
NTT DoCoMo has just released details about a bunch of new handsets, including the company’s first HSDPA model, more Felica/credit card-function sets and news that future models will support both WMA and Win Media DRM.
DoCoMo is certainly trying to add technology in an attempt to defend its market share before number portability becomes available. Now that Softbank has bought Vodafone, Softbank’s president Masayashi Son may follow standard practice and start slashing costs, breaking up the cozy oligopoly that’s ruled Japan’s wireless roost for some time. Our good friends at WWJ have more analysis at the link.
(Via WWJ)
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