Japanese cell phone service rings in Linux, VOIP
The Japanese, always vanguards in technology design and adoption, are modeling the curve on lower cost, transitional technology (for that truly mobile experience).
Japanese cell phone service provider NTT DoCoMo is urging its handset suppliers to build Linux-based cell phones, a milestone for the operating system’s acceptance by the wireless industry.
In related news, as reported by a Japanese colleague:
Yesterday’s news from Japan : DoCoMo will start dual mode services both 3G FOMA and wireless LAN VoIP mobile from spring next year. People can talk through VoIP when you are in the area of wireless LAN as an extention call. Outside of LAN, it connects to 3G FOMA network automatically. DoCoMo will try to extend the waiting mode life time as IEEE802.11b needs more battery than FOMA from here after to be applied to newer terminal line up.
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