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The reason why NTT DoCoMo does not like Microsoft powered cell phones - revealed December 05, 2004 [General] | By Edward J. R. While previously we were reporting that NTT DoCoMo decided to use Linux (mainly) and Symbian it in its upcoming 3G smartphones, now new piece of information appeared. 
Takumi Suzuki, spokesman of NTT DoCoMo has said: To tell you the truth, we don't like ... [and] we don't have a plan to invest in [Microsoft] Windows, Windows is not for the mobile space, the files are big. Incredible! Actually all contemporary Microsoft cell phones - Pocket PC and MS Smartphone - contain .NET Framework burned into ROM and actually .NET programs are thus incredibly small, because all the things needed are already in ROM! NTT DoCoMo is a muster operator, a role model for other operators and other operators often were following this what NTT DoCoMo was doing: NTT DoCoMo was the first to offer cell phones with wireless Java (even before J2ME MIDP existed) and it was the first to use operator branding, where brand of the operator is on the phone more visible than brand of the vendor (brand of the vendor in NTT DoCoMo cell phones is sometimes not visible at all). Therefore it is bad that Microsoft failed to convicnce NTT DoCoMo. This is particularly strange because many Microsoft employees from Windows Mobile division were visiting Japan to learn about how to build cell phones - including Derek Brown. Apparently nothing came out of these visits. But bad luck of Microsoft in cell phone industry in Asia does not end with Japanese NTT DoCoMo! Actually several big Chinese hardware manufacturers are preparing many Linux powered cell phones (smartphones) and worst of all: Microsoft still is not taking seriously this Chinese Linux danger!  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 5 Comments ]
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