We're about two days behind with this coverage, but I think you'll understand when I say "oops." Rather than put up some article that just said "nothing to write home about," I figured I'd wait a few days to put up a decent article so you can make your own judgement.

DoCoMo offers a new line of FOMA phones: the 700i series. There are four handsets: the F700i, the N700i, the P700i, and finally the SH700i. More details and probably too many pics inside.

Here's a new technology from NTT DoCoMo and some other clowns that allows mobile phones to display 3D map data. Au would probably be interested in something like this to go with their EZ Navi Walker service.

NTT DoCoMo has announced their latest in the Premini series, the Premini-2. While a little bigger than it's predecessors, I'll willing to bet that most people would be worried about either swallowing it or washing it accidently, not to mention having too-big fingers for still too-small keys.

A Taito classic recreated in 3D for your FOMA 900i/901i mobile phone.

We've heard of NXT SoundVu technology used before, but I believe this is the first time it's being used o­n a mobile phone. Nor will it probably be the last time we hear of it.

For those of you who missed it, NXT SoundVu is a technology developed by England's "New Transducers," which allows the display itself to act as a speaker.

NTT DoCoMo has announced their will invest $3M ( about 312M yen) in America's MontaVista, a company that deals with the development of embedded Linux. The procedures will be completed o­n the 22nd.

MontaVista deals with development of Linux optimized for embedded devices, and through cooperation with NEC, the company's technology has been used as an OS o­n the "N900iL," "N901i," and "P901i" DoCoMo handsets. DoCoMo plans to strengthen their cooperative relationship with the company through this investment. This is reportedly to help begin cooperation o­n a development strategy level, in an effort to improve functionality of products containing the Linux OS and development efficiency.

Inspired by:
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/news_toppage/21961.html

Press Release:
http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/new/contents/04/whatnew1221.html

It's been a long time coming but it looks like NTT Docomo has finally gotten around to releasing a W-CDMA/GSM mobile phone. The NEC N900iG is firmly targeted at the business sector and, as a result, is available in only one colour - ocean blue. Apart from the dual-network functionality, most of the features of this phone are pretty ho-hum.

"You mean to tell me that you couldn't access Hotmail from your i-Mode phone all this time?"

Believe it or not, no. i-Mode support for Hotmail was limited to MSN 9 subscribers.

Sony Ericsson still hasn't gotten o­n the FOMA train bound for the future, which is why there's no "SO901i" phone or some such, but that's apparently changing shortly.

Sharp and Sony Ericsson have announced they'll be cooperating for development of new FOMA handsets.

Another day, another new series of mobile phone handsets from NTT DoCoMo. The new "901i" series of FOMA handsets all have standard features including twin speakers for positional audio and improved 3D graphics capability. The first of the new handsets will go on sale from November 26.