SoftBank iPhone email notification

Thanks to the small SBankNotify additional app for the jailbroken iPhones you can finally get sound plus vibration notification when i.softbank.jp email is being received.



1) Add new Cydia source: http://homepage3.nifty.com/moyashi/cydia
(cydia->manage->sources->add)
2) Reload packages lists and find SBankNotify package, it will be installed togeather with the BossPrefs if you don't have it already.


3) Start the BossPrefs and turn the SBankNotify ON

If you want to change the incoming melody, swap the /System/Library/Audio/UISounds/sbank.caf AIFF file with your custom ringtone.

Source: http://moyashi.air-nifty.com

Softbank's new data plan for iPhone

Revised Plan will vary according to the usage. Now you can cut down your monthly payment from 7280Yen to 2990Yen if you only use around 2MB (20175 packets) of 3G data.

Softbank official information

1500 people in line for iPhone

The Daily Yomiuri features iPhone story on the frontpage.

More than 1500 people lined up overnight to get their hands on the Apple Inc. handset outside the store, where the much-hyped product first went on sale earlier than other stores in the morning. A kilometer-long line formed outside the store, which stopped accepting orders for the model before its doors opened at 7 a.m.


Link to the story (in Japanese)

iPhone 3G commercial

iPhone commercial

The commercial, entitled Hallway, debuted during keynote speech at WWDC on June 9th - now in Japanese. Notice how iPhone's interface changed from English to Japanese too.

iPhone Japan events

iPhone is almost here! Here is a list of major events taking place around Tokyo.  

• SoftBank Omotesando, from 6.45 - countdown ceremony
• Yurakucho Bic Camera main building, from 11.10 countdown ceremony with the SoftBank's president  Masayoshi Son
• Akiba and Umeda Yodobashi Camera Multimedia building, from 11.45 countdown events 

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Omotesando flagship store.

Omotesando SoftBank's flagship store for three days will sell only iPhones starting from 7AM July 11th. They also distribute brochures with waiting and contract instructions.

iPhone on sale starting from 7AM

According to the SoftBank's announcement iPhone will be sold starting from 7AM in the SoftBank flagship store - Omotesando, Tokyo.  Other shops will start sales at noon.  There is already about 20 people waiting in line in front of the Omotesando store. 

Source: Asahi