"Docomo are selling Micro-sim plans from the 1st April   http://www.nttdocomo.com/pr/2011/001514.html   Its worth looking into"

"I bet they would send the gigantic bill first .. you know they do when they discover your using a non softbank iPhone"

"Unlikely I'm going to buying a iPad 2 anyways if I had the need too I could easily ask one of my friends in the US or UK (uhg 20pct Vat)  but I feel no urgent rush to go and buy one as I'm still using my old ipad But if the 3G…"

"If they are waiting for Fukushima Daiichi to be resolved before releasing the ipad/iphone here we may well have to get the ipad 3 and the iphone 6 That place will be a festering sore for more than a few months .. Tepco management should be taken out…"

"The new iphone 5 "may" have NFC baked in but there maybe hope for other non NFC phones (ie iphone) as a company is making SIM cards with embedded…"

"Why bother softbanks service is so piss poor last time I used the MyWi connection the web was so slow it was unusable I like my iPhone but softbank's service is a joke and a bad one at that.   Even before the quake i was seeing a lot of…"

"True, that.  However- NTT gouges its users.  au and Softbank are almost dead even on price subsidies and pricing plans, and au is just a tick less than NTT in terms of coverage.   With every overpriced NTT bill, I think the users are…"

"Hell if DoCoMo had a sane plan for 3rd party smartphones I would jump ship and get a iphone from HK"

"I don't know I think that I would like a  phone network that I can use than a useless one I can't 4200 Yen for a service you can't use is 4,200 wasted !!   The softbank network is piss poor I always get Call fails in my…"

"Hmm. NTT has 2 data plans- one for 5460 yen/month, and another tiered plan that maxes out at 5985 yen/month. Softbank charges 4200 for all you can eat. I feel sorry for Galaxy tab users... Well, not really..."

"Fantastic! In the long run, the cost of the replacement phone costs Apple nothing compared to the customer satisfaction that they've ensured.   Sorry to hear the replacement phone is acting up, though. Hope that gets taken care of, too!"

"Great to hear!  Be sure to give the Genius good feedback when the Apple Store email questionnaire pops up in your inbox in a couple of days."

"Went to the Apple store last night and spoke to the genius staff who very kindly swapped my iPhone for no cost since i hadn't done anything thing like that before..   Basically I was honest and easy going  (already resigned to pay the…"

"I have pretty much resigned myself to paying the 22,800 I do know of the staff in the Apple store ( used to work with him) But was my fault so I don't really know if I want to travel that route if you know what I mean ...."

"Yes, 22,800. If you have to do it, it might be worth it to try and get the replacement iPhone at an Apple Store, instead of Softbank.  Just be honest, look crestfallen, and maybe, just maybe, an Apple genius might be willing to give you a…"