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Yeah, it’s not easy to understand Japan’s mobile market habit. Even the big boy like Nokia should give-up and decided to cease sales there, due to very tiny part amount of their market share. The only Finn company’s product that will stay in the Rising Sun country is the luxurious Vertu.

Japan is the fourth largest market in the world, after United States, China, and India. With over 109 million subscribers, that’s count 85% of total population, there is little room to grow for “outsider” like Nokia.

[via 3Gweek]

Got these fresh pictures from Justamp, enjoy new live pics of the cancelled Sony Ericsson Paris (P200).

Governments in the European Union are set to regulate the costs on roaming charges of data usage and text messages. According to Mobile Industry Review, by citing Reuters, the EU Telecoms Commissioner has outlined the cost should be at 11 Euros cents for a roaming text message, compared with the existing average rate of 29.

This all new regulations will effective on July 1, 2009, when the joint legislation takes effect in the European Parliament. And it’s aso just in time for the summer holidays. Wahoo.

Just woke up in my hotel’s room, I found this fantastic news! Finally, Linux ported to the iPhone! Yeah, now Linux operating system can be ported to the iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, and first-generation iPod touch platforms. You rock, man!

I’m pleased to announce that the Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported to Apple’s iPhone platform, with support for the first and second generation iPhones as well as the first generation iPod touch. This is a rough first draft of the port, and many drivers are still missing, but it’s enough that a real alternative operating system is running on the iPhone.

What we have:

• Framebuffer driver
• Serial driver
• Serial over USB driver
• Interrupts, MMU, clock, etc.

What we have in openiboot (but hasn’t been ported yet):

• Read-only support for the NAND

What we don’t have (yet!):

• Write support for the NAND
• Wireless networking
• Touchscreen
• Sound
• Accelerometer
• Baseband support

A short narrated video demonstrating iPhone Linux below:

iPhone Linux Demonstration Video from planetbeing on Vimeo.

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Dialogue Communications launches its mobile billing services in Norway and Sweden, two of the most highly saturated mobile markets in the world, to allow consumers enjoying their mobile transactions.

Norway and Sweden have a combined mobile penetration is predicted to reach an estimated 122.5% by 2010. The international mobile payments specialist has designed its mobile payment framework, which can be integrated into its Mobile Site Builder tool in both countries.

The company currently provides similar services in the UK, Spain and in Australia where mobile payment solutions are rapidly developing.