AsiaBizTech has a brief article on Skywave's VoIP software and possible supporting services which would allow us to make VoIP phone calls with our Pocket PCs by early 2003.

WindowsCE Fan has a good article about the Hitachi NPD-10JWL Pocket PC. In brief this is a business consumer targetted unit based on Windows CE.NET with a XScale PXA250 400MHz processor. Here's the Japanese article and English machine translation.

Not Japan specific, but the news on the web is that the Jornada will disappear and the iPAQ will surive as a result of the HP-Compaq merger.

Yodobashi (67,800 yen - 10% points) have the device in their online shop but no exact shipping date yet. BIC only have the e550G/MD at 99,800 yen - 10% points but they used a photograh of an older model!

The J@pan Inc. GadgetWatch newsletter mentions the Toshiba e550G in their May 9th Newsletter (a very well-written and worthwhile newsletter for Gadget freaks). As usual I've also made some posts about the device in the tpc.mobile newsgroup.