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  Japanese firms like NTT DOCOMO, Fujitsu, NEC and Panasonic Mobile Communications have decided to come together with Samsung to produce chips related to wireless communications. According to highly reliable Nikkei business daily, these companies are joining hands with Samsung to produce baseband chips and thus, reduce the reliance on Qualcomm chips that controls 80 [...]

  Japan’s NTT DoCoMo today unveiled a new handset that dual-boots and boasts a full-fledged Windows 7 OS. The F-07C is touted as the world’s smallest Windows PC that runs Windows 7 Home Premium OS. Admittedly, you won’t be able to do some resource-intensive work on its 1.2GHz Atom processor but you know, it should [...]

  Xperia acro that was leaked yesterday has apparently got an image to its name. The image was unearthed by a Japanese site who says the phone is codenamed as Azusa or SO-02C for NTT DoCoMo. The phone is said to be an improved version of Xperia arc, which is why the phone looks very [...]

  All those phones in Japan which we used to ogle till now can be ours for real. NTT DOCOMO has announced that they’ll offer to officially unlock all the new devices for a nominal fee. Customers buying any phone launched after April 1, 2011 will be eligible to have the phone’s SIM lock removed [...]

  Just as expected, NTT DOCOMO unwrapped the world’s thinnest Android smartphone in Japan today. Developed by NEC, the MEDIAS N-04C is just 7.7mm at its thinnest point and weighs just 105 grams. However, a thin form factor does not mean the phone is slouch when it comes to performance. The phone features a 4-inch [...]

  It’s no secret that Japanese always have the coolest phones. While we devour ourselves with a 12MP phone with Xenon flash, Japanese consumers will enjoy the power of optical zoom in addition to the camera. NTT DOCOMO today announced a plethora of phones (28 to be exact) but the two phones that will make [...]

  Japanese mobile subscribers wanting to delve into the LTE goodness will be able to do so from 24th of next month. NTT DOCOMO will launch Xi (read as Crossy) that will become Japan’s first LTE service giving users a max. downlink of up to 75Mbps. DOCOMO will initially sell USB dongles, and LTE-compatible mobile [...]

  NTT DOCOMO, Renesas Electronics Corporation, Fujitsu Limited, NEC Corporation, Panasonic Mobile and Sharp Corporation have joined hands together to develop a common application platform that will help to improve processing speeds for video and improved renderings of 3D graphics. The companies deem developing a common platform will allow them to reduce development costs for [...]

  Its raining phones in Japan. Two Japanese operators, Softbank and NTT DoCoMo have announced 17 and 19 phones respectively. The phones range in every form factor with clamshell being the favorite and power packed spec sheet. Most of the phones have no less than 3.5-inches of display, at least an 8MP camera, GPS and [...]

  NTT DoCoMo has licensed Nissan’s revolutionary clearcoat paint. The Scratch Shield is touted to be more scratch resistant than regular clearcoat paints and also features self-healing capability. Nissan uses it worldwide for its cars but now NTT DoCoMo will also use for their phones, effectively giving the power to magically repair scratches, restoring it [...]

  Last year, NTT DoCoMo showed a prototype gadget that controlled music with the user’s eyes. This year at the CEATEC although the concept remains the same, the massive headphone-like tracker has been transformed into a small earbud. The earbuds integrate sensors that track the movement of the eyeballs and execute commands like increasing/decreasing volume, [...]

  NTT DOCOMO today announced that they’ve created a phone prototype made with the surplus wood. From the Shimanto jungle, NTT DOCOMO picked up the wood that was culled during forest-thinning operation and crafted it into a phone with Sharp and Olympus giving a helping hand. Since the natural wood tends to wear off over [...]

  Take that Samsung! You give us a solar phone but is crippled with features. Have a look at NTT Docomo’s Solar Hybrid (SH-08A) from the Style Series. It’s feature packed, solar powered and waterproof. As the name implies, the phone can be charged via a normal electric outlet or via direct sunlight that will [...]

NTT DOCOMO unveiled 18 new handsets that will be a part of Docomo’s STYLE, PRIME, PRO and Evangelion series. All the phones are FOMA 3G enabled and brings in a lot of power packed features that will be released from this month till July.   The docomo STYLE series includes F-08A, L-04A, N-08A, P-08A, P-10A [...]

  Japan’s NTT DoCoMo has developed a new spatial audio transmission technology that allows a mobile phone user to assign different spatial positions to each sound source, i.e. different callers in a conference call. The technology for instance, enables a user listening with headphones to hear different speaker voices coming from different directions thus, making [...]