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Smartphone in Japan

Link: Engadget Japanese.

待望のW-SIM対応シャープ製Windows Mobile 5.0スマートフォンが登場。その名もW-ZERO3!

Willcom will release the first ever Smartphone in Japan, called W-ZERO3. It has built-in Wi-Fi and Windows Mobile installed and is guessed to cost $350. I'm not sure if I buy it, but I'm tempted.

NetFront is now capable of RSS and Atom Feed

Link: 家電向けブラウザ「NetFront」がRSS/Atom Feed、日本語ドメインに対応.

ACCESS has released their new User-Agent "NetFront" which is now compatible to RSS/Atom feed. The support is only for displaying (rendering) RSS/Atom feed into somewhat readable format (think of XSLT), which doesn't mean something like RSS aggregator is built-in.

Podcasting on mobile phone

Link: 「1000万台は売れる」：NTTドコモ、901iシリーズを発表 - CNET Japan.

As I wrote earlier, new FOMA 901i by NTT DoCoMo will support AAC/128kbps audio files to play. It means you can enjoy Podcasts on your cellphone. Additionally, Fujitsu's F901i will bundle optional software that allows you to drag & drop mp4 files directly from iTunes to your USB-connected cellphone mini-SD card.

Streaming on mobile phone

Link: ITmediaモバイル：携帯でインターネットラジオ～タフの試み.

Taff has released Internet Radio on mobile phone, which allows you to listen to stream program with your mobile phone. It shows that unlimited data transfer with fixed price will bring more exciting applications and business models like this.

Mobile movie Postings to Blog

Link: gooブログ、携帯電話からの動画投稿が可能に.

Taking a movie (not picture) on the cellphone has been quite popular in Japan these days ("Movie Sha-Mail"). Hence no wonder there're growking needs for mobloggers to post movies to their blogs. The most difficult bit for this is the difference between movie and audio encodings among the carieers: ASX, 3GPP, 3GPP2, AMC, AAC and MP3.

Deco-Mail in non-FOMA clients

Link: ドコモ、デコメールを非対応端末でも受信可能に.

DoCoMo will alow non-FOMA cellphones to preview Deco-Mail (HTML Mail that can be created with FOMA) on its built-in web browser.