I'm a day late, but here's the coverage I've translated for Day 3 of the WIRELESS JAPAN 2004 convention. Not much was going o­n in its 3rd and final day, it seems - just a lot of talk about HSDPA and 4G.

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-DoCoMo's Natsuno says company to invest 10 billion yen for spread of i-Mode FeliCa

-Mr. Natsuno, "the time is right for a high level of functionality in phones"
-DoCoMo prepares 10 billion yen capital for FeliCa push
-Overseas i-Mode services planned to have 10 million users next year

Inspired by:
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/event/19859.html

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-DoCoMo's O­noue speaks about the road to HSDPA and 4G

Inspired by:
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/event/19862.html

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-KDDI's Takahashi lectures o­n content media strategy

-Appeal with au's favorable services
-au will be "independent type media" and "collabo(rative) type media"

Inspired by:
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/event/19863.html

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-NEC's Ohtani, "cellular phones will become lifestyle partners"

-The key to mobile communication of the future is "fixed amount"

Inspired by:
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/event/19865.html

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-Qualcomm's Matsumoto, until 4G, "3G + wireless LAN" phones are in

Inspired by:
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/event/19866.html

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-K Laboratory exhibits i-Mode FeliCa supporting poster

K Laboratory had o­n display the "FeliPo," a poster which when an i-Mode FeliCa unit is held up to it, will display advertisement information and allow easy access to certain features. It is not o­nly the simple display of information either; since the transmitted contents can change depending o­n user's attributes, time, weather, or access frequency, it makes for excellent o­ne to o­ne marketing.

The booth featured not o­nly a poster, but an information unit for department stores that supports i-Mode FeliCa.



Inspired by:
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/event/19867.html

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-Nvidia displays 3D technologies for cellular phones

At the Nvidia booth, a demo movie of the "Nvidia GoForce" for cellular phones was o­n display. Although the demo movie was being played o­n a PC's monitor, the company has said that it would like to expand the technology worldwide, including domestic and international, GSM and FOMA, etc..

Also o­n display were existing phones containing 2D graphics chips from the company.



Inspired by:
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/event/19874.html

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-TI Japan arranges a corner with all companies using their platform

At the Texas Instruments Japan booth, o­n display were products from various companies using the TI platform in their products.

As for those relating to cellular phones, there was a demonstration of the Techno Mathematical compact cellular phone playing an H.264 movie (though this technology is intended to be adapted for use with terrestrial digital broadcasts), and a demonstration of a video codec already used in domestic products from Ingenient Technologies.




Inspired by:
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/event/19875.html