Japanese Consortium Looking To New Mobile Platform For Symbian And Linux Smartphones

It seems that at least six Japanese companies, which include NTT DoCoMo, Renesas Electronics, Fujitsu, NEC, Panasonic Mobile and Sharp, have teamed up to come up with a new mobile application platform which will target Symbian and Linux mobile operating systems. The reason behind the collaboration isn’t entirely clear at the moment, but whether you [...]

Apple Files For Smart Device Covers Patent

Apple has filed a rather interesting patent, which considers the possibility of putting additional covers on your device to give it additional features, which seems like a similar vein with the NTT DoCoMo F04B cell phone. Various covers were considered in the patent, such as force sensors (no, not Star Wars), a solar grid, protection, [...]

Japanese Acer Aspire One 532h Gets 3G

While it doesn’t look like the Acer Aspire One 532h will be getting a matte display like the folks by in Germany, but it does offer another, possibly more useful, feature. We’re talking about built-in 3G via NTT DoCoMo’s FOMA service. It’ll be going on sale from April 16th at DoCoMo’s online store for 50,000 [...]

Japanese Government To Review Japan’s SIM Lock System

Those of you who have travelled to Japan before will probably know of the SIM locks that they use by there. Basically the carriers (NTT DoCoMo, KDDI, Softbank) don’t allow users to use other handsets from rival networks. So you won’t be able to take a SIM card from telco A and pop it into [...]

NTT DoCoMo Releases Some Cool F-04B Cell Phone Ads

Do you remember the F-04B modular cell phone that we covered a while back? Well, NTT DoCoMo has come up with some rather cool video ads for the phone, showcasing a modular projector add-on, as well as using a modular GPS add-on. Check out the video after the jump. Permalink: NTT DoCoMo Releases Some Cool [...]

Eye-controlled earphones

Forget about using your fingers to control the volume of your earphones, alongside a change in tracks. NTT DoCoMo demonstrated their new eye-controlled earphones at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. All eye movement is detected by electrodes, enabling users to send commands to their device where among them include play, pause, and skip. [...]

NTT DoCoMo SH-05B cellphone targets teens

Is the pink color a type of curse where it magically draws the attention of most females like moths to a flame? Perhaps NTT DoCoMo thinks so, with their pink colored SH-05B FOMA clamshell handset that was released in conjunction with “Seventeen” magazine, hitting the markets in a few days’ day, where you can choose [...]

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