TOKYO-J-Phone, a Vodafone Group company in Japan, announced the number of users of its popular picture phone service exceeded 6 million as of the end of July. The service, known as “sha-mail” (sha means “take a picture” in Japanese), is winning popularity.
The number of users of sha-mail reached 4 million in March and 5 million in May. That means the service has won 1 million new users every two months.
As part of its effort to ride on the big boom of “sha-mail,” rival NTT DoCoMo launched handsets with cameras in June, and KDDI launched a similar handset in April.
