NTT DoCoMo's Pocket PC - Musea
I had to remove this report for a few days after reading this slightly unclear article about the Musea on the AsiaBizTech site. The article seems to suggest that the Musea has in-built FOMA communication capability (quote: 'first PDA terminal with FOMA built-in wireless communications functions on the operating system'), something I had not understood when I wrote the post below and so I removed the post thinking it was inaccurate. In reality after checking the DoCoMo site in Japanese and the press release in English I am reasonably confident that this is not the case. The original post follows:
See a report on Pocket PC Life. There's nothing that this Pocket PC can do that any other Japanese capable Pocket PC can't except m-stage visual. Why do NTT DoCoMo bother doing this? Surely they won't make money from selling the device itself. If it is anything like the G-FORT it will be priced lower than other Pocket PCs but will suffer from lack of third part peripheral support. They are already out of the race using an old generation processor, a 3.5" screen and only one expansion slot. The design is okay but the weight is still heavier than the Genio at 180g. I' sure DoCoMo would have been much better off investing the money in rolling out solutions and services for all the Pocket PCs out there from real consumer goods manufacturers, for example by releasing software for m-stage visual.
I wonder who makes this device? I saw the device and asked a few weeks ago at Wireless Japan but they wouldn't say. Doesn't look like a Casio. I'd guess some Taiwanese manufacturer this time round.
The Japanese page on the DoCoMo site for the device is here. The Windows CE Fan coverage (in Japanese) is here.
As reported in the Tokyo PC Users Group tpc.mobile newsgroup, Hitachi seem to have started shipping their previously business only WLAN PDA to private consumers. The site in Japanese is 
