
Bloomberg reports that Samsung is looking to supply Vodafone with 3G cellphones next summer. Flacks from both companies have been told to keep their mouths shut, which is a bit of a giveaway.
Not sure what this means at the moment; Samsung’s phones are at least as good and sometimes more advanced than the homegrown Nipponica varieties, and they cost less too.
But Vodafone is in a poor third place behind DoCoMo and KDDI, having only just passed 2 million 3G subscribers, which is a small fraction (OK, about one-tenth) of its rivals. The move represents something of an about-face, too, as Vodafone apparently declined to sell Samsung models available elsewhere in its vast empire a while back.
Last week KDDI started rolling out Pantech’s A1405PT, and DoCoMo’s been developing stuff with Lucky Goldstar for some time. While not yet a big wave, it does seem that at least a trickle of great Korean phones is seeping into the Japanese market.
(Via Bloomberg)
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