Japanese mobile giant NTT DoCoMo and U.S.-based Motorola are teaming to develop a multimodal handset targeted at Japanese business users who must use the mobile phones in other parts of the world. The move highlights the realization by many large mobile carriers and handset makers, including Verizon and Qualcomm, that to compete on the global scale, they must offer multimodal phones that work with the different wireless technologies and standards of the world.
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Posted by: Jay Lyman August 25, 2004 11:59 AMJapanese mobile giant NTT DoCoMo and U.S.-based Motorola are teaming to develop a multimodal handset targeted at Japanese business users who must use the mobile phones in other parts of the world. The move highlights the realization by many large mobile carriers and handset makers, including Verizon and Qualcomm, that to compete on the global scale, they must offer multimodal phones that work with the different wireless technologies and standards of the world.