As Japan is one of the largest Apple market, Steve Jobs finds out big opportunity for iPhone to be brought in. Seems the idea will come true in near future. Apple seeks for partner in either DoCoMo or Softbank.

Posted by Amir Karimuddin on December 19th, 2007 1 Comment »

For those using DoCoMo and SoftBank network, no need to worry when talking with low battery. Strapya offers really unique - yet very useful - portable battery [in Japanese]. What, portable battery? Not portable charger?

Posted by Amir Karimuddin on December 12th, 2007 No Comments »

Japan biggest telecom company, DoCoMo, in coordination with electronic manufacturer, Fujitsu, launch brand new cellphone for kids, F801i. The F801i comes in a series of bright colors and includes other kid-friendly features like access to online gaming. The phone is specifically designed to help keep kids safe.

Posted by Amir Karimuddin on December 10th, 2007 No Comments »

Can Gphone beat iPhone? It's too early to answer it. No Google phone exists yet, but the search giant already announced an open platform for mobile-phone apps. Read the-almost-complete FAQ about the Android, the Google phone, and the Open Handset Alliance provided by PCWorld here.

Posted by Budi Putra on November 6th, 2007 3 Comments »

The press conference held by NTT DoCoMo revealed the drop in net profit compared to last year result. Due to the price war with its competitor, KDDI and SoftBank, the company revised its sales forecast for the full year.

Posted by Amir Karimuddin on October 29th, 2007 No Comments »

Vietnam, as the second fastest growing telecom market in ASEAN, has been a 'hot' point in the region for foreign investors. The statistics show that over 40 million people have access to the telephone and 17 percent of its population currently use the Internet.

Posted by Budi Putra on September 21st, 2007 No Comments »

Cellular-news.com keeps a counter to track which news articles are of most interest to you, the readers. As an end-of-year idea, below are the most popular stories published on cellular-news as read by yourselves over the past year, in order of popularity.

Posted by Budi Putra on January 2nd, 2007 2 Comments »

If you have to spend your time in deep sea, don't worry, you still can connect to the world, even send your great and exclusive picture to your family members live from the surface using 3G network! While you can’t go deep sea diving with this thing and send off a huge picture and/or video files to your compatriots on dry land, the new SO902WP+ from Sony Ericsson is able to survive for up to half an hour in a metre-deep of water. Available now through the DoCoMo people in Japan, the SO902WP+ is basically an upgrade of sorts to the previously released SO902i. [3G!] Source

Posted by Budi Putra on May 21st, 2006 No Comments »

NTT DoCoMo and its eight regional subsidiaries have announced the newly developed 3G FOMA SA702i and SO702i handsets, the latest additions to the FOMA 702i series. Like other 702i handsets, the two models offer regular FOMA features such as videophone and Deco-mail, and also i-channel, which automatically delivers news, weather, entertainment, sports and horoscopes via teletype to the standby screen. Japan's premier mobile communications company, NTT DoCoMo, provides wireless voice and data communications to tens of millions of subscribers. NTT DoCoMo is the creator of W-CDMA technology called FOMA, the new de facto global industry standard, as well as the groundbreaking mobile i-mode service. [3G!]

Posted by Budi Putra on May 15th, 2006 No Comments »

The third generation (3G) providers in Japan have came to "open war" now. In facing the fast growing of the rival KDDI with CDMA2000 1xEV-DO and BREW platform, NTT DoCoMo chooses Windows Media to support their W-CDMA handset. Japan's premier mobile communications company, NTT DoCoMo, provides wireless voice and data communications to tens of millions of subscribers. NTT DoCoMo is the creator of W-CDMA technology, the new de facto global industry standard, as well as the groundbreaking mobile i-mode service. NTT DoCoMo is collaborating with Microsoft to incorporate Windows Media in its 3G wireless phones. The companies announced Thursday that Windows Media Audio and Digital Rights Management 10 would be used in the F902iS handset NTT will release ...

Posted by Budi Putra on May 12th, 2006 1 Comment »