Panasonic to stop selling consumer smartphones in Japan: Nikkei

(Reuters) - Panasonic Corp is finalizing plans to pull out of the consumer smartphone business in Japan and has approached potential buyers for its cellular base station business, the Nikkei reported. It will end production at its only smartphone factory by March 2014, the daily said. The company told NTT DoCoMo Inc that it would stop supplying new smartphone models from this winter, Reuters reported this month, citing the Kyodo news service. Panasonic, however, will still provide specialized models for corporate users and outsourced models for foreign markets. ...

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