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DoCoMo and the i-Mode Ecosystem
Overview report of DoCoMo, one of the world's most advanced mobile operators, and i-Mode, the pioneering mobile internet system which started in Japan in February 1999. The report also describes DoCoMo's pioneering mobile payment systems.
Version 28 of January 6, 2011
approx. 197 pages, including approx. 48 Figures and 140 Photographs and 10 tables, pdf-format, 8 Mbyte
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17. i-Mode and handsets:
17.1 i-Mode handsets:
i-Mode started in February 1999 with simple handsets with black & white screens and low 9.6kbps data connectivity. Today's i-Mode handsets fall into several different classes:
- 900 series are the top range line
- 700 series are the mid-range line
- Raku-Raku phones for the silver market with are designed to be simple to use, with large letters and easy readability
- Children's phones for the pre-school and primary school segment with special security functions, and functions so that parents can remotely determine the location of the phone (and hopefully the child carrying the phone)
- "concept phones": phones which have special functions, or which do not fit into the standard ranges
17.2 i-Mode top range handsets - 900i series:
Mobile phones are typically specified by the mobile operator in Japan (DoCoMo) and mobile phones of a particular series (e.g. the current 906i series in Spring/Summer 2008) have a range of common functions, there is only a small subset of functions which are not common to all phones, and which are free for handset makers to differenciate their offerings.