LISMO

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LISMO is an online music service provided by au, a Japanese mobile phone brand run by KDDI, a Japanese telecommunication company. This service uses a mobile phone as a music player. This service was introduced on January 19, 2006, and the service began operating at the end of January in Japan. The first mobile phone which supports LISMO was sold on January 26, 2006.

1 Name
2 Supported phones
3 Features
4 Internationalization
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Name

LISMO is short for au Listen Mobile service. A "Risu", or also "Lisu" as Japanese pronunciation, is the Japanese word for "squirrel", so the LISMO mascot is a squirrel carrying a mobile phone with earphones connected to it.

[edit] Supported phones

LISMO is supported only by CDMA 1X WIN phones.

Sony Ericsson W41S
Toshiba "Music-HDD" W41T
au design project/Toshiba "neon" W42T
Sanyo W41SA
Hitachi W41H
Casio W41CA
Kyocera W41K
Toshiba W43T
Casio "G'z One" W42CA
Sony Ericsson "Walkman Keitai" W42S
Toshiba W44T

[edit] Features

[edit] Function overview

This system provides the following functions;

Listen to music on a mobile phone and/or a personal computer.
Download and share music on a mobile phone and/or a personal computer.
Copy music from a CD (compact disc) to a mobile phone.
Share playlists with other LISMO users.
Use downloaded music as a ringtone
Backup address book data etc. to a personal computer

[edit] File format

Under investigation

The music file has .KMF extention on the phone and becomes .KDR on the PC, the codec is HE-AAC with 64kbps bitrate, which is same as au's full track ringtone service.

[edit] Core services

au Music Player

A music player application for au’s mobile phone. Music on the handset can be managed through this application program.
au Music Port

A mobile phone data managing application for a personal computer. This application is used to share and backup data from a mobile phone. Manages not only music data, but also other data in the mobile phone like camera data, PIM data, etc. Supports only Microsoft Windows
au Music Store

A service similar with the iTunes Music Store. Customers can download and purchase music with PC. The average price of one song is about 315 Yen (including taxes) and there are 20,000 songs available at the beginning of service.
Uta Tomo (うたとも) (TM)

Play list sharing service. Works over au's server.