Japan is crazy for cell phones. Here a man downloads a tune to a Sanyo RZ-J91 cell phone using a proprietary system called "Keitai de Music." The phone arrives in Japan on November 30. Japan is way ahead of the States in utilizing cell phones for Internet access and music. They will be introducing W-CDMA next (wideband CDMA), creating even more possibilities for the smart phones.
SANYO Unveils World's Lightest & Thinnest CDMA Portable Phone
On Exhibition at Telecom99
Tokyo, October 4, 1999---SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., a leader in mobile communications, succeeded in developing the world's smallest, ultra-thin CDMA portable phone. This will be on exhibition at Telecom99, which opens in Geneva, Switzerland from October 10th to October 17th. SANYO plans to commercialize this new product within the year of 2000.
Overview
The global CDMA market is expected to greatly expand to 47 million units in 1999 and 87 million units in the year 2000.
The utilization of CDMA portable phones will accelerate steadily in the future, in dealing with such conditions as high speed data communications, high efficiency of radio wave utilization and existing communications systems (GSM, AMPS, etc.).
The size & weight of the phones are expected to become lighter & thinner through the pursuit of both portability and ease of use.
SANYO began supplying CDMA phones overseas in October of 1998 to Sprint PCS, America's top mobile communications provider, in the domestic Japanese market in April of 1999 and with Shinsegi Telecom Inc. of South Korea in June of 1999. SANYO plans to provide 1.7 million CDMA phones in 1999 worldwide.
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Created : November 10, 1998 Last updated : November 5, 2001
