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Is it real?
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Posted by: j o h n ( e )

I downloaded a FOMA commercial starring Utada Hikaru. The commercial seems to imply that the phone is streaming live video to the other person that she's talking to [using the same phone]. Does this really exist in Japan already? If so, how do you go about paying for this service? [is like paying for GPRS [per kb]? ]

Posted by: schmoe

Yup, thats a real phone and service! Its only available in the central area of Tokyo, but really neat. I'm not sure how payments work though, I'd guess probably monthly because video takes a lot of bandwidth.

Posted by: j o h n ( e )

wow not bad at all

Why can't Japan just take over the world ?

If anyone wants to see the ad pm me and i can send it to ur email...

Posted by: peen

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Originally posted by j o h n ( e )
I downloaded a FOMA commercial starring Utada Hikaru]

ooo shes nice....

Posted by: j o h n ( e )

indeed, but i'm more of an AYU fan myself

Posted by: psycho-

It's a crappy service...it makes J-Phone's phone signal look like good.

-It's theoretical 384kbps, but it tops out usually at 80-90 (approx same speed as AU by KDDI or Verizon or Sprint)
- Handsets usually have 1 hour of talktime and 50 hours standby...they just recently introduced a handset that hits up to 100 hours standby time.
-Handsets are notorious for heating up after a few minutes of usage.
-It's W-CDMA...it's not spectrally efficient so it might become overloaded pretty fast...that's only if people sign up
-It's cost prohibitive. It's almost 400-500/handset vs. AU by KDDI's 200/handset.
-Monthly costs are prohibitive - About 100 bucks/month starting
-It's not backwards compatible - You have to carry around to handsets if you leave the few major cities that have coverage. Both phones usually have to be turned on becuase in-city coverage is poor. (AU by KDDI 3G CDMA phones are backwards compatible)
- The phones are bulky - They are heavier and bigger than previous DoCoMo Phones
-Nobody likes it -only 100k people have subscribed to FOMA in the span of a year, well over 1 million on already signed up on AU in just since april of this year.

NTT DoCoMo is off it's rocker.