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• Tryp-Tech: ActFace Concept Cell Has Looks, 3 Touchscreens

  Published: August 6, 2007, 6:31 am

  Tags: Actface, Cellphone, Kddi, Touchscreen, Tryp Tech

  phone concept from au by KDDI. It laughs in the face of the iPhone and it's single touchscreen - with not one, not two, but three, and no visible traditional buttons. There's a video of the two front screens showing some impressive animation after the jump.Although it may seem like an unlikely concept, if it's going to happen anywhere then

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• KDDI's Infobar 2 announced for Japan

  Published: September 26, 2007, 5:14 am

  Tags: Infobar 2, Infobar2, Kddi

  under: Cellphones KDDI is back to show LG, Apple, and Samsung that a keypad totin' candybar can still bring the sex-ay. Meet the Infobar 2 for KDDI's CDMA-based au network, first peeped as a concept back in November as a possible followup to the wildly popular (in Japan anyway) first generation Infobar launched in 2003. Measuring 47 ×

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• KDDI’s Infobar 2 announced for Japan

  Published: September 26, 2007, 11:24 pm

  Tags: Gadgets, Technology News, General, Images, Mobile News, Daily Update, Infobar, Kddi

  KDDI is back to show LG, Apple, and Samsung that a keypad totin’ candybar can still bring the sex-ay. Meet the Infobar 2 for KDDI’s CDMA-based au network, first peeped as a concept back in November as a possible followup to the wildly popular (in Japan anyway) first generation Infobar launched in 2003. (more…) Gadgets, General,

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• Japanese research group developing next-next-gen optical Internet

  Published: September 30, 2007, 7:01 am

  Tags: Fujitsu, Hitachi, Internet, Japan, Kddi, Nec, Network, Ntt, Toshiba

  it, including NTT, Fujitsu, KDDI, Hitachi, Toshiba, and NEC. The system, which will cost a projected $260M over the next five years, will be able to support 100 billion devices but still maintain those gaudy transfer rates, even for mobile users. No word on when the tech will hit the States, sadly, but here's hoping. Read Permalink

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• Japan facing continuing deflation woes due to mobile phone price wars

  Published: October 4, 2007, 4:54 pm

  Tags: Financial, Kddi, Docomo, Services, Announcements, Deflation, Docomo, Falling, Japan, Kddi, Ntt, Price, Prices, War

  two mobile phone providers - KDDI and NTT DoCoMo. It seems too much of a good thing really can be bad. [Via: Yahoo] ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:Nokia may be in more hot water with Japan for overheating batteriesiPhone-like Nani phone to hit JapanClassic video game Geometry Wars goes mobile on Verizon WirelessMobile ad spending to triple in

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• KDDI cuts rates and fees, keeps deflating Japanese economy

  Published: October 5, 2007, 5:43 pm

  Tags: Kddi, Services, Announcements, Deflation, Drop, Fees, Japan, Kddi, Price, Rates, Slash

  Communications, expected, KDDI has cut their rates and fees in the ever-continuing battle to win over wireless subscribers. The wireless carrier will no longer be subsidizing handsets with new-activations, offering lower calling plan prices. KDDI customers can expect to pay 1,050 yen ($9) and 15.75 yen for 30 seconds of talk time, compared to

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• Samsung to start AMOLED phone production for KDDI Japan

  Published: October 18, 2007, 8:36 am

  Tags: Kddi, Samsung, Technologies, Kddi Amoled, Kddi New Phones, Kddi Samsung, Samsung Amoled

  deal, as both Samsung and KDDI haven’t provided more information about it. [Via: Unwired View] ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:KDDI announces Infobar 2 in JapanKDDI Busts Onto US MVNO Scene - KDDI Mobile To Launch In AprilNamco and KDDI to bring mobile games from Japan to North AmericaKDDI cuts rates and fees, keeps deflating Japanese

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• Pantech intros bone-conducting A1407PT handset

  Published: October 18, 2007, 11:58 pm

  Tags: A1407pt, Bone Condution, Bonecondution, Kddi, Pantech

  now headed straight for KDDI. Apart from that one unique feature, however, the phone looks to be a pretty basic clamshell, including a 2.4-inch QVGA display on the inside and a 96 x 64 display on the flip, along with a 1.3 megapixel camera, 20MB of internal memory, and the ever-present microSD slot for expansion. No word on what it'll cost,

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• Pantech A1407PT - bone conduction in a mobile phone

  Published: October 19, 2007, 3:05 pm

  Tags: Kddi, Pantech, Technologies, Devices, Announcements, A1407pt, Bone, Conduction, Technology

  memory, and microSD slot. KDDI in Japan will be getting top-billing as the carrier for the Pantech A1407PT. We hope the launch goes well enough for this trick tech to make it Stateside. If Bluetooth headsets can cut down ambient noise transmission, why can’t headsets? It’d be nice to see a high-end smartphone with some

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• Samsung prepping AMOLED handsets for KDDI

  Published: October 20, 2007, 7:52 pm

  Tags: Kddi, Samsung, Technologies, Devices, Announcements, Active, Amoled, Inforbar, Kddi, Matrix, Oled, Samsung

  handset displays for 4 new KDDI handsets. Not much of an announcement, except for the fact that these new handsets will be rocking Samsung’s Active-matrix OLED (AMOLED) displays! The KDDI handsets you see pictured above and below will all be fitted with Samsung’s power-saving but still brilliantly illuminated AMOLED displays in

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• Intra-Body Communication: Use Your Body to Download Data [Magic Touch]

  Published: November 12, 2007, 6:40 pm

  Tags: Data, Intra Body Communication, Kddi, Magic Touch, Music, Streaming, Video

  client via a handshake. KDDI's new Intra-Body Communication technology could make this a reality by using the human body as a conduit to transmit high-volume data. In the image above, the video is being transmitted from the girl's hand, through her body to the glasses, and out to the monitor. In a hands-on with the system, the team at

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• KDDI Develops Pirated-Video-Detecting Software [Piracy]

  Published: November 19, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Kddi, Piracy, Software, Youtube

  KDDI research labs in Japan has developed a new system for detecting pirated material on the internet automagically. By detecting whether the footage was shot on an amateur or professional camera, what method was used to encode it, and things of that nature, they claim they can detect illegal material with a 98% success rate. From what I can tell,

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• KDDI Develops Pirated-Video-Detecting Software

  Published: November 19, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Entertainment, Copyright, Detectors, Kddi, Piracy, Software, Video

  KDDI research labs in Japan has developed a new system for detecting pirated material on the internet automagically. By detecting whether the footage was shot on an amateur or professional camera, what method was used to encode it, and things of that nature, they claim they can detect illegal material with a 98% success rate. From what I can

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• Nike and KDDI bundle shoes with mobile phones

  Published: November 24, 2007, 9:38 am

  Tags: Kddi, Partnerships, Devices, Nike Id, Nike Inforbar 2, Nike Kddi, Nike Mobile Bundle

  manufacturer partnering with KDDI in Japan to offer the limited series of customizable shoes with KDDI’s Infobar 2. Just like the phone, the shoes will be also available in four different colors to match the phone’s look, and will be further customizable using the Nike ID feature. Starting December Nike will be accepting orders, but

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• DoCoMo and other Asian carriers eyeing FCC auction?

  Published: December 11, 2007, 6:15 pm

  Tags: 700mhz, Asia, Blackstone Group, Blackstonegroup, Docomo, Fcc, Kddi, Sk Telecom, Sktelecom

  well, with word that DoCoMo, KDDI, SK Telecom and even China (through the T-Mobile and Global Tower invested Blackstone Group) could be chipping in a few billion here and there to spice things up for Google and friends in the 700MHz C Block auction. DoCoMo, which got burned in the US a while back with pre-Cingular AT&T Wireless, mentioned to

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