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iPad 3G SIM-locked to Softbank in Japan

in Mobile on May 10, 2010 at 4:59 am PT

When Apple CEO Steve Jobs first uncrated the iPad in January, he said the 3G version of the device would ship unlocked outside the United States so it could be used with any carrier willing to manufacture a GSM micro-SIM card for it. Today, this no longer appears to be the case–at least in Japan.

Mass hIsteria?

in News on July 11, 2008 at 5:00 am PT

Apple’s iPhone 3G arrived in stores today and was met by lines of enthusiastic buyers–dauntingly long lines. At Softbank Mobile’s flagship store in Omotesando, Tokyo, where iPhone monomaniacs first began camping out three days ago, the queue stretched for a half mile.