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To: slacker711 who wrote (26178)	8/29/2002 9:48:05 AM
From: foundation	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196746

Toyota to Start CDMA2000 1x Information Service for Cars Called 'G-BOOK' August 29, 2002 (TOKYO) -- Toyota Motor Corp. revealed on Aug. 28 its new service called "G-BOOK," which distributes town and other information to car navigation systems through the third-generation mobile phone network. The company plans to load the G-BOOK-compliant device to the new concept car to be released this fall, and start the service at that time. In the latter half of 2003, all the car navigation systems for Toyota's car are planned to be G-BOOK compliant. The G-BOOK uses the special car navigation device jointly developed by Toyota, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. and Matsushita Communication Industrial Co., Ltd., and the communication module jointly developed by Toyota, Denso Corp., and KDDI Corp. The information will be distributed to users through the third-generation mobile phone network (CDMA 2000 1x standard) by KDDI. Some of the services to be offered in cooperation with partner companies include: (1) a service to send the location information of a car when it is in trouble and to request a rescue car, (2) a service to send the location information of a car via e-mail, (3) a service that searches the store information on town information magazines through the Internet and reflects the store location on the map of the car navigation system, and (4) a service where the car navigation system receives some news through the Internet, which is to be read out by the system itself. All these contents will be developed using the language called "G-BOOK-ML." G-BOOK menu can be customized by each user, and the customized information is to be stored on the server. Toyota plans to offer software that enables contents developed by G-BOOK-ML to be viewed using PCs, mobile phones, and PDAs. According to Toyota, "users will be able to get G-BOOK service wherever they are, like they are in the car." Toyota will announce the communication fee and content usage fee for the service when it introduces the new car, and says that the fee will be affordable. The company does not plan to disclose the number of G-BOOK users, but explains that, "currently about half of Toyota's cars are equipped with a car navigation system, and all of the navigation systems are to be G-BOOK compatible in the latter half of 2003. This means that we can expect half of the purchasers of Toyota's car and more will be G-BOOK users." The G-BOOK introduction site will be opened on Sept. 1, and the services for PCs, mobile phones, and PDAs will start on Oct. 1, prior to the start of the service for cars. nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com ========== Why isn't Toyota using FOMA? <g>