iPhone 4 in Japan

iPhone 4 Softbank reservations will start from June 15th. iPhone 4 will go on sale on June 24th.

Official Softbank's press release:

http://www.softbankmobile.co.jp/ja/news/info/2010/20100608_01/index.html

iPhone 3G S in Japan

iPhone 3G S will be sold under the "iPhone for everybody" campaign.

Price with 24+2 months contract:

iPhone 3G S 16GB - campaign price : 480Yen per month (11,520Yen), regular price: 960Yen per month(23,040Yen)
iPhone 3G S 32GB - campaign price: 960Yen per month (23,040Yen), regular price: 1,440Yen per month (34,560Yen)

iPhone for everybody, campaign details.

Discount

If you are current Softbank customer with the 5,985 Yen Internet packet plan be sure to visit your closest Softbank store in order to apply for 1,575 Yen monthly discount. Discount won't be applied automatically you do need to apply for it and this can not be done online. Campaign ends on May 31.

Iphone for everybody discount

Free iPhones in Japan

Starting from tomorrow (28 Feb) SoftBank reduces the cost of 8GB iPhone to 0 (zero) Yen. It means free 8GB iPhone with the 2 years contract. SoftBank calls it: "iPhone for everybody campaign".



Cost of the unlimited Internet access (pakehodai) was reduced to 4100Yen.

Prices for 16-gigabyte iPhones will also be slashed from 34560 yen to 11520 yen.

Source:
http://mb.softbank.jp/mb/iphone/everybody/

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)