All About Mobile Phone (Free subscription) | yesterday
According to 3G week, these rendered shots are what appears to be a full touchscreen Sony Ericsson device. The phone is coded as SO-01A (or SO907i).
Know More Media (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Google thinks it can do a better job with cell phones than anyone else in Japan. Yeah, fat chance with that. Maybe Google thinks the Go- like in Godzilla is enough for the company to do its damage in Tokyo and beyond. Yeah, fat chance with that, too. NTT DoCoMo will offer at least one Google Android smartphone [...]
UberPhones (Free subscription) | yesterday
Folks in Japan look like they’ll be getting this cool looking Sony Ericsson SO-01A via NTT DoCoMo. One look at it and it has that kind of “you’ll never get this outside of Japan” look, which will probably be true. Details on the phone are a little sketchy at the moment, and what information we’ve managed to dig up are courtesy of Google Translator. It seems like the phone will have a full touchscreen...
MobileTechNews (Free subscription) | yesterday
ROA's latest wireless industry report projects Japanese mobile penetration rate to reach 95.4% by 2011.
SlashPhone (Free subscription) | yesterday
NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s largest mobile operator, unveils its new phones called SO-01A (or SO907i). Created by Sony Ericsson, seems this phone has both physical and virtual keypad - yeah meaning that it’s a touchscreen phone. There are no further information regarding its specifications and features but we can take a look at pictures in this page [...]
Unwired View (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
RIM might have went official with the sleek BlackBerry Storm, but that doesn’t mean its other smartphones have to be neglected. Especially if we talk about BlackBery Bold, which is by no means a device to overlook. The Bold was announced today for a release via Taiwan Mobile, starting early November. The keyboard of this Bold for [...]
CScout TrendBlog (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
A combination of factors underpins rapid growth in the Chinese mobile commerce sector. Trend Description China is rapidly emerging as the global capital of m-commerce applications, driven by an increasingly high-tech digital environment, the world’s largest mobile phone subscriber base (nearly 600 million), and the recent launch of the country’s own 3G standard (TD-SCDMA). Although China currently...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Tokyo, Oct. 7 (Jiji Press)--Softbank Mobile Corp. remained in the top spot in net mobile phone subscription growth for the third straight half year in April-September, industry data showed Tuesday. The unit of Internet and telecommunications conglomerate Softbank Corp.
I.Z. Reloaded: Online Refreshments (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
At Createc Japan 2008, NTT DoCoMo exhibited its prototype mobile phone that can be split into two - the operation part and the display! Both parts of the handset known as Separate Keitai , can be used seperately. For example, you can make a call while reading an e-mail or checking a schedule or you can use the display as a music player while the operation part is kept in your bag.
Wireless Federation (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Softbank Mobile, Japan’s largest mobile operator, adds new subscribers more than it’s rivals for the 17th consecutive month. Softbank provides it’s subscribers with low call rates and agressively running marketing campaigns and also brings in Apple iPhone. The mobile operator added 142,800 new subscribers for the month of September, lagging behind were NTT DoCoMo with [...]
Phones Review (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Research in Motion (RIMM) is set to take a massive chunk of the Japanese market through Japans No. 1 carrier NTT DoCoMO from early 2009 with its high end BlackBerry Bold. BlackBerry are already launching new smartphones around the world with the BlackBerry Peal flip reported to be coming onto T-Mobile, the BlackBerry Curve 8320 [...]
CrunchGear (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Japan’s biggest cell phone carrier NTT Docomo had one of the coolest booths at this year’s CEATEC (which ended last Saturday), showcasing a lot of spectacular new stuff. These are their cell phone concepts, some of which even might make it to the mass market one day. Watch a video of their microprojector cell-phone hybrid here [...]
The Mobile Phone Review (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
CEATEC 2008, Japan, seems to be the perfect place to get in touch with world’s latest inventions in technology. The event is highly expected worldwide because it gives manufacturers the chance to reveal the results of their work and receive answers from participants. NTT Docomo Inc amazed the public by introducing a concept cell phone that doesn’t follow the rules of cell phones as we have known
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
A Japanese parent blogs about their daughter's experience getting her first mobile phone [ja], and the problems involved: the dangers of dating and porn sites, misunderstandings in communication, and constant interruptions during study time. The blogger relates the social distance created by these phones to the shift from traditional sushi restaurants to conveyor-belt sushi, where [...]
News at About Projectors (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
NTT DoCoMo Inc has really made an impression last week at the CEATEC trade show. Their prototype projector phone features HVGA (480 x 320) resolution and uses three LED lights to produce 7.5 ANSI lumens. Recently footage has been released showing the projector phone in action. The phone is shown displaying an image between 20 [...]
