • 19 Aug 2011

                                        i bet that apple is going to sue and block this phone in japan