"We're trying to learn from i-mode, " says Tord Wingren, director of Ericsson's 3G phones unit.
Both Foma and i-mode prices are likely to fall as the 3G services become available.
Its own model for DoCoMo's i-mode Internet service looks unlike anything it sells in Europe.
The e-trucking experience suggests that i-mode may turn out to be far more than just a fad.
Their preparations started in 1996, when DoCoMo laid the groundwork on i-mode, its spectacularly successful mobile Internet service.
Unless fundamental changes occur in the mentality of the wireless industry worldwide i-mode will remain an isolated incident.
Less than 18 months after launching, there are already over 7, 000 websites that have been converted for access by i-mode.
Though e-mail been a success for Japan's NTT DoCoMo's i-Mode service, some observers are skeptical about the breadth of unified messaging's appeal.
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DoCoMo's I-Mode service has twelve million subscribers, compared with AOL's 440, 000 subscribers.
DoCoMo is expected to offer AOL the technology used in its "i-mode" internet access service, while the DoCoMo service will benefit from the AOL content.
They're also looking over their shoulder at Japan's wildly popular i-mode service, whose 10 million users have access to around 5, 000 gaming and entertainment sites.
One reason that telecoms firms and handset manufacturers are so optimistic about the prospects for third-generation services is the wild success in Japan of i-mode.
The nearest thing the GSM networks have to i-mode is a service known as Wireless Application Protocol, or WAP, launched at the beginning of this year.
DoCoMo's i-mode mobile internet service has surprised some analysts with the scale of its popularity and encouraged other operators worldwide over the prospects for next-generation mobile telecoms.
But a year ago, his boss launched TraBox, a website aimed at brokering deals between drivers and cargo firms, designed for use on NTT DoCoMo's i-mode service.
But the capital required was too much until i-mode came along.
Satoru Ohyama, a managing director at Merrill Lynch Japan, claims that Bard anticipated the boom in i-mode mobile phones by predicting a "telephone computer" that would be a hot investment.
Although it is not a full third-generation service, i-mode already offers some multimedia services and Internet access, which has helped it to gain 30m customers in Japan in three years.
MessageVine's server supports interaction via its own PC client or those of AOL's ICQ or Microsoft's MSN Messenger, and also from mobile phones using WAP, SMS, or Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo's I-mode system.
Even Japan's NTT DoCoMo, which is launching its successful i-mode service in Europe this month, gave warning on March 15th that it may have to write down the value of some of its overseas investments.
He also suggests the tiny, featherweight i-mode phones might not be suitable for 3G technology because their screens are too small for video images. (Actually, some i-mode phones come with larger screens.) "The phones aren't all that easy to use, " says Neuvo.
To try to make up for the time lag, the two European companies have set up research offices in Japan and routinely conduct market surveys to understand what makes i-mode tick and, by extension, how consumers might react to high-speed Net access from their phones.
And what I love about Jill is that - I think we've definitely been in this glam mode for a really long time.
Movie-mode also helped when I was on an airplane when the person pulls their seat all the way back.
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"All I did was work, '' remembers the Crane Worldwide Logistics executive, adding: "I was never effective in crisis-management mode.
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Unlike the inventory, both forging AND accessing the map that I love so much while in co-op mode takes over the entire screen.
Man must approach the world through the other mode, called Encounter, or I-You.
"I just went into survival mode, " said Haslet-Davis, a dance instructor at the Arthur Murray Dance Studios in Boston.
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The issue I have is that ETFs are in massive over-hype mode.
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