LISMO
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.
Name
LISMO is short for au Listen Mobile service. The "LIS" in "LISMO" is pronounced the same as "risu", the Japanese word for "squirrel".
Setting of Mascot
The mascot of this service is LISMO-kun. It is a silhoette of a squirrel carrying an orange logo with earphones connected to it. It is said to be born in Vienna, Austria, currently at the age of 0. It loves listening to music and watching movies, just like the regular au cell phones, on its free time. Some original goods of this mascot are sold only at the "LISMO FOREST" of KDDI Designing Studio.
Supported phones
LISMO is supported only by CDMA 1X WIN phones.
- Sony Ericsson W41S,"Walkman Phone" (W42S),W43S,W44S,W51S,"Walkman Phone" W52S,W53S
- Toshiba "Music-HDD" (W41T),W43T,W44T,W44TⅡ,W44TⅢ,W45T,"DRAPE" (W46T),W47T,W51T,W52T,W53T,W54T
- au design project "neon" (W42T by Toshiba),"Media Skin" (W52K by Kyocera)
- Sanyo W41SA,W42SA,W43SA,W51SA,W52SA,W53SA
- Hitachi W41H,W42H,W43H,W43HⅡ,W51H,W52SH,
- Casio W41CA,"G'zOne" (W42CA),W43CA,W51CA,W52CA,"EXILIM Phone" W53CA
- Kyocera W41K,W42K,W43K,W44K,W51K
- Sharp W41H,"AQUOS Phone" (W51H),W52SH
- Panasonic W51P,W52P
Features
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
File format
Under investigation
The music file has .KMF extension on the phone and becomes .KDR on the PC, the codec is HE-AAC with 48 kbit/s bitrate, which is same as au's full track ringtone service.
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.
Internationalization
This service is available only in Japan as of January 2006.