Galápagos syndrome (ガラパゴス化, Garapagosu-ka, / Galápagos effect) is a term of Japanese origin used in business studies to refer to an isolated development branch of a globally …

May 19, 2014 · Glorious, folding forefather to the smartphone, and the form-factor that gave birth to gara-kei, a shorthand phrase for "Galapagos phones". It's a negative term pointing to …

Jan 6, 2013 · Nowadays, Japan-made flip open old-fashioned cell-phones are referred to as gara-kei. It’s short for Galapagos + keitaidenwa (携帯電話/cell-phones). It’s also verbal short-hand …

Oct 13, 2023 · Nowadays, though, gara kei have all but vanished from Japan as well. But for those feeling flip phone nostalgia for an era that comparatively wasn’t all that long ago, Tokyo …

Mar 13, 2015 · I live in Japan (Hi!), and people here still carry a torch for the feature phone -- or at least, their version of it, the gara-kei, short for Galapagos keitai. ("Galapagos" refers to Japan's...

Mar 8, 2015 · About half of people with cellphone contracts in Japan use gara-kei, which means “Galapagos phone” — a nod to how they have evolved for a peculiarly Japanese market. The …

May 17, 2015 · About half of people with cellphone contracts in Japan use gara-kei, which means “Galapagos phone” — a nod to how they have evolved for a peculiarly Japanese market. The …

May 19, 2014 · Glorious, folding forefather to the smartphone, and the form-factor that gave birth to gara-kei, a shorthand phrase for “Galapagos phones”. It’s a negative term pointing to …

Jun 8, 2015 · Such is the garakei, or Galapagos Phone, a compound word from the words Galapagos and Keitai Denwa (携帯電話) used to describe the Japanese flip phone. These …

Dec 20, 2017 · Gara-Kei is the name people use in Japan to describe non-smartphone type cellular phones. Why is it called Gara-Kei? Gara is a shor for "Galapagos" Kei is a short for …