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Hands-on with Docomo’s squeeze-based smartphone UI (video)
Author: Tiffany Shoman
With large-screened mobile phones taking a larger and larger share of the marketplace, their use continuously gets called into question. And nowhere is the issue more apparent than in Japan, where a big proportion of the population depends on public transportation, using their phones to check out news and email on the way to work. Today, NTT Docomo & rsquo; s research arm is flaunting a touch-based interface called Grip UI that & rsquo; s taking on the issue in a brand-new method, with pressure sensors on the unit & rsquo; s edges and back (visualized below) that allow individuals to input commands simply by squeezing.
The most significant roadblock is keeping in mind where to squeeze
Making use of a customized Panasonic P– 06D, the company showed us how equal pressure along both of the phone & rsquo; s edges …
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NTT DoCoMo’s Galaxy S II LTE makes way through FCC with swagger
Author: Tyler Evans
Among the litany of smartphones that NTT DoCoMo announced last month, the SC-03D — otherwise known as the Galaxy S II LTE — was undeniably among the forefront of the bunch. The handset will begin shipping in the Land of the Rising Sun before year’s end, but it seems that a lucky punk at the FCC got to review its dirty bits ahead of the glorious release. Like its Korea-bound siblings, the phone sports a Snapdragon S3 SoC with a dual-core 1.5GHz CPU and an Adreno 220 GPU, but unlike the over-achieving HD variant, the SC-03D’s 4.5-inch display is limited to WVGA resolution. Jet-lagged Japanese travelers will find GPRS and EDGE love with our 1900 and 850MHz domestic networks, although HSPA is restricted to the 2100 and 900MHz bands. As for that lusty 75Mbps theoretical speed for the Xi LTE network, you’ll have to excuse us while we attempt to hide our jealousy.
NTT DoCoMo’s Galaxy S II LTE makes way through FCC with swagger originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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NTT DoCoMo’s Fujitsu LOOX F-07C goes official, coming with Windows 7 Home Premium (updated)
Author: Matthew Wilson
Yes, ’tis quite a shock for a Monday morning, but it turns out the dual-booting Fujitsu LOOX F-07C smartphone is indeed legit. According to NTT DoCoMo’s preliminary spec sheet, this 7.69-ounce landscape slider handles both Symbian and Windows 7 (Home Premium, 32-bit Japanese edition) with its 4-inch 1,024 x 600 LCD, along with a 1.2GHz Intel Atom processor, 1GB of LPDDR400 RAM, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, 32GB of eMMC disk space, and expandable memory via microSDHC. You’ll also find a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with face detection on the back, coupled by a VGA front-facing camera. Of course, the main concern is how the battery life fares here: we’re told that in “mobile phone mode” you get up to 600 hours of standby time and up to 370 minutes of 3G talk time; whereas in Windows 7 mode you’ll have to make do with just two hours, and then you’re forced into mobile phone mode when the battery level is low. If you’re itching to get yourself an eccentric F-07C, then watch out for its launch in June or July. Full list of specifications and press release after the break.
Update: ASCII’s just posted a few real-life shots of this device, and mentions a retail price of around ¥70,000 ($ 860). Oh, and there’s HDMI-out via a USB adapter.
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NTT DoCoMo’s Fujitsu LOOX F-07C goes official, coming with Windows 7 Home Premium (updated) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 15 May 2011 23:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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NTT DoCoMo’s AR Walker is augmented reality at its finest (video)
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Say you’re in New York… or Tokyo. You have absolutely no idea where you are, where you need to go, or where the closest Starbucks is. Sure, you could look at the mapping app on your AGPS-equipped handset, but where’s the sci-fi in that? Leave it to Japan’s NTT DoCoMo (in partnership with Olympus) to whip up a wearable augmented reality solution that’s nearly small enough (and reasonable-looking enough) for individuals with an ounce of self-respect to use, and we’ve had a chance to check it out here at CEATEC this week. Follow the break for impressions and video!
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NTT DoCoMo’s AR Walker is augmented reality at its finest (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Oct 2010 02:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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DoCoMo’s glasses-free 3D LCD panel could make the 3DS look decidedly first-gen
Author: Markus Smith
At E3 this past summer, we got our first taste of the Nintendo 3DS, and early impressions were good: compelling 3D effect sans glasses from its Sharp-sourced parallax barrier LCD. But, as soon as we moved the thing it became clear that the viewing angle on the effect is woefully slim. This is a problem DoCoMo is said to have at least reduced with its glasses-free LCD, relying on eight lenticular lenses to offer a 30 degree viewing angle — on the horizontal plane. Vertically you still have to be perfectly aligned, but the company hopes to remove that restriction before products based on this tech are released in the next year or two. It’s a bit early, but we’re already having flashbacks to young LCD manufacturers battling to deliver the widest viewing angles while maintaining full contrast. Hopefully that means in the not-too-distant future everyone will have 180-degree 3D LCDs — and they’ll all be dirt cheap, too.
DoCoMo’s glasses-free 3D LCD panel could make the 3DS look decidedly first-gen originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 is likely NTT DoCoMo’s best selling smartphone — ever
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Japan’s wireless networks have a longstanding, legendary reputation for existing in some parallel plane that’s technologically light years ahead of the rest of the world, but that reputation’s unquestionably in greater danger today than in any point in the past fifteen years. Why? Though the featurephones offered by NTT DoCoMo, SoftBank, and KDDI are ultra high-spec beasts, they’re still featurephones at the end of the day — and this comes at a time when smartphones are finally becoming true cultural phenomena across the remainder of the developed world (and, in some cases, the developing world).
There’s no greater evidence of this than the word this week that Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10 — a phone that’s been met with lukewarm reviews, including from Engadget Japanese’s own Ittousai — has allegedly become NTT DoCoMo’s best-selling smartphone in history, a fact that would seem completely inexplicable in any other market globally. What makes it possible in Japan, of course, is DoCoMo’s historically lame selection of true smartphones, a lineup that currently includes localized versions of the HTC Magic, and the original HTC Touch Diamond and BlackBerry Bold. What’s more, many of these devices integrate poorly with popular carrier services on account of their super-tight control of the operating systems running across the featurephone lineup, something they’ve got less control over with a device running Android or Windows Mobile.
In other words, when it’s reported that DoCoMo had sold 100,000 X10s in its first 20 days — and a third-party retailer claims that the Magic-esque HT-03A is the next best seller at 80,000 units in 10 months — it seems plausible, if not likely (and Ittousai agrees). Yeah, even though the localized device has been plagued with performance problems and bugs, incompatibilities with DoCoMo’s i-mode push email, and so on. It’s hard to say what it’s going to take for these guys to make an honest-to-goodness transition to the brave new world of open platforms and freewheeling third-party development, but they’re clearly not there yet.
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 is likely NTT DoCoMo’s best selling smartphone — ever originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 May 2010 20:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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