“namikiteru™” service adds Chinese, Japanese and Korean language E-mail for BlackBerry® devices
New York, January 10, 2006 — NTT DoCoMo USA, Inc., the American subsidiary of NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Japan’s largest mobile communications company, announced today that it will commercially launch “CJK namimail™”, which enables the reading of email in Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters, via Research In Motion’s BlackBerry devices. The service will be available from January 17, 2006.
Available to corporate customers using BlackBerry handhelds activated on the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, “CJK namimail” provides the capability to display simplified and traditional Chinese, Korean and Japanese characters.
In addition to usage-based charges for DoCoMo USA’s “namikiteru” Public Wireless LAN Internet access service, the fee for CJK namimail will be $8.99/month with an annual contract and a one-time activation fee of $20.
For more information, please refer to the Appendix or http://www.namikiteru.com.
namikiteru and namimail are trademarks of NTT DoCoMo USA, Inc. in the United States.
BlackBerry® is a trademark of Research In Motion in Canada, the United States and other countries.
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Requirements: “CJK namimail” will only operate on BlackBerry handhelds activated on the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. The company e-mail server environment must meet the following requirements:
BlackBerry Enterprise Server v4.0.1
Microsoft® Exchange Server 2000 and above, or IBM® Lotus Domino Server 6.5 and above
Supported Devices: Available to corporate customers using BlackBerry handhelds activated on the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, “CJK namimail” provides the capability to display simplified and traditional Chinese, Korean and Japanese characters.
How to use: “CJK namimail” will be downloaded to the PC and installed into the BlackBerry device via USB cable, using the BlackBerry Desktop Manager (at least v4.0). After installation of CJK namimail, there will be a new sub menu item under your message’s Option menu. Simply select “namimail for BlackBerry” to view emails in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Please note that the original Japanese-only namimail software must be uninstalled before the CJK version can be installed.
Specification: Supported characters: Simplified and traditional Chinese, Korean and Japanese characters compliant with CJK Unified Ideographs.
How to Subscribe: Please contact cjknamimail @namikiteru.com.
