iPhone 4S launched in Japan

iPhone 4S launched in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - A customer in a mask resembling the late Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs waits for the iPhone 4S launch in front of an Apple store in Tokyo's Ginza district on Oct. 14, 2011. Softbank Mobile Corp. and KDDI Corp. began selling the new version of the Apple smartphone in Japan the same day, starting a fierce competition by the two rival mobile phone operators to chase market leader NTT Docomo Inc. (Kyodo)

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