EZ News Flash

EZ News Flash is another service that takes advantage of BCMCS, and is completely free to use.

The service consists primarily of a ticker on the idle page of a user's handset that shows the latest headlines, weather info, and so on. According to KDDI, this ticker won't really be available for third parties to use; news comes from newspaper companies, and weather information comes from weather information companies. So don't expect the ability to get your favorite RSS feeds on your handset's idle screen.

KDDI stated that this service isn't limited to news headlines; they're able to transmit the actual article itself. From 6AM until 12AM, KDDI plans to transmit new data every hour, with as much as 200KB of data every time.

The W43H, W43CA, DRAPE, and W47T will support the new service when it launches. Since it requires BCMCS support, handsets that can't use BCMCS are out of luck.



Inspired by:
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/news_toppage/30751.html

Press Release:
http://www.kddi.com/corporate/news_release/2006/0828c/