CES stands for Consumer Electronics Show. Dan Meyer is the Managing Editor of RCR Wireless news and he is abotu to be interviewed on his views on consumerism in the electronics industry. Interesting one:

International roaming used to be a novelty when it was enabled a few years back. It used to be pretty expensive and it is still today to have a phone package that roams worldwide. NTT Docomo is giving a discount on their Videophone/packet International Roaming service, which means you can have video calls internationally for a significantly reduced price!

TOKYO, JAPAN, June 21, 2007 — NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and its eight regional subsidiaries today announced that they will offer WORLD WING™ international roaming subscribers a 20% discount on videophone and packet communications over the networks of Conexus Mobile Alliance partners from July 1 to September 30, 2007.

This will be DoCoMo’s first discount plan for roaming services. Other alliance members are also launching roaming discount plans for their respective customers in Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Macau, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.

The discount applies to all outgoing videophone calls, regardless of destination, but not to incoming videophone calls. Videophone services are not yet available in India and Macau at this time.

The discount does not apply to the minimum packet-communications fee of 50 yen for the first 50 packets.

The Conexus Mobile Alliance was formed in April 2006 to mutually enhance international roaming services not only in its members’ respective countries/territories, but the broader Asia-Pacific region as well. The current members are Far EasTone Telecommunications Co., Ltd. (Taiwan); Hutchison Essar Limited (India); Hutchison Telecommunications (Hong Kong) Limited (Hong Kong and Macau); KT Freetel Co., Ltd. (South Korea); PT Indosat Tbk (Indonesia); Smart Communications, Inc.(Philippines); StarHub Ltd (Singapore); and NTT DoCoMo, Inc. (Japan). Backed by the strength of the alliance, DoCoMo will continue to develop services that offer customers increased convenience and flexibility for international roaming.

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This is a commercial with Anna Tsuchiya for NEC’s FOMA cellphone. It’s a sleek looking flip phone – i’d go as far to say that it’s rather big but if not too small it wouldn’t have all the frills and functions that makes it a rave anyway:

It’s a little delayed by it’s very interesting nonetheless.

First there was HTC Titan Mogul:
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Now, HTC has recently announced that HTC Titan II (HTC TyTN II) for eMobile will be released on the 28th of March.

The HTC TyTN II will be the first device from eMobile supporting broadband voice services and this handset is the eighth model, including designs scheduled for future release, from the HTC lineup to appear in Japan.

Wireless Watch Japan

Check out this hilarious clip:

The guy gives a short intro on the phone as well.

Multiple leading companies from South Korea, a leading nation in broadband technology that is charging ahead of others for expansion in the Japanese WiMAX market, held an exhibit in Shinagawa Tokyo to showcase their products and technological collaborations.

WiBro is an abbreviation for Wireless Broadband and is the unique service name for the WiMAX standard used by South Korea.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications announced that two companies in Japan will acquire WiMAX licensing sometime in 2007.

What will the impact be from the expansion in the Japanese market by leading companies from South Korea that deal with WiBro related products? Japan is a highly mobile society, so WiMAX will likely be of keen interest to those living in Japan because it enables high speed internet access “any time, any place”.

Cool, now you can buy Wii Points from your cellphone by the middle of this month or NOW. Check out the press release by KDDI here…

In the middle of December, you will be able in Japan to purchase Wii Points directly from your mobile phone, without needing any credit card. Simply put, from your mobile phone you will have the possibility to add Wii points to your account (1000, 2000 or 3000 Yen), without the need of using a credit card; the amount you choose will be later on added to your mobile phone monthly bill. Simple and painless !

Via Akihabaranews.

Here’s another method of using the Bluetooth. Japanese engineers are not stopping at cellphones only, they’re making wireless controlled robots too…