Japan's Cellphone Edge: Japanese makers to go abroad with DoCoMo

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Monday, May 22, 2006

Japanese makers to go abroad with DoCoMo

According to Reuters, who picked up a story from Yomiuri Shimbun, DoCoMo is to make its all new handset models GSM-compatible within two years. This DoCoMo's move will provide a so-needed backing to its handset vendors to go overseas with their products. Few handset makers from Japan are successful abroad so far, but, thanks to DoCoMo, the number of them can grow significantly. Having expertise in 3G phone manufacturing, Japanese makers can become a real power in the competitive handset landscapes of Europe and North America. The question remains though: will they ever be able to go outside of DoCoMo i-mode's global umbrella?

Labels: DoCoMo

2 Comments:

At 5/21/06 11:56 PM, Anonymous said...: Sharp seemed to do rather well with their GX (10, 20 and 30) series of handsets made for Vodafone in EU..?!?
At 5/22/06 1:30 PM, Yaromir said...: Thanks for the input. I didn't know about Sharp's GX series being popular in EU. But besides Sharp, Sony Ericsson and Kyocera, there are plenty of other Japanese handset makers that can debut overseas with a little help from DoCoMo. Mitsubishi, Toshiba, Fujitsu and others have something compelling to show users from outside of Japan. Not all of them will be successful, but at least they can take a shot and see...