Japan: Fujitsu launches the ARROWS Tab F-05E 10.1-inch tablet with NTT Docomo.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jes�s.       

Japan: Fujitsu launches the ARROWS Tab F-05E 10.1-inch tablet with NTT Docomo.

Fujitsu has announced the immediate availability of its new ARROWS Tab F-05E 10.1-inch tablet. Unfortunately for most of us, the slim, water- and dust-resistant, better-than-HD resolution Android 4.0 mobile computing unit is being released through NTT Docomo in Japan only.

Similar in many ways to the company's Stylistic M532, which was released in the U.S. in October, the ARROWS Tab F-05E also benefits from 32 GB of onboard storage with a microSD card for expansion, an HDMI interface for connection to a big screen TV, 802.11b/g/n wireless LAN, and built-in stereo speakers. It's powered by an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor, too, but runs at 1.7 GHz and has a fifth low-power core that can kick in when running less demanding apps. 

The 9.9 mm thick F-05E features a 10.1-inch, 1920 x 1200 resolution display panel, is the first Japanese tablet to be supplied with Dolby Digital Plus audio technology, and has been treated to a whopping 10,080 mAh battery that's compatible with high speed chargers. It's also been sealed against water and dust penetration to IPX5/8 standards.

The ICS tablet comes with a new switch-enabled smart fingerprint sensor for security-conscious enterprise users, and a Family Mode feature which allows users to switch to a home screen configuration that best suits individual needs and abilities.

There's also an enhanced version of Fujitsu's Human-Centric Engine that's capable of tailoring the tablet experience to the age of the user. It can customize the screen's color balance, for instance, to compensate for a decline in color sensitivity that comes with advancing years. Additionally, Clear Touch technology is reported to make touch-based operations a little more obvious.

Completing the tech specs checklist are 2 GB of RAM, Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity, support for Docomo LTE Xi high speed connectivity, the ability to wirelessly connect to DLNA-compliant devices, and an 8.1-megapixel rear-facing camera with an Exmor RS for mobile CMOS image sensor.

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NTT DOCOMO has developed a dual-mode small-cell base station,supporting both 3G and LTE.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jes�s.

NTT DOCOMO has developed a dual-mode small-cell base station,supporting both 3G and LTE.

NTT DOCOMO has developed a dual-mode small-cell base station, or femtocell, supporting 3G (W-CDMA) and LTE simultaneously. The dual-mode femtocell will be commercially launched from December and offers for improved service coverage in indoor locations such as offices, shops and homes.

According to company its new femtocell, which weighs only 0.7 kg and measures just 18.5cm by 17.5 cm by 4.5 cm (H x W x T), provides 3G/LTE service coverage in a range of up to several tens of meters, depending on actual conditions. 

Its plug-and-play function automatically configures itself to the surrounding radio environment, enabling users to quickly enjoy wider, higher-quality and more cost-effective coverage simply by connecting the femtocell to a broadband fixed line.

DOCOMO has been marketing 3G femtocells for improved indoor coverage since 2007. With the new dual-mode 3G/LTE femtocell, DOCOMO looks forward to providing enhanced indoor environments for voice and data mobile communication via its FOMA� 3G and Xi� LTE services.

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Japan: NTT Docomo launched automatic free voice translation service.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jes�s.

Japan: NTT Docomo launched automatic free voice translation service.

Japanese mobile operator NTT Docomo has launched an automatic translation service for voice calls. The LTE/3G-compatible service provides rapid translation between Japanese and Chinese, English and Korean.

The translation is processed by the network, not through the handset or an application, and then the translation provided through voice synthesis.

The service can be used two ways: phone-to-phone or face-to-face. From late November, face-to-face interpretation will be available between Japanese and ten other languages. To use the service, the caller needs the free Android app and the service is also provided for free but voice and data charges apply.

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Video: NTT Docomo Hands-Free Videophone for futuristic glasses-type HMD devices.

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Video: NTT Docomo  Hands-Free Videophone for futuristic glasses-type HMD devices.

NTT Docomo has developed the Hands-Free Videophone, which enables video calls without having to hold the camera. This is part of docomo's research on creating future glasses-type devices.

The Hands-Free Videophone captures the user's face with three cameras in each of the left and right sides of the frames. The video sent to the other person is created by combining the pictures with a pre-rendered 3D model of the users face.

"Each camera has 720p resolution, and a fish-eye lens, with a 180-degree field of view. This is the High Definition picture currently being captured in real time. If you look at the face, you can see it's really distorted, because the fish-eye lens is so close. The distortion is compensated, and the picture is combined with a 3D model of the person in the computer. Currently, priority is given to the part around the eyes. As you can see when the man closes his eyes, the eyelids and the corners of the eyes appear quite realistic. Such a level of realism is hard to achieve with models like CG-based avatars, where parts are overlaid on the face."

Currently, the resolution isn't high enough to handle the mouth and upper body parts of the picture, so those are based on CG. The orientation of the face is based on six-axis sensor data, and the motion of the mouth is based on audio data from the microphone. 

There's also a camera on the back of the device, so more realistic video calls can be achieved by combining the person's image with the actual background.

"So, in the picture the other person receives, it looks as if there's a virtual camera taking pictures from in front of this person's face. In the current prototype, we haven't yet built in a HMD. But we'd like to do that in the future, to make it feel as if the picture of the other person is floating before your eyes. We think it could be possible to make it seem as if you're having a face-to-face dialog anywhere, even in an empty outdoor space."

If the camera resolution is increased dramatically, to 4K or 8K, it'll be possible to increase the amount of actual video used. Ultimately, the aim is for most of the face to be recreated from actual video.

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DoCoMo from Japan to launch Samsung Galaxy phone, tablet this year

(Reuters) - Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc will start selling Samsung Electronics' smartphone and tablet computer this year, with the South Korean maker hoping to win over Japanese consumers that have warmed to foreign devices thanks to Apple's iPhone.

DoCoMo, Japan's top mobile phone operator, has been expanding its smartphone line-up to attract consumers and increase data usage, and will sell Samsung's Galaxy S phone from late October in Japan.
That will be followed by the launch of the Galaxy Tab tablet computer, which competes with Apple's iPad from late November.

Foreign mobile phone makers have long struggled to crack the uniquely developed Japanese market, and even Nokia, the world's biggest handset manufacturer, has been forced to retreat from the market in the past.
Smartphones had a slower start in Japan, given that ordinary cellphones here were already capable of connecting to the Internet and playing music, but the iPhone helped change all that.

Samsung debuted Galaxy S, its answer to the iPhone and its first smartphone sold globally through some 100 carriers, in June. Galaxy S is based on Google's Android operating system.
KDDI also unveiled a smartphone made by Sharp Corp on Monday.

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