The iPhone in Japan remains one of the worst phone experiences available on the Japanese market, on just very basic important features. "push email" is not a c

The iPhone in Japan remains one of the worst phone experiences available on the Japanese market, on just very basic important features. "push email" is not a concept here, because at least with Docomo and AU, all email already arrives on average within a minute. The iPhone (and Softbank generally) taking 15 minutes and manual checking is a joke. Signal strength is laughable. Softbank has the worst signal strength of the three major carriers, and then compared to other Softbank handsets the iPhone even gets worse reception still. Emoji support, even having been added, is not working correctly, as the moji don't look anything like the ones that other handsets use, so you have no idea what the person originally sent you. Email is not searchable, yet most japanese people use their keitai as their primary email reading device. These issues may all be entirely Softbank's fault, and nothing to do with the device, but there is no non-Softbank iPhone.