As of today, the only widespread use of augmented reality lies through the lens of a smartphone camera. But even that barrier between the phone and yourself reduces the realism of what’s supposed to feel like reality. NTT DoCoMo put their AR Walker prototype to the test at Ceatec, where some spectators waited up to an hour to try out ...
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Toshiba sued for cloning Fujitsu’s phone
You know how China is a land of freedom in terms of copyright laws, with all those small brands copying Nokia phones and iPhones with the sole consequence of making (good) money. Now how about a big brand copying another big brand, this time being staged in the land of Japan? Jump for more drama.
Read More »DoCoMo’s network puts ATT and Vodafone to shame
Japan’s largest mobile operator NTT DoCoMo announced this morning that for the first time in the world, they have managed a 100% population 3G coverage with their WCDMA network. The last 2 villages with reception towers installed are both in Okinawa, where they don’t even speak proper Japanese. The towers will be powered up on Mar28. Take note that ...
Read More »External cellphone antenna for crappy indoor coverage
One of the reasons of choosing a cellphone operator over another would be coverage, but no matter how good the network is there are always blind spots, this is especially true when you are 3G users (higher frequency lower diffraction), out of the city center, or even in your own room sometimes. NTT DoCoMo has got it figured out and ...
Read More »DoCoMo and McDonalds join hands in Japan
Two of Japan’s largest companies and now, oddly paired partners, have joined together in corporate harmony to bring the Japanese public the best of bytes and burgers. This 300 million yen joint agreement will promote the use of DoCoMo’s IC-card e-cash phones in McDonalds’ through out the country of Japan. This agreement will work in conjunction with McDonalds new “membership ...
Read More »Chat with your friends on GPS
We’ve probably all seen movies where special agents locate eachother on a GPS map and chat. We can actually do that in real life now, if you live in Japan and happen to use NTT DoCoMo’s newer FOMA phones (903i series or beyond). All you have to do is to have the iMapFan JAVA application running at the background, when ...
Read More »Fujitsu sells water-proof phone in a tub
What da heck right? Yeah, what da heck, but that’s what fujitsu did at the press conference this morning, having the F703i phone ringing in the tub with a model, just to let the world know how important and beautiful it is to have a waterproof phone. “Moshi moshi!” We feel sorry for her- hopefully she’s paid well. Oh yeah, ...
Read More »DoCoMo announces 703i series, BRAVIA SO903iTV and double internal screen D800iDS
Just 4 hours after AU KDDI’s announcement, NTT DoCoMo announced the new WCDMA 703i series in Tokyo. Nothing out of our expectation as we wrote about before. Also announced are the SonyEricsson BRAVIA SO903iTV DMB phone and Mitsubishi’s double-internal screen D900iDS, both of which Gearfuse premiered on Sunday. The 703i series is the mid-low end of DoCoMo’s 3G portfolio, so ...
Read More »Mitsubishi to commercialize buttonless dual-internal-screen flip phones
If you are a phone geek, than you will be aware of the buttonless dual-internal-screen flip phones that NTT DoCoMo showcased a while ago. Well, we got good news here because apparently Mitsubishi is going to bring this out commercially, putting it under NTT DoCoMo’s 800i (D800iDS?) series. — Sam Chan
Read More »Gearfuse Plumbers: SE’s first DMB Bravia phone SO903iTV and Z610-esque SO703i
Here are pictures of the 2 upcoming phones from SonyEricsson. One with a swivel screen, the first Bravia phone that supports DMB (One-Seg) the SO903iTV. The second one is the SO703i, looking like the Z610 outside Japan. Enjoy.
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