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MWC 2011 Post Event Report

Another hectic year for all attending the annual Mobile World Congress confab in Barcelona - a few thoughts from WWJ http://bit.ly/hJUut7

Posted: 22 February 2011 | Filed under: Editor's Note, tweets | ..Continue >>

WirelessWatch @Mobile World Congress

Locked & Loaded for #MWC in BCN at Fira from 12-18th we’ll be in the Press Room & many of the mixer events. Look forward to meet there soon!

Posted: 10 February 2011 | Filed under: Editor's Note, tweets | ..Continue >>

A few comments for The Register on this article. ++ INLINE BELOW ++
Proximity payments have long been popular in Japan, in part because of the cash-based culture that eschews credit cards..
++As opposed to the service being widely available, both by devices and point of sale readers, and ‘rather’ convenient for customers to use. Otherwise, […]

Posted: 14 January 2011 | Filed under: Editor's Note | ..Continue >>

Seasons Greetings for 2011

Posted: 1 January 2011 | Filed under: Editor's Note | ..Continue >>

DoCoMo Announces The Next Stage

Under the theme Next Stage, we watched DoCoMo CEO, Ryuji Yamada, introduce a record 28 new handsets along with LTE service launch and file this report

Posted: 9 November 2010 | Filed under: Editor's Note, tweets | ..Continue >>

iBarbarian vs. the Galapagos

Clearly two terms that touch raw nerves; the iPhone impact here along with the (r)evolution of mobile in Japan and its position in the global industry. To be fair and balanced - as we have always tried to do - neither, let alone both, of these topics are simple enough to describe in a few thousand words.

Posted: 22 July 2010 | Filed under: Editor's Note, Sign of the Times | ..Continue >>

Setting the Record Straight for FT

After some time to reflect on this article by Financial Times we decided clearly somebody needs to step forward to shed some light on what should be obvious fact to most players in the game. The plan by DoCoMo to feature Android apps originally came to light (see last paragraph Here) at Mobile World Congress […]

Posted: 21 July 2010 | Filed under: Editor's Note, Japan Market | ..Continue >>

Renesas Buys Nokia Modem Division

We tweeted this news four hours ago - with attribute link to the source at IntoMobile - and included a comment but it still has not appeared there so thought we’d cover this on WWJ directly instead. That thread is pasted in full below with Screen-Shot of Our Comment Here.

Posted: 6 July 2010 | Filed under: Editor's Note | ..Continue >>

Summer 2010 - Japan Superphone Specs

For those who wonder Why Japan Couldn’t Make a Phone Like This.. it would be easy to shred your one-way approach, maybe we’ll get around to that yet. Meanwhile, lets just look forward for now shall we..?!?

A quick review of the new F-06B for DoCoMo by Fujitsu just released to the market here on June 12th. It’s the first example, that we can find, of a waterproof handset that has both slider and twister design, guess that was an engineering challenge. Touting 13MB camera with 4128×3096 .jpg resolution and full touch screen - with scrawling input - on 3.5 inch WVGA TFT display at 16.77 million colors or 480×960 dots. Continue>>

Posted: 28 June 2010 | Filed under: Editor's Note, Sign of the Times | ..Continue >>