Japan's Docomo To Sell LG's Optimus Pad This Thursday For $980
Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo today announced [press release in English] that LG’s 3D-capable Optimus Pad will go on sale in the country as early as this Thursday. That means that the...
View ArticleIs Fujitsu Prepping A Symbian/Windows 7 Dual Boot Cell Phone?
Take this with a grain of salt: Japanese tech blog Juggly is reporting [JP] that Fujitsu is working on a cell phone with both the Symbian and Windows 7 OS (not Windows Phone) on board. According to...
View ArticleNTT Docomo Partners With Twitter For New Location-Based Service In Japan
Japan's biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo today announced it will develop with Twitter a set of new mobile services for its domestic customer base of 58 million. Under the deal, Docomo plans to...
View ArticleLOOX F-07C: Fujitsu's Symbian/Windows 7 Dual Boot Cell Phone Unveiled
It turns out the leak we blogged last month is true: Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo today officially introduced the Fujitsu LOOX F-07C as part of its summer line-up, and the device actually...
View ArticleNTT Docomo's Smartphone Line-Up For Summer 2011
Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo has announced its summer line-up of cell phones today, and we have squeezed all their nine new smartphones (plus Fujitsu’s Windows 7/Symbian hybrid) into this...
View ArticleNTT Docomo's Feature Phone Line-Up For Summer 2011
We covered NTT Docomo‘s smartphone line-up for this summer here, but Japan’s leading mobile carrier also revealed 11 new feature phones today. And here are all of them listed up. Sharp SH-11C...
View ArticleVideo: NTT Docomo's Mobile, Simultaneous Translation System
The idea of translating spoken language from cell phone to cell phone isn’t exactly new, but the mobile simultaneous translation system NTT Docomo is currently working on looks really impressive....
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Fujitsu’s Waterproof LTE F-01D Android Tablet To Land In Japan Next Month
Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo is stepping up its efforts to bring Xi, its LTE service, to the masses: today, the company announced two tablets that are compatible with the standard for the...
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NTT Docomo’s Cases Make Smartphones Measure Radiation, Body Fat, Alcohol
Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo unveiled a few pretty interesting smartphone add-ons today. Perhaps most notable are a set of special cases the company developed to not provide extra...
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Orange To Bring Sharp 3D Android Phone To Asia And Europe
Is this finally the beginning of Japanese Android phones being made available outside their home market? Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo yesterday announced it has inked a deal with French...
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5 Product Innovations From CEATEC 2011 In Japan (Video Gallery)
Truth be told, I wasn’t very impressed with what electronics makers showed at the CEATEC 2011 tech exhibition – especially because a lot of the new products were “leaked” to the Japanese press before...
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Video: NTT Docomo Shows Japanese/English Real-Time Translation Service For...
Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo has developed a real-time Japanese <-> English translation service for mobile phones, the first of its kind. The way it works is that you speak something...
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NEC MEDIAS PP: Waterproof Android Phone With 4-Inch OLED Screen, 1700mAh...
Japanese mobile carrier NTT Docomo has announced [JP] it will start offering the Medias PP N-01D on December 9, the latest Android phone in NEC’s Medias smartphone series. And if NEC ever gets its act...
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LG’s Optimus LTE Android Phone Goes On Sale In Japan
Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo has introduced LG’s awesome Optimus Android phone in Japan yesterday. It’s compatible to Docomo’s 4G service Xi and follows the launch of the handset in Korea...
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Japan’s Top 3 Mobile Carriers Agree To Support Global NFC Standard
Japan, one of the most advanced mobile nations in the world, doesn’t want to be a “cell phone Galapagos” anymore, at least when it comes to payments over NFC. Paying with cell phones is already...
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5 Japanese Tech Companies (And Samsung) Set Up LTE Mobile Chip Venture
Big news from Asia’s mobile market today: Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo (55 million customers, over US$50 billion in sales per year) is teaming up with five other tech powerhouses to...
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Fujitsu Japan Rolls Out 2 “Girls-Only” Cell Phones
Do women need special cell phones? Certain companies, such as Deutsche Telekom or Samsung, seem to think so. Now Fujitsu Japan is ready to roll out [JP] not one but two handsets specifically designed...
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Disney, Q-pot Choco, Honey Bee: Japan Gets 3 Extra-Cute Android Phones
Android adoption is growing rapidly in Japan, with local handset manufacturers doing everything they can in order to meet the demands of customers in all segments of the population. One particularly...
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MEDIAS ES N-05D: NEC’s New Android Phone Is 6.7mm Thin, Connects To Casio’s...
NEC did it again: about 11 months after unveiling the world’s slimmest smartphone at that time, the company is ready to release another super-thin Android phone with a set of impressive specs (via...
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Japan’s NTT Docomo Launches $125M Incubator Fund And Program To Accelerate...
Good news for Japanese startups: Japan’s largest mobile carrier, NTT Docomo, has announced a $125 million (¥10 billion) investment fund and incubator program for smartphone and tablet related startups...
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