Tag: NTT DoCoMo

  • My current mobile devices

    I bought Blackberry Curve 9300 in the middle of June for my main mobile phone I’m using daily and switched an account from b-mobile into NTT DoCoMo again by the Mobile Number Portability service. The b-mobile SIM card was what I got together with an iPhone 4 Hong Kong version. Still, the iPhone 4 was…

  • Japan’s mobile environment today

    Sorry for not updating the blog for a long time. These days I’m hanging out on Facebook and Twitter, rather than writing blog entries. Please visit my Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/masayuki.kawagishi or follow @_Yuki_K_ on Twitter 😉 I see that the world of mobile phones is rapidly changing for years. Nokia, one of the dominant…

  • Presentation by Ryuji Yamada / NTT DoCoMo山田社長の講演

    Presentation by Ryuji Yamada / NTT DoCoMo山田社長の講演

    日本文が後ろに続きます。 Last night I attended a meeting for alumni of Osaka University, where I graduated, to see the presentation by Ryuji Yamada, President and CEO of NTT DoCoMo, one of Japan’s mobile phone operators. Mr. Yamada is also a graduate from Osaka University and was invited to this meeting as a guest speaker. He talked…

  • Unlocking my Blackberry / ブラックベリーのSIMロック外し

    Unlocking my Blackberry / ブラックベリーのSIMロック外し

    日本文が後ろに続きます。 I’ve made my Blackberry Bold SIM-unlocked, because the Blackberry I bought in Japan was locked to NTT DoCoMo, a Japanese mobile phone carrier, so when I was abroad I had to fear the phone bill charging highly expensive roaming prices. Unlocking was easy: I got an unlock code for my device at http://expressunlockcode.com/bbexpress.aspx by…

  • I got Blackberry! / Blackberryをゲット

    日本文が後ろに続きます。 The nearest DoCoMo Shop had informed me that a new Blackberry device (Blackberry 8707h) had arrived, so I got there this Monday and bought it. The handset costed 28,000 Yen. Very reasonable. Setup is very easy. I keep three of my email addresses (including Blackberry-specific one) in this handset. I can catch incoming mails…

  • Blackberry to be released to Japanese individuals in August / Blackberryを日本でも個人向けに販売

    日本文が後ろに続きます。 NTT DoCoMo, one of Japan’s major cell phone carriers, announced that in August this year it would sell Blackberry devices to public. NTT DoCoMo is the only carrier that has the right to distribute Blackberry in Japan. Although Blackberry is today an essential communications tool for those from businesspersons to general people in the…