Japanese smartphone brand survival space is narrow

6 August, according to Taiwan "central news agency" reported that the United States, according to the latest Wall Street journal reported 10 years ago is a unique advanced phones, have access to the Internet and other parts of the world rare rich function, but those days are long gone. Action industry focus to smart phones, mobile phone manufacturing industry has made Japan the fate of the change, most companies cannot bring the smartphone business development to the local market, Apple (Apple Inc.) and Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co.) and other international brands and more and more popular with the smart phone users in Japan.

Report said that in this case, Japan more vendors may be thinking about their own smartphone career blow "lights out", also is not at all surprising.

"Japanese economic news" (Nikkei) on August 6, Panasonic company (Panasonic corp.) has decided to stop the supply of new smartphones to Japan's leading telecoms company NTT DoCoMo (NTT DoCoMo Inc.). The nikkei, points out that due to the Panasonic recently by DoCoMo only selling smart phone, this decided to suggest the electronics manufacturers are considering fully withdraw from consumer smartphone business.

Panasonic and DoCoMo company representatives declined to comment.

The report before, another Japanese electronics maker er yi xi company (NEC corp.) will exit the smartphone business just announced last week.

Er yi xi, Casio Computer company (Casio Computer Co.,) and Hitachi (Hitachi Ltd.) of the Mobile phone business merger in 2010, Mr Yi xi Casio Mobile communication company (NEC Casio Mobile Communications) arises at the historic moment, but the combination of limited help to save the struggling business.

Mobile phone business scale and Panasonic was falling. Last October, Panasonic and open the decision to stop selling smartphones in Europe, its Eluga model to lose the only overseas market, Panasonic briefly attempted to become an international smartphone brand also will end.

According to the report, according to Japanese MM Research (MM Research Institute), issue a report on May 12 months at the end of march, apple with 35.9% of the city for the largest supplier of smartphone shipments in Japan, in the back of Fujitsu (Fujitsu) and Sony (Sony) were 13% and 12% respectively.