These include enhanced security for online banking and trading, increased functionality and enriched contents, like game download. Looking further ahead, DoCoMo has launched Vision 2010, a projection of what it expects to see in mobile communications 10 years from now. Innovations include global mobile conferencing, with video and simultaneous language translation. In true Japanese style, its plans get steadily more grandiose, culminating in a network of airships hovering over the country to convey the huge quantities of data at superfast speeds. Some of these plans may seem far out, but Western companies would be mad to ignore DoCoMo.
Japanese companies have a track record second to none when it comes to innovation.
The Sony Walkman appeared from nowhere to take the world by storm.