Japan's wireless market week wrap-up

DoCoMo postpones launch of Nokia handset
NTT DoCoMo has delayed indefinitely the launch of a 3G phone from Nokia, saying the handset had software glitches. The phone, which is Nokia's first 3G model for DoCoMo, was scheduled to go on sale today.

DoCoMo achieves 2.5Gbps packet transmission
NTT DoCoMo announced that it achieved 2.5Gbps packet transmission in the downlink while moving at 20km/h.

Two new Symbian OS handsets announcement
With the launch of two Symbian OS handsets from Fujitsu (FOMA F702iD) and Sharp (FOMA SH702iD), the total number of Symbian handsets shipped in Japan increased to 24.

iPod in Japan faces stiffer competition from mobile phones
While Apple's iPod is enjoying 51.3% share of the domestic digital-music player market and iTunes online music store leads in song downloads, Japan's carriers and handset makers are plotting a counterstrike to topple Apple by shipping music phones with improved battery life and song higher-quality compression format and launching user-friendly online music stores. Apple's weakness in Japan is the lack of tie-ups with domestic labels, thus Aplle can offer a limited number of songs by Japanese pop-stars.