Freebit in Japan has just released a 2000 Yen a month unlimited internet SIM free smartphone.
If you plan on buying a smart phone in Japan, the plans are expensive, restrictive, and it’s almost impossible to legally get your phone unlocked. Luckily expensive Smartphone deals are a thing of the past with a Freebit Smartphone.
Here is the introduction video (In Japanese)
You need to pay extra for international calls, but you can quite easily download an app such as Skype of Line. The extra add ons are as follows.
All prices are excluding tax
The phone
Check out the website here (in Japanese)
You can find a Freebit store here
Nagoya Osu
〒460-0011
愛知県名古屋市中区大須3-38-9 大須商店街組合会館1F
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If you plan on buying a smart phone in Japan, the plans are expensive, restrictive, and it’s almost impossible to legally get your phone unlocked. Luckily expensive Smartphone deals are a thing of the past with a Freebit Smartphone.
Here is the introduction video (In Japanese)
Freebit is a relatively new company. The plans start at 2,000 Yen a month (excluding tax) for the basic plan. It includes unlimited internet access, and calls to Japanese land lines and mobiles are as follows.
Call Rates (excluding tax)
Freebit 050 | Mobile in Japan | Landline in Japan | |
Freebit 050 | Free | 21 a minute | 13 yen for 3min |
Freebit 090 | 18 for 30 sec | 18 for 30 sec | 18 for 30 sec |
You need to pay extra for international calls, but you can quite easily download an app such as Skype of Line. The extra add ons are as follows.
All prices are excluding tax
3G Service
+International services and message bank +Call waiting |
¥953
+¥350 +¥250 |
High speed internet pack | ¥250 for 100mb |
¥1,260 of calls + high speed internet pack 100mb | ¥500 |
The contract is two years and will cost
about 9,000 Yen to cancel. I signed on for a plan a week ago and their service
was reasonable. I don’t think they have an English service. Some of the staff
do speak English, but you may need a Japanese person to help you.
I was told that my first bill will be about
8,000 yen (excluding calls) but it will then be 2,000 from the month after. You
can choose to pay by credit card or bank transfer.
The call quality is the same as any regular
company, but the internet isn't very fast. Browsing the net, using Facebook,
Line and Skype are no problem, but videos seem to take a long time to load. The
website says that speeds go up to 300kb/s depending on where you are. I’m
currently getting about 30kb/s inside my home. You can purchase a high speed
internet pack, but is costs 250 Yen for every 100mb.
The phone
Freebit only sell one type of Smartphone
called PandA, which seems to be custom made in China. It’s SIM free which is
great if you want to use other SIM cards, or put in on a different plan once
you return to your home country. It’s also dual SIM so you can insert two SIM
cards at once.
It runs on Google Android which is simple and
easy to use. You can download most popular apps in the Google play store
without any problems. It also has internet tethering which I
think it great, and you can share the internet wireless connecting with your
computer and other wireless devices.
They offered me a case with the phone, but it was going to take three weeks to arrive. They had lots of cases on PandA is quite a rare phone so it seems like you can only buy one of their cases there. You can email them an image and they will custom make a case for you for 3,000 yen.
They offered me a case with the phone, but it was going to take three weeks to arrive. They had lots of cases on PandA is quite a rare phone so it seems like you can only buy one of their cases there. You can email them an image and they will custom make a case for you for 3,000 yen.
It’s currently still a small company so
there aren't many stores in Japan. You can order online but the website is all
in Japanese.
Check out the website here (in Japanese)
http://freebit.jp
You can find a Freebit store here
Nagoya Osu
〒460-0011
愛知県名古屋市中区大須3-38-9 大須商店街組合会館1F
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〒810-0001
福岡県福岡市中央区天神2-14-2 福岡証券ビル1F
福岡県福岡市中央区天神2-14-2 福岡証券ビル1F
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Kitakyushu Kokura
〒802-0006
福岡県北九州市小倉北区魚町3-2-10 ラティスビル1F
福岡県北九州市小倉北区魚町3-2-10 ラティスビル1F
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