Content providers like i-mode because it’s easy to program for — the format is nearly identical to regular Web pages — and they get 86% of the carrier’s take from content sales. Also important, i-mode runs on upgraded wireless networks, known as 2.5G or GPRS, that offer faster, always-on connections. What’s the attraction? Unlike the often-shoddy WAP offerings of a few years back, i-mode is a tightly woven, easily navigable package of preselected services.
NEC Corporation today announced, through its subsidiary NEC America, a leading provider of innovative communications products, solutions and services, the launch of its 515 High Definition Mobile+ (HDM) handset to be sold through AT&T Wireless retail outlets. This exclusive relationship offers the benefit of AT&T Wireless’ powerful network combined with NEC’s global experience in handset development and manufacturing. Available to U.S. consumers on July 28, the 515 HDM will serve as a premiere gaming handset delivering both enhanced game play capabilities and multimedia messaging.
If any of you begin to note a slightly limey tone to future Viewpoints, it’s because the WWJ team has a new member, moi – Paul Kallender, as Tokyo correspondent. Take a look at my my bio. below and you will see that I am fully capable of deploying my creative weapons of article construction well within 45 minutes! I’ll be filing weekly with my take on the trends animating Japan’s mobile biz, as well as offering insight you can’t get from our competitors -most of whom either don’t live in Japan or are not actually independent journalists. I can’t follow in ex-editor-in-chief Daniel Scuka’s footsteps (partly because he’s in Germany and I’m in Japan), but I do hope you’ll bear with meas I attempt in my own way to “rip the faceplate” off Japan’s wireless industry. Given my Aikido background, I will be doing my best to at least throw some of the PR pap journalists have to rewrite into the digital dustbin of history. In short, come to WWJ for the stuff you can’t get elsewhere.
NTT DoCoMo and its eight regional subsidiaries announced today new measures to counter the growing number of spam mail being sent via the network. The initiatives, in which offenders will either have their DoCoMo services temporarily suspended or completely rescinded, are part of the company’s continuous efforts in the fight against spam. In the past, spam mail was mainly sent to i-mode handsets from personal computers via the internet. To prevent this, DoCoMo implemented various measures, asking users to restrict incoming e-mail by blocking or accepting mail only from designated sources (domains or e-mail addresses).
NEC Corporation announced today that its mobile internet Platform and i-mode(TM) mobile handset commenced operation at Telefonica Moviles Espana (TME)’s “e-mocion” service started from June 26th 2003. TME and NEC, via its subsidiary NEC Iberica, have entered into an agreement for the supply of a mobile multimedia platform system with a view to develop i-mode services as one of the attractive service menus among e-mocion. Telefonica Moviles Espana is the Spanish leading mobile telephony company, with more than 18.7 million subscribers in Spain.
ACCESS, a global provider of mobile content delivery and access technologies for information appliances, today announced that its Compact NetFrontTM Plus micro-browser and JV-LiteTM 2 Wireless Edition, a Java-enabling module for mobile phones, have been deployed in NEC’s latest handset. The N341i is compatible with the GPRS-based Spanish i-mode service ‘MoviStar e-mocion’ which , launched on June 26, 2003.
