DoCoMo's WiFi cellphone announced
DoCoMo has announced the much-rumoured NEC N900iL, its first attempt at a cellphone with wireless LAN included. It's aimed firmly at the corporate user, and shaves off a few functions common to the rest of DoCoMo's FOMA 900i series (large-sized Java apps, videophone avatars, infra-red remote control). However, it adds a browser that can be used either over WiFi or the packet network, a "presence" function to indicate whether a person you've registered is around or not (this only works with DoCoMo's corporate Passage Duple service, which doubles the number of your passages), and an instant messenger. The usual gear—such as a megapixel camera and videophone functions—are unharmed, and the standby and talk time are impressive for a wireless VoIP handset, at 230 hours (150 in dual cellphone/WiFi mode) and 160 minutes, respectively. Comes in one colour, silver, because silver is the colour of the future. Looks like we're going to be seeing more of these, so it seems like the time to ask: what would you want from a WiFi cellphone?
