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To: Sawtooth who wrote (4386)11/15/2000 6:58:14 AM
From: Jim Oravetz  Read Replies (2) of 5390
 
OT: Sony tucks Walkman into cell phone
By Junko Yoshida, EE Times
URL: eetimes.com

TOKYO — Sony Corp. this month will deliver to two major digital cellular carriers in Japan — NTT Docomo and KDDI — a new generation of handsets designed as not just a phone but also a Walkman, capable of playing music recorded in a flash memory card. The unit packs a supertwisted-nematic color LCD with a screen size about 2 inches on the diagonal, housed in a compact (50 x 100 x 26-mm) body. A pointing device on the front panel ensures easy Web page scrolling.....

....As Docomo, with a whopping 14 million subscribers, expands its proprietary i-mode services, companies like KDDI are diverging by using the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). J-Phone, for its part, is using software somewhat similar to that of i-mode and also following NTT Docomo's wideband-CDMA road map for the future. KDDI is distancing itself from Docomo and betting big on Qualcomm's road map for cdma2000....
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