KDDI Corp. in April will release Japan's first smartphone compatible with WiMAX high-speed wireless communications.
- Japanese enjoy an ever-broadening array of smartphones to choose from.
The cell phone service provider will sell EVO, a WiMAX-compatible phone made by Taiwan's HTC Corp. KDDI affiliate UQ Communications Inc. has set up WiMAX base stations. With around 600,000 current subscribers, the system has ample room for more.
WiMAX enables data to be sent and received at five times the speed of regular cell phone service. This could make smartphones more convenient, since many are used to access the Internet. The growing popularity of smartphones is squeezing cell phone companies' service capacity, and WiMAX compatibility could ease the burden on the mobile communication networks.
Apple Inc.'s iPhone enjoys popularity in the smartphone market, but KDDI aims to fight back by offering models equipped with unique functionality. KDDI also seeks to set itself apart by the enhanced convenience of being able to send and receive large volumes of data at high speed.
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