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How does one square the oft-heard claim “Japan is years ahead in any [cell phone] innovation” [Source] with the fact that there are two iPhone models on Japan’s top-ten list?

The linked NYT article offers some hints that maybe the Japanese cell phone aren’t that many light-years ahead after all: “handsets [in Japan] often have primitive, clunky interfaces”; “most handsets have no way to easily synchronize data with PCs”; and “the emphasis on hardware makes even the newest phones [in Japan] surprisingly bulky”.

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