Gizmodo Japan: Music Porter
According to Japanese mobile phone providers, 2005 is the year of music, a point that is made clear in almost all of their recent promotional campaigns. Most of the new models that are supposedly music ready haven t played around with form much, but Docomo s Music Porter does something different. Sure, it looks like…
Gizmodo Japan: Sony Ericsson Premini-II
Sony Ericsson made a big splash with the launch of the Premini, even using Daft Punk to push the sleekness and futurist characteristics that made it a hit—well, that and the fact that it s so tiny. They followed up with the Premini-S, which just remixed the colors a bit, and lacked any real improvements…
Gizmodo Japan: AU by KDDI Stores
AU is already associated with cool design, something we ve seen through their “design project,” and resulting in Naoto Fukusawa s Infobar, Marc Newson s Talby, and more recently with Makoto Saito s Penck. Not content with simply providing us with beautiful mobile devices, the company has recently overhauled their service shops throughout Tokyo, giving…