You know how micro-blogging aka tweeting is getting popular these days with carriers all around the world rolling out services that make it easy for mobile users to share tidbits of information with their friends while on the go. Japanese NTT DOCOMO isn’t an exception, quite the contrary. However, they think there’s more they could offer rather than a simple Twitter client. That said, they are teaming-up with Twitter to “develop innovative applications and services” incorporating Twitter features for DOCOMO feature phones and smartphones.
For instance, one of the envisioned services will bring richer (real-time) search results to DOCOMO customers. Real-time tweets and other Twitter content will be added to the search results on the DOCOMO i-mode portal for feature phones and “docomo market” for smartphones. This service is expected to be launched for feature phones this summer and for smartphones later this year or early next year.
In addition, DOCOMO also plans to update the existing “touch and follow” application for feature phones, which will allow two DOCOMO customers to begin following each other by simply placing their phones together to exchange follow permissions via NFC. Kinda like Bump, though no bumping is required…