When covering the FOMA / RakuRaku handsets a few days ago, I wondered what the words Raku-Raku mean. Luckily, David Doherty from 3GDoctor left a comment explaining the meaning: FYI Raku-Raku translates into Easy Easy. These phones are meant to be easy to use mobiles and are marketed to digital immigrants (like the elderly who didn’t

TOKYO, JAPAN, November 26, 2008 --- NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced today that it has begun issuing new domestic straight corporate bonds, as follows: About NTT DOCOMO NTT DOCOMO is the world's leading mobile communications company. DOCOMO serves over 53 million customers, including 46 million people subscribing to FOMA™, launched as the world's first 3G mobile service based on W-CDMA in 2001. DOCOMO...

Even though millions and millions of Symbian phones are sold in Japan every year, Nokia’s overall market share down there is less than 1%. The reason: NTT-DoCoMo’s rather obscure FOMA platform. As the end of the FOMA platform is coming closer every day (it will go the same way UIQ went), customers must eventually be moved

So Nokia has a 40-odd percent stake in the world's handset market. You know where that insanely high number isn't coming from? Japan, where the Finnish giant holds less than a 1-percent share of phone sales as it competes against domestic models from Sharp, NEC, Fujitsu, and others who've traditionally ruled over FOMA with an iron fist. We think that we can probably chalk that up to...

Symbian Limited welcomes NTT DOCOMO's launch of the docomo PRIME series SH-01A based on Symbian OS, which starts shipping in Japan today. The docomo PRIME series SH-01A is a cycloid-style handset with an 8 megapixel camera and a 3.3 inch wide screen. This new phone is manufactured by Sharp Corporation and is includes the MOAP platform which is compliant with the latest FOMA specifications and...

Traditionally, Symbian Smartphones came in three varieties: S60, UIQ and FOMA. While S60 and UIQ are covered and used all over the world, Foma phones (also known as Raku-Raku, whatever that means) are limited to selected Asian markets. The recent Symbian Smartphone Show had a Renesas booth showcasing a few devices…an opportunity we used to

Symbian Limited welcomes three new phones from NTT DOCOMO based on Symbian OS™, The phones include: The FOMA F906i, a “One-segment" mobile TV handset with a wide view feature and an anytime-available “search key” allowing quick search functionality, manufactured by Fujitsu Limited. The FOMA SH906i, an intuitive user friendly touch panel handset with a 5.2 megapixel...

LG has yet again renamed its popular clamshell, the LG Wine as the KH4500 for its debut in Korea. The KH4500 is already available in the European market and Canada as the KF300 and NTT DoCoMo has released it in Japan as the FOMA L706ie in July 2008. For Korea, KTF will be the lucky

In Japan known like FOMA L706ie, in Canada and Europe like KF300, the LG Wine now goes to Korea under model name KH4500. Japanese NTT… + view full entry

Latest Panasonic FOMA P706ie is 23rd Device in Market Leveraging LiMo Platform™ Technology LONDON, England, TOKYO, Japan, —LiMo Foundation™, the global consortium of mobile leaders delivering an open handset platform for the whole mobile industry, detailed today the 23rd LiMo-compliant handset. The FOMA P706ie from Panasonic Mobile Communications is another commercially shipping model that d...