Sony Ericsson’s latest cell phone, Victoria, in the market to also wear the Cybershot title. This super thin (only 14mm), sleek camera phone features an autofocus camera with LED photo light, and 1.9-inch QVGA display. It also comes with a 256MB M2 card and goes tri-band GSM with 2100MHz UMTS 3G for Europe. Victoria is set to be out in the 4th quarter of this year. Price unknown yet.
You can check out engadgetmobile for more info regarding this phone.
This is a little late but interesting nonetheless. I read on DoCoMo’s official site about an experiment DoCoMo is doing with 3G that entails a 300MBps speed internet line. Woot! I think that’s super fast, if not, super fast :)
TOKYO, JAPAN, July 13, 2007 — NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that this month it began testing an experimental Super 3G system for mobile communications. With this experiment, DoCoMo will seek to achieve a downlink transmission rate of 300Mbps over a high-speed wireless network.
Super 3G features low-latency data transmission and improved spectrum efficiency. It is a highly advanced version of High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and High-Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA), which have been evolved from W-CDMA packet transmission technologies standardized by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). The 3GPP, a telecommunications standards organization, is currently discussing standardization of Super 3G under the name Long Term Evolution (LTE).
DoCoMo will begin with an indoor experiment to test transmission speed using one transmitting and one receiving antenna. The company will then expand the experiment to examine downlink transmission by employing up to four Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) antennas for both the base station (transmission side) and mobile station (receiving side); the goal is to achieve a downlink transmission speed of 300Mbps. MIMO is an antenna technology for wireless communications in which different data streams are spatially multiplexed using multiple antennas for both transmission and reception on the same frequency. Also to be examined is the “handover function” — switching of the connection between two base stations.
DoCoMo will also examine the functionality of applications for voice and image transmission, games and the like, key capabilities impacting the Super 3G system’s marketability.
DoCoMo, aiming to achieve sustainable, efficient use of 3G spectrum resources, is leading the discussion over LTE. DoCoMo believes Super 3G will allow the company to make a smooth transition to 4G in the future.
In July 2006, DoCoMo began accepting proposals from suppliers seeking to develop Super 3G equipment and expects to complete development of Super 3G technology by 2009.
Tokyo, Japan, June 26, 2007 - (JCN Newswire) - NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and its eight regional subsidiaries today unveiled new discounts on two-year billing plans for families and individuals, offering substantial reductions on basic monthly charges from the first year and rising to as much as 50% in later years.The new “Fami-wari MAX” plan will enable each subscriber in a family to receive the discount rate of the longest-subscribing family member, or a maximum of 50% for subscribers who have been with DoCoMo for at least 11 years.
Applicants must subscribe to the Family Discount billing plan, which currently accounts for more than 70% of DoCoMo’s total subscribers.
I think this article would be very useful to those who have been experiencing phone problems with their network.
Niigata Quake Affects Mobile Services
Several mainstream media reports indicate the powerful earthquake which struck northern Japan on Monday has caused disruption to communications services in the country. The earthquake struck just off the coast of Niigata prefecture, the magnitude 6.8 quake registered an intensity of 6+ on Japan’s scale of 0 to 7, in three locations. As a result of the temblor major telecommunications carriers have imposed restrictions on phone calls into and out of the affected area.
NTT East Corp., the major fixed-line provider in the area, has activated its “disaster dial 171″ service that allows people in the area to leave voicemail messages that can be checked by those in the rest of the country.
The earthquake damaged 93 wireless-communications base stations operated by Softbank. The damage disrupted part of the company’s wireless services in Niigata and Nagano, said Katsuhide Furuya, a Softbank Mobile Corp. spokesman.
DoCoMo introduced a string of new handsets recently and one of them is the LG Chocolate phone. Now, if you haven’t seen the chocolate phone, i have two words to describe it - deliciously sexy. The phone is a slider phone and it comes in a sleek dark chocolate color. Check out the offer DoCoMo is offering with this handset:
If you’re going to be in Japan for a long business trip, it’s probably not as cost effective to get a NEW phone with a new plan all together, which is why i think the services offered b by Japan Handy Phone (JHP) is a pretty good one. You can rent your own cellphone with a suitable while you stay in Japan so you will always be connected to your business, family and friends.
Their rates goes according to the different plans you pick and the amount of time you need the phone for. So prices range from 3000Yen to 21,000 Yen. Just pick.
Nokia’s luxury brand, Vertu, is said to be heading for Japan shores in late 2008. From the looks of it, the vertu I mean, it looks pretty sleek to attract the Japanese prospects. Of course, cellphones are dependable gadgets by most Japanese - whether it’s to know of the weather, the stock market, the traffic news, or acting as a mobile wallet, Vertu has to live up to that.
Since the sleek design of Vertu includes a diamond on its body, it is without a doubt (in my opinion) that it will definitely appeal to the younger generations. I am sure you heard how well the phones with Austrian crystals (via SOftbank) did. Diamond? It’s every person’s best friend in this case.
This has got to be the coolest ever:
If only I knew what the model is. It says Aquos on the screen so I am going to assume it’s Sharp. Can anyone confirm that?
The summer collection of phones by au KDDI is pretty unique in all its sense as in each individual phones are different from one another. In all there are 10 phones out in their summer collection and they range from pink to orange in color as well as designs. The color themes doesn’t just ends there too, as each phones have their own color schemes as well. I think my favorite phone of the 10 is the first one, W53SA. :) The reason why is because I love it’s design. It looks like a pillow :)
Checkout their interactive and bilingual website: au KDDI Summer 2007
Looks like DoCoMo is expanding its organization by investing in a digital mapping firm. It is said that the investment costs USD3.28million for a 10.27% stake in digital mapping and location identification services company Zenrin DataCom Co Ltd, a unit of Zenrin Co Ltd. I guess DoCoMo is going to probably include a sector for auto-mapping in cars - sort of like a GPS system in the future maybe? I guess, more news will come when the transaction’s completed.
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