W-CDMA phone's platform to be created by Japanese firms together.(Sharp Corp. (Japan), Renesas Technology Corp., NTT DoCoMo Inc., Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Fujitec Company Ltd. team up)(Brief article)

Asia Pacific Telecom, March, 2006

Sharp, Renesas Technology, NTT DoCoMo, Mitsubishi Electric, and Fujitsu are teaming up to develop a complete mobile-phone platform. The platform developed by these Japanese firms supports EDGE and HSPDA technologies, with complete development support for middleware, operating systems, and drivers.

Mobile-phone makers do not need to develop a different system for common handset functions. The platform is capable of being executed directly as a base system for W-CDMA phones.