Openwave Supports I-Mode in Europe

(Openwave soportara imode en Europa)

An agreement between NTT DoCoMo and Openwave had been sign for supporting this technology in all products of Openwave(servers and clients)

Today 51 mobile device manufacturers license the Openwave Mobile Browser, which has shipped in more than 600 million handsets and supports mobile phone networks in use around the world, including WCMDA, CDMA, GSM, TDMA, iDEN, PHS, and PDC.

The Openwave notice

As I can understand(with my more than 5 years old experience in mobility), imode hasn't any sense, but Openwave have taken her decision. Perhaps NTT Docomo has given enough money to Openwave.

Imode as a language(real cHTML) will lose the battle with a more standardized XHTML(Visual Studio .Net 2005 write it as default markup language). Imode as a platform will lose the battle with the phones which use standard internet.

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