DoCoMo, Motorola to build FOMA/GSM handset
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Increasing NTT DoCoMo&#39;s reach outside Japan, the Japanese carrier has partnered with Motorola to build a 3G FOMA phone that also does GSM/GPRS.
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Are there more changes ahead for Motorola?
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Japan&#39;s biggest mobile telecom carrier gave its strongest support yet to&#160;Google&#39;s Android platform&#160;on Thursday when it said it is considering a cell phone based on the technology.&quot;We are starting discussions to offer handsets that will have the Android operating system,&quot; said Takeshi Natsuno, managing director of the multimedia services department at NTT DoCoMo.The talks include getting support for I-mode, DoCoMo&#39;s hit mobile Internet service, on the Android platform. Nearly 48 million of DoCoMo&#39;s 53 million customers subscribe to I-mode, so having it on Android will be key to the Google platform&#39;s success in Japan.Android is a Linux-based platform for cell phones that will combine open-source components and include an operating system, middleware stack, customizable user interface and applications.NTT DoCoMo is one of the founding members of the Open Handset Alliance, the group developing Android. Until Thursday hadn&#39;t disclosed what it hoped to gain from its participation in the group, which includes about 40 companies including some of the biggest names in the cell phone industry.&quot;When I look at the prototype, the Android-based handset works really well even on some of the cheaper handset designs,&quot; said Natsuno.Natsuno didn&#39;t provide any specifics about when such a handset might be available. When the Open Handset Alliance was launched last year Google said that it expected the first phones running the software to appear in late 2008.Despite its support for Android, NTT DoCoMo is also working with companies developing rival platforms. It has an alliance with Access, a Japanese software company with which is has deep ties, on the Access Linux Platform (ALP). DoCoMo is working on a &quot;carrier pack,&quot; a set of unique products and services, that can run on ALP, which is intended to be a common Linux platform for cell phones.Natsuno&#39;s comments came at a Tokyo news conference held to detail a partnership between the carrier and Google.The alliance will see Google products and applications added to DoCoMo handsets. These will include the addition of a Google search box on the main I-mode menu page from which users will access mobile and PC Web sites. Google Ads will appear alongside search results. The two companies said they are also planning to bring more Google services, such as Google Maps, to handsets and build in support for Flash video so that users can access and stream content from YouTube.Google will appear as the default start page on mobile phones that feature browsers for the full Internet.The deal is Google&#39;s second in the mobile space in Japan. It already has a deal with second-ranked carrier &quot;au&quot; to which it provides search and advertising services. Number three carrier Softbank Mobile has a link with Yahoo Japan, the portal in which its parent company, Softbank, is the biggest shareholder.&#160;
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Motorola Inc , the world's  third biggest mobile phone maker, on Sunday unveiled two new  phones and a plan to buy Asian digital music service Soundbuzz  as it looks to stem recent market share losses.
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Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc. (9437.T), Fuji  Television Network Inc. (4676.T), Nippon Broadcasting System  Inc. and other firms will team up to develop new broadcast  services for cellphones, the companies said on Wednesday.
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NTT DoCoMo, Vodafone and 24 other mobile phone firms and manufacturers join forces to develop the next generation of high-speed handsets.
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CNET takes a look at some the advanced handsets from Japanese cell phone provider NTT DoCoMo at 2008 GSMA Mobile World Congress.
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Motorola Inc , the world's  third biggest mobile phone maker, on Sunday unveiled two new  cell phones and a plan to buy Asian digital music service  Soundbuzz Pte Ltd. as it looks to stem recent market share  losses.
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Japan&#39;s NTT DoCoMo will join hands with Cingular Wireless of the United States, aiming to unify technical specifications for third-generation (3G) cellphones and services.
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Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc., Fuji Television  Network Inc., Nippon Broadcasting System Inc. and other firms  will team up to develop new broadcast services for cellphones,  the companies said on Wednesday.
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Japan's NTT DoCoMo says it willwork with several other firms to develop television content for cellphones.
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Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc.  and  Atlanta-based AT&T Inc.'s  wireless unit will work  together to build a high-speed mobile network throughout  Hawaii, catering to Japanese tourists.
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TOKYO Schaumburg(Illinois)-based Motorola and Japan&#39;s top mobile-phone carrier plan to develop a more sophisticated mobile phone that subscribers in Japan can use while traveling to other parts of Asia and to Europe.
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NTT DoCoMo, Japan&#39;s dominant mobile operator, is to start selling mobile phones from Nokia and Motorola next year in a bid to reduce its reliance on local manufacturers.
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NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile carrier, is partnering with Google to offer search and e-mail on its handsets, according to news reports.
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Motorola plans first use of the open-source software in the core of next-generation cell phone networks.
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Cisco(R) (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced that it will provide a dual-mode IP telephony solution that utilizes the N902iL FOMA / wireless LAN dual-mode mobile phone from NTT DoCoMo, coupled with Cisco Unified CallManager and the Cisco Unified Wireless Network.