Panasonic to stop selling consumer smartphones in Japan: Nikkei

(Reuters) – Panasonic Corp is finalizing plans to tug out of the patron smartphone trade in Japan and has approached doable consumers for its cellular base station industry, the Nikkei said. It will finish manufacturing at its handiest smartphone factory by March 2014, the day-to-day said. The corporate advised NTT DoCoMo Inc that it would stop providing new smartphone fashions from this wintry weather, Reuters stated this month, citing the Kyodo information carrier. Panasonic, however, will nonetheless provide specialised fashions for company customers and outsourced fashions for overseas markets. …