Japanese companies to create new dual-mode 3G platform
By Collin Kemble 
posted Feb 17th 2006 11:14AM
posted Feb 17th 2006 11:14AM
The worldwide adoption of 3G networks has gone at, shall we say, a mind-numbingly slow pace (especially for those
of us in the States), but in an effort to fix this problem, NTT DoCoMo, Renesas Technology, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi
Electric, and Sharp have announced that they will jointly develop a new dual-mode cellphone platform, which will
support both HSDPA / W-CDMA and GSM / GPRS / EDGE in a single chip. The goal, of course, is to increase features while
cutting power, cost, and space, but their new platform probably won't see the light of day until the summer of 2007.
But the day it's finally released, it should make a bit of improvement in the lives of many a globe-trotting playboys
and international businessmen extraordinaire.
today is the day
This is also a smart move by cooperation of the Japanese carrier and handset device OEM and the Govt. By having dual mode phones in development the device OEM can have a better chance of opening up the US and Euro markets, where they do not have much market share. By doing so DoCoMo can see lower cost handsets from the home based OEMs as their volume goes. The govt, get to have people employed and tax revenue. The Japanese can not afford to be overrun by the Korean and Chinese OEMs as they are right now.