(keitai-l) PlayMode: DoCoMo and Sony are to make an iMode PlayStation

From: calvin lash <calvin-lash_at_hitachi-cs.co.jp>
Date: 08/02/00
Message-ID: <39877209.E72D582D@hitachi-cs.co.jp>
Yesterday's DoCoMo and Sony PlayStation deal (as well as the AOL and
DoCoMo tie-up) has set a buzz about town. 

In its typically cryptic manner, the business section of today's Daily
Gomiuri <http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/index-e.htm> tersely reports that:

 "Under the agreement NTT DoCoMo and SCEI [Sony Computer Entertainment
Inc] will combine the PlayStation combined with conventional i-mode
mobile phones, Java-enabled i-mode phones and next-generation mobile
communications system, known as W-CDMA.  The specific content of the new
service is still under consideration, the two companies said".

Ahhhhh, now that's clear. 

L8r........
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NTT DoCoMo, Sony Crystallize Wireless PlayStation Pact  
--Newsbytes -- full text at:  http://www.nbnn.com/pubNews/00/153000.html

Development will revolve around PlayStation combining with a currnet
i-mode phone, with a Java-enabled i-mode phone, and with new mobile
communications systems being rolled out in Japan such as W-CDMA
(wideband code division multiple access).  NTT DoCoMo added that a
connecting cable was to be developed by Sony and both companies were
encouraging software companies to "develop new services for a potential
new i-mode/Playstation entertainment network."
Received on Wed Aug 2 03:52:23 2000