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Internet Mobile Phone Rental
Need an Internet-mobile phone for your trip to Japan or Korea? Order online now and have your handset delivered to in the USA or in Japan/Korea in time for your arrival in Japan or Korea! Find out more...
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> 43.027m |
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EZWeb |
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> 17.526m |
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J-Sky |
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> 13.002m |
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PHS |
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> 2.956m |
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> 73.555m | |
Japanese 3G Subscribers
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Au 3G: |
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> 16.829m |
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FOMA: |
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> 8.499m |
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J-Phone 3G: |
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> 0.366m |
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TOTAL |
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> 25.694m | |
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Updated 1/14/2005 |
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News of Sunday, April 03, 2005
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M’shita Tops in Japan Cellphone Market in Q4-IDC
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(4/3/2005) Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., maker of Panasonic brand products, held the top spot in Japan’s mobile phone market for the second straight quarter in October-December, research firm IDC said on Tuesday. Matsushita accounted for 15.5 percent of 10.86 million handsets shipped in the domestic market in the final quarter of 2004, surpassing NEC Corp.’s 15.2 percent share on the back of its popular third-generation phones for NTT DoCoMo Inc. Sharp Corp. was the number three cellphone maker in the domestic market with a 13.5 percent share. For the whole of 2004, however, NEC held onto the top spot with a 17 percent share. Sharp notched up its ranking from third place to second, replacing Matsushita, as its high-resolution display panels lured customers, IDC said. Domestic shipments in 2004 fell 13.5 percent from a year earlier to 44.02 million units with delays in the launch of 3G phones denting replacement demand. (Reuters)
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News of Friday, March 04, 2005
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Mobile stunners top 10 stormed by Sprint and 3
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(3/4/2005) Analysts have picked their top performers in the mobile space - and turned up some surprise winners across the world of wireless. While cutting edge 3G content and service providers get the nod in the The World’s Top Ten Wireless Services report from research firm Analysys, the top spot goes to an old-school voice service. The report names Sprint PCS’ voice bundles as the number one wireless service. By September 2004, Sprint was clocking up annual ARPU of some $700 - almost twice what Western European operators were making in the corresponding period. Japanese ringtone provider Xing also made the top 10 for its innovative services - including karaoke downloads and a facility that lets will rip customers’ favourite tune from a CD to a ringtone. The top 10 services were picked for their "potential to help operators make progress", Brydon said - for their market potential, how well the service has been implemented and their suitability for reproduction in the wider market.
The top 10 were:
1. Bundled voice tariffs, Sprint PCS, USA
2. ThreePay prepaid tariffs, 3, UK
3. Mobile TV and video, 3, UK
4. SMS, O2, Ireland
5. FOMA 3G service bundle, NTT DoCoMo, Japan
6. Vodafone live! service bundle, Vodafone, Western Europe
7. TM3 integrated 2.5G/3G/PWLAN, T-Mobile, Germany
8. Ringtone downloads, Xing, Japan
9. Games downloads, IN-FUSIO, worldwide
10. Genion HomeZone tariff, O2, Germany. (Silicon.com)
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News of Monday, February 28, 2005
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Omron Produces Face Recognition for Mobile Phones
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(2/28/2005) OMRON has announced face recognition technology which can be implemented in PDAs, mobile phones or other mobile devices with a camera function, dubbed the "OKAO Vision Face Recognition Sensor." According to Omron, mobile devices are carrying ever more personal information including address books, schedules and payment information, and the technology has been designed to protect this information even when the mobile phone is lost or stolen.The sensor tests successfully more than 99 times in 100, and is fully Symbian, BREW, embedded Linux, and ITRON OS compatible. Data registration measures 1.5 KB per photo, while memory usage measures just ROM 450 KB or RAM 370 KB. Full
processing time is approximately one second with MSM 6500.
(Japan Corpnet)
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News of Friday, February 18, 2005
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Mobile Phones Drive Fuel Cell Development
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(2/18/2005) If mobile phones start offering functions like digital broadcast reception and WLAN support, existing batteries will be too weak. Could fuel cells provide the answer?
About two years ago, the industry predicted that fuel cells in portable gear would be commercialized in 2004, and achieve widespread market penetration in 2005, eventually powering all portable systems. Even though 2004 has been and gone, though, the promised fuel cell-powered products have not yet arrived. (Nikkei)
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News of Thursday, February 17, 2005
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DoCoMo to exit personal handyphone business - sources
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(2/17/2005) NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan’s largest mobile operator, will pull out of its money-losing personal handyphone system (PHS) business, so it can focus on its main mobile business, NTT group sources said on Thursday.
The mobile unit of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) plans to announce as early as this month that it will stop accepting new PHS customers early in the next business year starting April and end the service in two to three years, the sources said. DoCoMo, which is Japan’s second-largest provider of PHS services after Willcom Inc., expects to book a loss of about 60 billion yen ($569.3 million) in the year to March 31 to dispose of equipment and scale back its operations, the sources said.
DoCoMo said in a statement that it had not made any decisions, but the company had said in the past that it was reviewing the dwindling PHS business.
(Reuters)
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OMRON has announced face recognition technology which can be implemented in PDAs, mobile phones or other mobile devices with a camera function, dubbed the "OKAO Vision Face Recognition Sensor." According to Omron, mobile devices are carrying ever more per... |
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If mobile phones start offering functions like digital broadcast reception and WLAN support, existing batteries will be too weak. Could fuel cells provide the answer?
About two years ago, the industry predicted that fuel cells in portable gear would b... |
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DoCoMo to exit personal handyphone business - sources |
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NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan’s largest mobile operator, will pull out of its money-losing personal handyphone system (PHS) business, so it can focus on its main mobile business, NTT group sources said on Thursday.
The mobile unit of Nippon Telegraph and... |
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