Tag: cellphone

Docomo’s LTE Passes 10 Million Subscribers

NTT Docomo announced [J] today February 19, 2013 that their LTE service Xi got 10 million users yesterday, February 18, 2013. Here is a chart from their release. Docomo’s Xi began December 24, 2010. [Update] other English news Japan’s DoCoMo hits 10 million LTE subscribers, doubling its numbers in 6 months – The Next Web… Continue reading Docomo’s LTE Passes 10 Million Subscribers

The World’s First Radiation Counter Cellphone Announced In Japan

Softbank announced today(May 29) that they would ship Pantone 5(107SH) the world’s first smartphone with radiation measure feature in July. By this Sharp’s made Android 4.0 smartphone, you may measure gamma rays in the 0.05μSv/h to 9.99μSv/h range just by pressing the dedicated button for long. You may let it measure periodically and plot the… Continue reading The World’s First Radiation Counter Cellphone Announced In Japan

Japanese Carriers Begs Not To Use Cellphone For 2 Hours Around New Year’s Eve Midnight

Telecommunications Carriers Association with all 5 Japanese cellphone carriers NTT Docomo, KDDI au, Softbank Mobile, Wilcom and e-Access(who runs e-Mobile) issued release on December 21 [J], ask their users not to call or e-mail around and after the midnight of 2012’s new year’s eve. “Rabbit’s last, and dragon’s first request” line is from Chinese Zodiac,… Continue reading Japanese Carriers Begs Not To Use Cellphone For 2 Hours Around New Year’s Eve Midnight

Mobage And GuruNavi Make Wireless-Touch On Restaurants Into Social Game Items

DeNA and GuruNavi have begun their collaboration plan “GuruNavi NEW Touch Local Recipe ♪,” which links the social game “Bistro World” for Social networking service Mobage [J] with the gourmet information site “GuruNavi.” [J] “Bistro World” is a restaurant management social game where users learn menus from countries around the world and serve meals to… Continue reading Mobage And GuruNavi Make Wireless-Touch On Restaurants Into Social Game Items

Crazy Japanese Commercials For The World First Windows Phone 7.5

KDDI au, who shipped Fujitsu-Toshiba-made IS12T, the earliest shipped Windows Phone 7.5(Mango) around the world last month, made some strange commercial films. parody of TV shopping program Even if it is all in Japanese, I think you will get the point as the high-tension on the TV shopping should be universal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIz4C93i-U8 I liked the… Continue reading Crazy Japanese Commercials For The World First Windows Phone 7.5

Microsoft Dives Into Japan’s Booming Smartphone Market With World’s First Mango Smartphone And Other Key Partnerships

In a joint press conference held this morning, Microsoft, Fujitsu-Toshiba and KDDI unveiled [J] the Fujitsu-Toshiba IS12T smartphone, the world’s very first Windows Phone Mango handset hitting Japan this September only on the KDDI AU mobile network. The phone features a 3.7″ LED display, 1 Ghz Qualcomm MSM8655 CPU,  32GB internal memory, 13.2 Megapixel Camera and is both… Continue reading Microsoft Dives Into Japan’s Booming Smartphone Market With World’s First Mango Smartphone And Other Key Partnerships

Nico Nico Douga Turns Docomo Cellphone To A Remote Controller

Nico Nico Douga, Japanese popular video sharing service, released a feature phone app Nico Nico Remocon(=remote controller) [J] for Docomo feature phone. The app makes your cellphone be a controller of your playing movie on Nico Nico Douga on your PC. The app is available as a free option for premium member (over million users… Continue reading Nico Nico Douga Turns Docomo Cellphone To A Remote Controller

Docomo Opens Official Facebook Page

Docomo, Japan’s No.1 cellphone carrier, has opened an official Facebook page today. “New Smartphone Review” page introduces their latest 9 smartphones and asked users to comment. “Message Card” corner lets you send a Docomodake message card to your Facebook friends. Docomodake is a mashroom character of Docomo. No.2 KDDI au announced its alliance with Facebook… Continue reading Docomo Opens Official Facebook Page

Leaked: Not “Windows Phone 7” But “Windows 7 Phone” May Come In Summer In Japan

A blog juggly.cn reported that they got a leaked image of Fujitsu’s new 2011 summer model cellphone for Docomo, which name is LOOX F-07c, which is a dual boot cellphone with Symbian/Windows 7. It’s not “Windows Phone 7”, “Windows 7”. The reported specifications are: Windows 7/Symbian dual OS, switchable in a single action 125mm(H) x… Continue reading Leaked: Not “Windows Phone 7” But “Windows 7 Phone” May Come In Summer In Japan