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WIRELESS JAPAN 2004, Day 3

Mobile Phones / Other
Posted by zmcnulty on Jul 24, 2004 - 02:24 PM

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.

-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 [1]

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

Inspired by:
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/event/19862.html [2]

-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 [3]

-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 [4]

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

Inspired by:
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/event/19866.html [5]

-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.

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Inspired by:
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/event/19867.html [8]

-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.

[9] [10] [11]

Inspired by:
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/event/19874.html [12]

-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.

[13] [14]
[15] [16]

Inspired by:
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/event/19875.html [17]