Cellphone PDF publishing

DoCoMo's iS series are usually an opportunity for it to warm over the current range, introducing some incremental improvements to keep things going until the next model number comes out. The 901iSs follow the trend, though it's interesting to see that FeliCa e-wallet support is now across the range, and that the standard pixel count for cameras is up to 2 megapixels. Another interesting development on the content front is that all handsets include a PDF viewer, and true to DoCoMo's history of getting its software ducks properly in a row for hardware launches, today sees a bunch of content providers announce that they'll be distributing cellphone-friendly PDFs of IPO prospectuses, newspapers, subway maps, and so forth. Game company Hudson is offering a PDF list of all the titles downloadable from its site, with clickable links to take you to the download pages. It's not rocket science, but it does advance the field of cellphone content that can be read offline, which at the moment is mostly confined to taking a snapshot of the text of a webpage for later reading.

[Via NTT DoCoMo: Press Release Article - NTT DoCoMo Develops FOMA 901iS and K-Tai Watch]