{"id":18902,"date":"2016-11-02T12:49:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T03:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=18902"},"modified":"2016-11-02T12:49:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T03:49:38","slug":"i-mode-cellphone-shipment-announced-to-cease-by-end-of-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/i-mode-cellphone-shipment-announced-to-cease-by-end-of-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"i-mode cellphone shipment announced to cease by end of this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NTT Docomo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nttdocomo.co.jp\/info\/notice\/page\/161102_00_m.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> today November 2, 2016 that they will end the sales of i-mode  cellphones between this month November and December.<br \/>\nNo new i-mode supported featurephone is announced so that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nttdocomo.co.jp\/product\/feature_phone\/p01h\/index.html\">P-01H<\/a>, which was released November in 2015, would be the last i-mode cellphone for regular users.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/docomo-p-01h.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/docomo-p-01h-600x414.png\" alt=\"docomo-p-01h\" width=\"600\" height=\"414\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-18903\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe announcement tells that their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nttdocomo.co.jp\/product\/easy_phone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">i-mode capable Rakuraku-phone(easy phone)<\/a> for elders, will continue to be sold.<br \/>\ni-mode Internet service began in 1999. After massive domestic success and failure of export, iPhone and Android smartphones and their app store overwrote the Docomo&#8217;s local success. Docomo says that the i-mode service itself continues. There are still a lot of i-mode cellphone users in Japan, and those fans now need to worry their cellphones becomes old and broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NTT Docomo announced today November 2, 2016 that they will end the sales of i-mode cellphones between this month November and December. No new i-mode supported featurephone is announced so that P-01H, which was released November in 2015, would be the last i-mode cellphone for regular users. The announcement tells that their i-mode capable Rakuraku-phone(easy&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/i-mode-cellphone-shipment-announced-to-cease-by-end-of-this-year\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">i-mode cellphone shipment announced to cease by end of this year<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,17],"tags":[1607,2664],"class_list":["post-18902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular-phone","category-japan","tag-i-mode","tag-ntt-docomo","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}