Four of the Japanese giant companies NTT DoCoMo, Renesas, Fujitsu and Sharp have announced that they plan to jointly develop the SH-Mobile G4 single-chip LSI device, and a platform incorporating it, to support the HSUPA1/HSDPA2/W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS/EDGE (2G) mobile telephony standards.

The new SH-Mobile G4 will be fabricated with 45-nm process technology to [...]

NTT DoCoMo launched the new Symbian based phone, FOMA SH706i. The sliding phone is manufactured by Sharp– the largest phone manufacturer in Japan. The FOMA SH706i phone has a 3 inch wide VGA, 2 megapixel camera, 1seg, DOLBY mobile and a full slide style design. This phone is part of DoCoMo’s summer 2008 models and [...]

London, UK - Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DOCOMO announced today their intent to unite Symbian OS(TM), S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) to create one open mobile software platform. Together with AT&T, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone they plan to establish the Symbian Foundation to extend the appeal of this unified [...]

“Japan’s NTT DoCoMo Inc is considering a tie-up with Google Inc., adopting the Web giant’s search and email features in its mobile phone Internet service, company sources said on Tuesday.”