Posts Tagged ‘ntt-docomo’

NTT DoCoMo’s Taion Heart supports rarely-used soul-2-soul Bluetooth profile (video)

A Valediction: Technologically Assuaging Mourning As virtuous men travel mildly'away, And cling to their Taion Hearts, to goe, Whilst their Heart-equpped friends doe say, The pulse goes now, thanks, and some say, to NTT DoCoMo. So let us grip, and make no noise, No Skype calls, nor instant messages send, 'Twere illuminations of our joyes To pulsate the complementary device of our love rend. Gripping of t'heart sends light and color, Bluetooth sync reckons what it did and meant, But vibration of the other, Though greater farre, is innocent

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Panasonic Lumix Phone eyes-on (video)

Right on schedule, Panasonic's 13.2 megapixel Lumix Phone made its physical debut buried within NTT DoCoMo's CEATEC booth. And by buried, we mean locked behind plexiglass and out of reach of our own hands

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Japan chooses ISDB-Tmm over MediaFLO for new mobile TV network, KDDI pouts

Well, that wasn't much of a delay at all! Japanese regulators have apparently gone ahead and selected NTT DoCoMo's proposal for Japan's next-gen mobile TV network scheduled to go live in 2012 -- ISDB-Tmm, an evolution of the country's existing one-seg technology -- over the MediaFLO-based solution floated by competitor KDDI. Considering that KDDI is tied up in CDMA / EV-DO, it's little wonder they were pushing MediaFLO, a product of CDMA patron saint Qualcomm -- but it's a moot point now that the license is going to DoCoMo's broadcasting consortium

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Japan holds off on choosing tech for next-gen mobile TV

We'd surmise that neither Europe nor the Americas are anywhere close to worrying about a next-generation mobile TV standard, since virtually no carrier has managed to monetize the standards they've already adopted -- but things work a little differently in Japan where one-seg tuners are offered on nearly every portable device with a screen that's sold. A refinement of the existing ISDB-T technology designed to take advantage of the analog TV shutdown, ISDB-Tmm, had been pushed by NTT DoCoMo, while competitor KDDI -- the country's main CDMA operator -- had wanted to adopt Qualcomm's MediaFLO in a regulatory decision originally scheduled to be made by the middle of this month, but the government has apparently decided to hold off in the hopes that the two sides can work together on a mutually beneficial standard

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NTT DoCoMo announces ‘Xi’ brand for LTE, somehow pronounced ‘crossy’

You're probably thinking "chi" or "zee," right? Nope: NTT DoCoMo has laid down the law in its press release touting the LTE service it'll be launching later this year, and it turns out that "Xi" -- in this case, anyway -- is pronounced "crossy." Of course, ultimately, they can call it whatever they like -- it's the service itself that matters, and to that end, we can expect downlink speeds up to a positively blistering 75Mbps, rolling out first in Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya in December followed by "other major cities and then additional areas of the nation." DoCoMo's accounting for handoffs, too, so you won't be dropped (theoretically) when you move between Xi and FOMA areas

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NTT DoCoMo handsets going entirely unlocked next year

Responding to a government request -- a request, not a mandate -- to let customers take their phones wherever they like, Japan's juggernaut NTT DoCoMo has announced that it'll be selling all of its phones fully SIM-unlocked starting with devices launching next April. It seems DoCoMo's moved is primarily targeted at putting pressure on rival SoftBank (which offers the iPhone 4 exclusively) to do the same, since it's been unwilling to make the move so far

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China Unicom profits down 50 percent, NTT DoCoMo up by the same margin

Call it proof that there's a global wireless karma equilibrium, if you will, that needs to be maintained: China Unicom has warned that its net profit for 2009 will be down a whopping 50 percent, while one of its doppelgangers across the Sea of Japan -- NTT DoCoMo -- has encountered exactly the opposite fortune on news that it has posted a 48 percent year-over-year improvement in black ink.

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Something for everyone with NTT DoCoMo's new mobile phones

Japan's biggest mobile phone operator, NTT DoCoMo, has unveiled a raft of new phones – 19 in all – along with a 3G-capable digital photo frame, so...

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Nissan licenses self-healing paint for mobile phones

Nissan has licensed its self-healing paint to Japan's major Telco, NTT DoCoMo, which will use Scratch Shield mobile phones as a value-add featu...

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NTT DoCoMo Develops Mobile Phone Prototype Using Surplus Wood …

NTT DoCoMo has developed the mobile phone prototype made with the surplus wood of trees culled during thinning operations to maintain healthy forests. The.

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