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ZTE Mobile Devices unveiled “mamorino”– the first VoLTE kids watch.
The waterproof and dustproof watch, which was developed for preschool or young children, offers a touch panel and speech recognition.
Talk time is approximately 170 minutes (VoLTE), with continuous standby time of approximately 130 hours (4G LTE).
KDDI and the Okinawa Cellular Telephone Company plan to launch the product in late March.
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From the Graveyard
You just read about KDDI. One of the companies whose work it now carries:
KDD Corporation built Japan's specialist international telephone and data carrier. What became of it?
KDD Corporation brought Japan's specialist international telephone and data carrier to Telecom. That work was distinctive enough to lead to its merger with KDDI. The standalone name now passes into the archive — but the team and technology continue inside KDDI today. One of 430 names here whose work outlived the company.
From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about All. A technology from the archive that helped get us here:
Google/Alphabet Project Loon served 2011–2021. What ultimately replaced it?
Google/Alphabet Project Loon solar-powered balloons drifting in the stratosphere (~20 km), steering by rising and falling into different wind layers, relaying LTE from ground stations to phones far below. Its job passed to Unit economics — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.
