Unless you pay a lot of attention to mobile phone news, you usually don’t hear about some of the advanced phones that Japanese and Korean consumers have access to in their countries. We’re talking about VGA-screened phones with GPS, Digital TV tuners, megapixel cameras, and the whole nine yards.

But it appears that recently someone discovered a way to get the iPhone to work on any cellphone network, and it was really only a matter of time before that happened. Although you won’t have access to Visual Voicemail, I guess that the rest of the phone’s functions work perfectly.

And as a publisher who focuses on new technology, I find it amazing that I’m seeing the Japanese so interested in a product which was created outside of their country, especially in the cellphone market, considering the great products that they have over there.