Wireless Japan 2007

We just returned from our trip to Wireless Japan 2007, and to say we learned a lot about the Wireless Industry would be an understatement.

Here are some pics from the event as well as pics from the Japanese All Star Game that Sophia Groups' CEO, Yuuki Iida, was kind enough to take us to.


Sophia Groups is interested in bringing Menx to Japan, and we're interested in learning more about the Japanese market. Over the course of a week we were also able to meet with a few prominent VC firms including Ant Factory.

Incorporating social networking into our devices is one of the goals of the deeda Ecosystem. Mobile social networking shouldn't be something that's done through cellphone web browsers or even Java apps. The culture of the community and its features, services and applications should be custom built into a handset. The hardware platform of the cellphone should be used as an extension of what you can accomplish in your social network. One of the firms we met with likes our approach with our deeda community but wants us to build something specifically for Mixi, Japan's largest online social network.

At this time we want to focus on the US market before being fully committed to Asia, but it's nice to know we have friends in high places when the time comes to enter the Asian market.

SoftBank, Sharp, Toshiba, Willcom, and NTT DoCoMo are just a few of the companies we got to see and learn more about. We'll unveil our plans for how we intend to be successful in this notoriously closed and difficult to enter market when the time is right.