Tag: NTTDOCOMO

Whereas Verizon's ads feature an inescapable horde of tech support workers following around cell phone users, NTT DoCoMo's "walk with you" campaign for the Android-powered Samsung Galaxy S finds a silent Darth Vader supporting your guitar noodling, sightseeing and skateboarding. Maybe not the friendliest companion, but it's better than being followed around by Whoopi. ...

At last week's Wireless Technology Park 2010 extravaganza, developer NTT DoCoMo debuted a prototype of what Engadget is calling an "e-mail generator" (video after the break). Apparently, a user needs to provide the e-mail wizard with no more than three words before a message, tailored for the user's relationship with the recipient, is automatically rendered. The tone, between man and woman, ...

How many app stores does the world need? Well, if you ask Verizon, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, LG, and about 20 other cell phone carriers and manufacturers, at least one more. At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, a whopping 27 companies, claiming 3 billion customers between them, announced that they would be collaborating on an "open international applications platform." The initiative ...

For shame. We know good and well engineers can concoct energy-generating garb that actually looks good enough to wear, but evidently those fashion-minded gurus weren't hired for this project. Granted, we have all ideas the image you're quizzically staring at above is NTT's first go at a pair of power-packing sandals, but there's clearly a good ways to go before these things are cute / safe ...

If you're scouting the strange, the weird and the weirder, you'll find plenty to get absorbed in over at the research facilities of NTT DoCoMo. The Japanese giant is at it once more, but this time the invention is actually somewhat down to Earth. It's mission? To create a method for easily controlling a music interface (on a PMP or cellphone) with just your eyes. By rolling one's eyes and ...

Apparently July is a hot month for ad trials in Japan, as just weeks after a number of 65-inch digital posters were installed in a Tokyo train station, in flies word that yet another consumer-luring installation is being tested. Recruit and NTT Communications are delivering Scent-emitting LCD Display Systems to an underground mall in the heart of Japan, each of which rely on a 42-inch LCD and a ...

Those mobile mavens over at NTT DoCoMo, a major Japanese cell phone provider, are taking the lid off of a feature called Area Mail. Area Mail will blast all phones in a predetermined area with a text message. Pairing this location specific messaging service with a special ringtone could lead to a powerful emergency alert system. In the event of an earthquake or Godzilla attack an alert could be ...