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So exactly how did you feel when you read about the quad-band 3G BlackBerry Bold coming to Japan? If you live in Japan I’m sure you grinning from ear to ear, but the rest of us felt sad and T-Mobile will be feeling a bit of that sadness. Well, to make matters more gloomy (again for the crowd outside Japan) guess what else is happening? The iPhone 3G is going to sell in Japan for FREE! That’s right, freakin’ free. Why you ask. Because the Japanese are not into it at all. So to gain their attention, SoftBank Mobile is going to offer the iPhone 3G for free. So let’s get this straight, the iPhone 3G starved crowd gets an iPhone for $99, and AT&T feels like a saint. The –i-don’t-want-to-have-anything-to-do-with-an-iPhone crowd gets free iPhones. That’s just sick. Anyway, details are that SoftBank’s “iPhone for everybody Campaign” will offer the iPhone 3G 8GB for free or the iPhone 3G 16GB for $117 to new subscribers. There is a mandatory 2-year contract (big surprise), but the iPhone data plan will run for $44.75 per month as opposed to the standard $60. So the bottom line is, new SoftBank subscribers are looking at an instant saving of around $230 on either iPhone 3G model since standard pricing is $230 for the 8GB and $350 for the 16GB. Also they’re saving over $15 each month on data. I have only one thing to say to AT&T; growl.

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