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  • Sprint Announces Sanyo Zio Featuring Sprint ID for a Personalized Android Experience at a Great Value

    Posted on October 6, 2010 | No Comments
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  • Fujitsu, Toshiba in talks to merge mobile units

    Fujitsu, Toshiba in talks to merge mobile units

    Posted on June 11, 2010 | No Comments
    The domestic Japanese phone market has been in a state of contraction for some time, most notably evidenced by Mitsubishi's decision to exit the game altogether and the Sanyo-Kyocera tie-up from a couple years back. Fujitsu and Toshiba are the next two giants looking to combine their resources in the mobile space, a move that would create Japan's number two phone manufacturing venture behind Sharp and reduce to six the total number of firms making handsets there (down from ten in 2007). Though technologically years ahead of the rest of the world, Japan also suffers from deeper market saturation than perhaps anywhere else -- and the opportunities for product differentiation are sharply reduced by carrier RFPs that emphasize conformity to a standard spec sheet. Fujitsu is said to likely hold the majority stake if the deal goes down, but for what it's worth, nothing's been finalized yet. If a deal improves the odds of bringing hardware to North America by even the smallest of fractions, we're all for it.

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  • NEC outs 3D-enabled projector

    NEC outs 3D-enabled projector

    Posted on June 1, 2010 | No Comments
    And yet another 3D-related news item. This time, it's NEC (or NEC Display Technologies, to be more exact), which today announced [JP] a new 3D-enabled DLP projector. The announcement comes not even one week after the company priced and spec'd their 3D-powered desktop PC.

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  • Electric car runs over 1,000 km without recharge, shatters previous record

    Electric car runs over 1,000 km without recharge, shatters previous record

    Posted on May 24, 2010 | No Comments
    One of the biggest problems that stands between electric vehicles and becoming mainstream is limited battery life. But there has been some progress in that area lately: the Japan Electric Vehicle Club [JP], a civic group based in Tokyo, announced today a Mira EV customized by the group traveled exactly 1,003.184 kilometers without a recharge.

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  • Sanyo debuts world’s shortest-focus (and 3D-ready) projector

    Sanyo debuts world’s shortest-focus (and 3D-ready) projector

    Posted on May 18, 2010 | No Comments
    We're about to get yet another 3D-enabled piece of hardware, and this time, it's a projector. Sanyo's PDG-DWL2500J, announced today in Japan (press release in English), is not only "3D ready", but it also boasts the world's shortest projection distance (just 32cm to project images that are 80 inches in size) for projectors weighing less than 9kg.

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  • Boost Mobile gussies up their selection with the Sanyo Juno

    Boost Mobile gussies up their selection with the Sanyo Juno

    Posted on April 27, 2010 | No Comments
    For a long time, if you wanted to take advantage of Boost Mobile’s $50 Monthly Unlimited plan, you had to put up with a few disadvantages. The biggest, of course, was the fact that you were stuck using their sketchy iDEN network. Not only that, you had to do it with a handset that was [...]

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  • Sanyo outs two new full HD Xacti “dual cameras”

    Sanyo outs two new full HD Xacti “dual cameras”

    Posted on April 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Sanyo announced two new "dual cameras" (camcorder and digital camera in one) for the Japanese market yesterday, the Xacti DMX-CG100 (that's the pistol-grip model) and the Xacti DMX-GH1. Both feature an extra-compact body and the ability to record video in full HD and take 14MP pictures.

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  • BE-ENV: Panasonic Japan’s expensive, cool e-bike

    BE-ENV: Panasonic Japan’s expensive, cool e-bike

    Posted on March 22, 2010 | 1 Comment
    We've covered plenty of electric bicycles from Japan in the past, but let's be honest: Most of them are really ugly, for example these (technically interesting) models Sanyo introduced three weeks ago. But this new Panasonic e-bike, the BE-ENV [JP], looks rather cool and is something I could see the younger (and male) population actually using, too.

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  • Sprint suddenly gets all Captain Planet on us with green movement

    Sprint suddenly gets all Captain Planet on us with green movement

    Posted on February 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Being eco-friendly should definitely be high on the priorities list for electronics manufacturers and service providers, so I'm pretty happy to see that Sprint is doing its part to make our planet a nicer place for future generations. Just in case you're the apathetic type when it comes to the three Rs (recycle, reuse, reduce!), Sprint has put some incentives into place for you.

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  • Panasonic No. 1 in global patent applications in 2009, US takes top spot in country ranking

    Panasonic No. 1 in global patent applications in 2009, US takes top spot in country ranking

    Posted on February 9, 2010 | No Comments
    It lost the top spot in 2008, but in 2009, Panasonic submitted the most international patent applications (according to a preliminary report released by the World Intellectual Property Organization on Monday). Panasonic filed a total of 1,891 applications, topping the 1,847 of major Chinese telecommunications equipment producer Huawei Technologies (which was the No. 1 in 2008).

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  • First Sony, now Panasonic swings into black and raises outlook

    First Sony, now Panasonic swings into black and raises outlook

    Posted on February 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Sony isn't the only electronics powerhouse reporting good news from the financial front these days. Today Panasonic, which, as you will remember, recently acquired Sanyo for $4.4 billion, announced it returned to profit in its fiscal third quarter (October to December 2009), too. The company's profit nearly quadrupled to $1.1 billion, while revenue almost stayed the same at $20.1 billion in that quarter (on a year-on-year basis).

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  • Sanyo is bringing latest XACTI cams stateside

    Sanyo is bringing latest XACTI cams stateside

    Posted on February 4, 2010 | No Comments
    Sanyo announced a couple of tasty XACTI camcorders a few weeks ago for the Japanese market. We praised the cams for shooting 1080p video and 14.4MP stills, but questioned whether or not they will ever reach the States. Well, good news. They're on the way and should hit retailers sometime next month.

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  • Sanyo releases the 1080p, 14.4MP XACTI CG110 camcorder

    Sanyo releases the 1080p, 14.4MP XACTI CG110 camcorder

    Posted on January 27, 2010 | No Comments
    Sanyo just released it's latest camcorder in the the long-running XACTI line. This model keeps with the familiar design but features 1080p video recording and 14.4MP stills that can both record to a SDHC/SDXC card or the internal 16GB memory. That's a lot of camera.

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  • Panasonic ready to pump $1.1 billion into solar energy business

    Panasonic ready to pump $1.1 billion into solar energy business

    Posted on January 13, 2010 | No Comments
    There's a reason why Panasonic paid $4.4 billion in this economic downturn to acquire former rival Sanyo, and the reason is that Panasonic wants to go as "green" as possible in the future. Sanyo isn't only the world's leading maker of lithium ion batteries, but also the (now former) company behind the eneloop brand, which consists of a range of eco-friendly solar products. But buying Sanyo wasn't enough for Panasonic's solar ambitions, as the company says it's now ready to invest another $1.1 billion by fiscal 2015 in its solar business segment. By that time, Panasonic aims at being among the world's top three solar cell makers. The company wants to reach the top spot among Japanese makers as early as 2012.

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  • Yamaha Japan announces 5 new electric bikes

    Yamaha Japan announces 5 new electric bikes

    Posted on January 11, 2010 | No Comments
    While electric bikes are gaining more and more ground in Japan, the situation in the rest of the world (at least for highly advanced models) is quite different. These vehicles seem to have a hard time in America in particular, although there's anecdotal evidence the concept does have the potential to catch on in the US as well - basically speaking. But most of the makers of these bikes, powerhouses such as Panasonic or Sanyo, never tested waters outside Japan. Yamaha, another such company, now announced [JP] a total of five electric bikes over the weekend, all of which are likely to never find their way outside Japan. The new models are part of Yamaha's series of PAS electric bikes.

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