Vodafone-branded Sharp 705SH, 904SH, 905SH production stopped

Originally Posted by shungo

i think the vodafone branded are nice than the softbank one
just the name lol

Originally Posted by angel_wing0

btw what happened to vodafone jp? did they get takeover by softbank or something? yes i didnt heard anything about it..someone pls tell me

Originally Posted by Junglizt1210

yah Softbank bought them out and have plans to compltely turn the tables and make VOdafone into a sucess story like it was several years ago. It's going to be called Softbank as from October, however the changes are happening.... fast.... perhaps a little too fast and faster than some of us anticipated, but the change is here, whether we like it or not, for the good or bad, Softbank is here to stay, and if they can do a good job turning the company around, then I'd say: Go for it!!

For years, Vodafone was one of the foreign owned companies in Japan that did well, but as you know, it's demise was due to it's poor features in handsets (although us westerners still loved them), as well as crappy coverage. Another reason was, and still is, is that DoCoMo and Au by KDDI have the monopolies over Vodafone, and it's like a whole "i can't get through to him because he's on Vodafone" or something like that as I read a year ago off a news article or somewhere, this might be referring to their mail standards not being able to be passed from one provider or anothr, this might ahve changed, I can't rememebr where I read that or what it was about, so take it as a grain of salt or however that line with the salt goes.

Originally Posted by angel_wing0

btw what happened to vodafone jp? did they get takeover by softbank or something? yes i didnt heard anything about it..someone pls tell me

Originally Posted by AL9999

Only two I've been able to find on the net:

Originally Posted by AL9999

Only two I've been able to find on the net:

Originally Posted by Junglizt1210

PICTURES please of the shops (perhaps taken with some of your Sharp phones )

Originally Posted by valerossi

lol Junglizt1210



angel_wing0, most people are not familiar with the name SoftBank, but this company is bigger than most people think... they're ranked #5 this year in InfoTech 100 Companies... They also own Yahoo Japan...

http://www.businessweek.com/it100/2006/5.htm

Originally Posted by faisalarya

Just take a look at rebranded model of V705SH which becoming SoftBank 705SH... The circle vodafone live symbol has replaced by yahoo's logo (Y!) ...

Originally Posted by valerossi

lol Junglizt1210



angel_wing0, most people are not familiar with the name SoftBank, but this company is bigger than most people think... they're ranked #5 this year in InfoTech 100 Companies... They also own Yahoo Japan...

http://www.businessweek.com/it100/2006/5.htm

Originally Posted by yangj08

Is this just for Vodafone Japan? I mean it wouldn't be THAT bad if the rest of the world's Vodafones turned into SoftBanks (and certainly would help Yahoo get more attention), but I'm not quite sure.

Originally Posted by Shion Uzuki

I'm actually afraid that after this Softbank rebranding, their phones will not be carried by Vodafone around the world (at least some of it... like 903 in HK, etc...)

I hope they don't drop GSM too...