The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple is meeting with Japan’s #1 (DoCoMo) and #3 (Softbank Corp.) mobile operators for the right to carry the iPhone. that is big news considering well, Japan is the world’s 2nd largest economy and has a culture geared towards gadget-obsession – and of course the iPhone has been many’s pick for gadget of the year.

Apple has had previous deals in place with SoftBank including the promotion where when you bought a cellphone you got a free iPod Mini, but DoCoMo is now said to be the first choice for such a deal that will no doubt hinge on which gave Apple a better revenue sharing percentage.

Interestingly abundant DoCoMo doesn’t have an EDGE network, so any iPhone there would have to be 3G – which makes sense anyways since I doubt the Japanese public would take a second look at an iPhone whether it only ran at EDGE speeds (whereas we by in the U.S. are used to our crappy connection speeds).

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