Blackberry's Japanese debut on September 26th Mobile Phones / NTT DoCoMo Posted by zmcnulty on Sep 19, 2006 - 11:51 AM NTT DoCoMo has announced they'll be releasing the "BlackBerry 8707h" to corporate customers on September 26th. The 8707h is a "Global Model" of the BlackBerry 8707, offering support for W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS, so it can be used outside of Japan as well. It seems to be some sort of adaptation of the 8707v [1] available for Vodafone (whoops) in the UK. Specifications include a 320 x 240 color screen, Bluetooth, 64MB of memory. Specs-wise, the 8707h does not support Japanese. However, the device does support Namimail [2], a Japanese reading/input solution offered by NTT DoCoMo USA. Namimail can be used on most modern Blackberry devices [3], even those on carriers in the USA, so this might be one of the first and only times in history that a handset in the states actually has the same capabilities of a handset in Japan. Inspired by: http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/news_toppage/31076.html [4] Press Release: http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/info/news_release/page/20060919b.html [5] BlackBerry This article is from TechJapan   http://www.techjapan.com/ The URL for this story is:   http://www.techjapan.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1351 Links in this article   [1] http://www.blackberry.com/uk/products/blackberry8700/blackberry8707v.shtml   [2] http://www.namikiteru.com/   [3] http://www.namikiteru.com/en/namimail/japanese.html   [4] http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/news_toppage/31076.html   [5] http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/info/news_release/page/20060919b.html