Motorola M1000

NTT DoCoMo has just released the Motorola M1000, a handset that can run MS Word, Excel, PDF and PowerPoint (further details at Mobilemag).

Motorola seems to be responding to the fact that foreign-made handsets are facing huge difficulties in being accepted by Japanese customers, who have high expectations not only in technological specifications, but also design and user-friendlyness. The M1000 might signal that Motorola has given up on trying to catch up with Japanese manufacturers in this field, and instead focus on a completely different type of handset which no Japanese manufacturer has come up with so far - a cross between PDA and mobile phone targeted at business users. It will be interesting to see whether this strategy is successful.