(keitai-l) Re: i-mode in the UK

Actually, Beau, this will not extend the brand name. In a speech given last
Wednesday, Tatsuhiro Shukunami, Executive Direcror of Global Coordination
for NTT DoCoMo explicitly stated in a question (from me) that they will not
call the service in the US i-mode.  Further, depending on what part of WAP
it is that you are talking about--network protocols, or markup langauge--the
product offered through AT&T will not be WAP, since it will, according to
Shukunami, be served using a new browser, capable of reading both WML (WAP)
and cHTML pages.  Phone-sets will be produced by two makers, one Japanese,
and one US (guess who?).  And as of this writing, and any other timeline I
have heard from either AT&T or DoCoMo, the service is meant to be launched
next year, sometime in the spring.
-Nik Frengle
----- Original Message -----
From: "Beau Buck" <gr_fromage@earthlink.net>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Cc: "Beau Buck" <beau@modezilla.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 4:39 AM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: i-mode in the UK


> Well, DoCoMo announced it would launch i-Mode in Seattle, Washington (USA)
> in June of this year.  The fine print said it would be a WAP product.  So
in
> this case they will simply extend the brand name, but not the technology.
>
> Beau Buck
> CEO, Co-founder
> Modezilla
> www.modezilla.com
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Wallace" <paul.wallace@adcore.com>
> To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
> Cc: <lmcgurdy@agency.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 3:48 AM
> Subject: (keitai-l) Re: i-mode in the UK
>
>
> > Laura,
> >
> > Can't confirm or deny the availability of i-mode in Europe this month,
> > but there are a couple of inaccuracies in the Anywhereyougo article --
> > so I wouldn't put too much faith in the claim.
> >
> > A couple of things I noticed in this article:
> >
> > 1. As was firmly pointed out to me by folks at both Access and DoCoMo,
> > the markup language of i-mode is not cHTML, it is "i-mode compatible
> > HTML". If you look at the elements and attributes list of the two, there
> > are many additions in i-mode.
> >
> > 2. JPEG exclusion is not because of HTML, but because of the browser or
> > the hardware. I would expect JPG and PNG support in i-mode's future.
> >
> > 3. Tables are not mentioned in the i-mode list of tags on DoCoMo's site,
> > but the N503i (and maybe others, I didn't look) has a menu option to
> > turn table support off (the default is "on") -- don't know why someone
> > would turn it off...
> >
> > 4. Background color (bgcolor) IS supported in i-mode HTML, text and link
> > also (in English: http://www.nttdocomo.com/i/tag/body2.html).
> >
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Laura McGurdy [mailto:lmcgurdy@agency.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 6:40 PM
> > To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> > Subject: (keitai-l) i-mode in the UK
> >
> >
> > Anywhereyougo claim that i-mode is going to be launched in the UK by the
> > end
> > of this month (http://www.ayg.com/imode/Article.po?id=776284). Can
> > anyone
> > confirm this or point me to any URLs confirming this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --laura
> >
> >
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