LISMO
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LISMO is an online music service
provided by au, a Japa
nese 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. Since 2008,KDDI and Okinawa Cellular introduced 'LISMO Video', a new service with new means to enjoy video content as well.
The mascot of this service is LISMO-kun. It is a silhouette of a squirrel
carrying an orange logo with earphones connected to it. Some original goods of this mascot are sold only at the "LISMO FOREST" of KDDI Designing Studio
.
Released in 2006
Released in 2007
Released in 2008
Released in 2009
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.
artists. On March 5, 2008, an album titled "Best of LISMO!" was released. The album contains all 10 songs used in LISMO commercials that aired by the Summer 2007.
List of songs used in the commercial (in order of which the commercial aired):
Online music store
An online music store is an online business which sells audio files, usually music, on a per-song and/or subscription basis. It may be differentiated from music streaming services in that the music store offers the actual music file, while streaming services offer partial or full listening without...
provided by au, a Japa
Japa
Japa is a spiritual discipline involving the meditative repetition of a mantra or name of a divine power. The mantra or name may be spoken softly, enough for the practitioner to hear it, or it may be spoken purely within the recitor's mind...
nese mobile phone brand run by KDDI
KDDI
is a Japanese telecommunications operator formed in October 2000 through the merger of DDI Corp., KDD Corp., and IDO Corp. It has its headquarters in the Garden Air Tower in Iidabashi, Chiyoda, Tokyo....
, a Japanese telecommunication company. This service uses a mobile phone
Mobile phone
A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...
as a music player
Music player
Music player can refer to:*audio player , music playing software running on a computer.*digital audio player, hardware device for playing back music.-See also:* Various types of musicians...
. 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. Since 2008,KDDI and Okinawa Cellular introduced 'LISMO Video', a new service with new means to enjoy video content as well.
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
Squirrel
Squirrels belong to a large family of small or medium-sized rodents called the Sciuridae. The family includes tree squirrels, ground squirrels, chipmunks, marmots , flying squirrels, and prairie dogs. Squirrels are indigenous to the Americas, Eurasia, and Africa and have been introduced to Australia...
carrying an orange logo with earphones connected to it. Some original goods of this mascot are sold only at the "LISMO FOREST" of KDDI Designing Studio
KDDI Designing Studio
KDDI DESIGNING STUDIO, also known as , is KDDI's consumer showroom in Harajuku.-Overview:KDDI Designing Studio was built on March 4, 2005 in Harajuku.. The showroom is 8 minutes walk from Harajuku Station Takeshita Street exit...
.
Supported phones
LISMO is supported only by CDMA 1X WIN phones.Released in 2006
- CasioCasiois a multinational electronic devices manufacturing company founded in 1946, with its headquarters in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Casio is best known for its electronic products, such as calculators, audio equipment, PDAs, cameras, musical instruments, and watches...
: W41CA,"G'zOne" (W42CA),W43CA - HitachiHitachi, Ltd.is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Marunouchi 1-chome, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The company is the parent of the Hitachi Group as part of the larger DKB Group companies...
: W41H, W42H, W43H, W43HⅡ - KyoceraKyocerais a multinational manufacturer based in Kyoto, Japan. It was founded as in 1959 by Kazuo Inamori and renamed in 1982. The company has diversified its founding technology in ceramic materials through internal development as well as strategic mergers and acquisitions...
: W41K, W42K, W43K, W44K - SanyoSanyois a major electronics company and member of the Fortune 500 whose headquarters is located in Moriguchi, Osaka prefecture, Japan. Sanyo targets the middle of the market and has over 230 Subsidiaries and Affiliates....
: W41SA, W42SA, W43SA - SharpSharp Corporationis a Japanese multinational corporation that designs and manufactures electronic products. Headquartered in Abeno-ku, Osaka, Japan, Sharp employs more than 55,580 people worldwide as of June 2011. The company was founded in September 1912 and takes its name from one of its founder's first...
: W41SH - Sony EricssonSony EricssonSony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB is a joint venture established on October 1, 2001 by the Japanese consumer electronics company Sony Corporation and the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson to manufacture mobile phones....
: W41S,"Walkman Phone" (W42S), W43S, W44S - ToshibaToshibais a multinational electronics and electrical equipment corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is a diversified manufacturer and marketer of electrical products, spanning information & communications equipment and systems, Internet-based solutions and services, electronic components and...
: "Music-HDD" (W41T),W43T, W44T, W44TⅡ, W44TⅢ, W45T, "DRAPE" (W46T), W47T - au design project: "neon" (W42T by Toshiba)
Released in 2007
- Casio: W51CA, W52CA,"EXILIMCasio ExilimExilim is a brand of digital cameras introduced in 2002 by Casio.The Exilim Card series was notably thinner than other small digital cameras at the time of its introduction, typically 10–15 millimetres thick compared to other manufacturers' comparable models that were 25–35 millimeters thick...
Phone" W53CA - Hitachi: W51H, W52SH, "Wooo Phone" W53H
- Kyocera: W51K
- PanasonicPanasonicPanasonic is an international brand name for Japanese electric products manufacturer Panasonic Corporation, which was formerly known as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd...
: W51P, W52P - Sanyo: W51SA, W52SA, W53SA
- Sharp: "AQUOS Phone" (W51SH),W52SH
- Sony Ericsson: W51S,"Walkman Phone" W52S,W53S
- Toshiba: W51T, W52T, W53T, W54T, W55T
- au design project: "Media Skin" (W52K by Kyocera), and "INFOBAR 2" (W55SA by Sanyo)
Released in 2008
- Casio: W61CA,"G'zOne" (W62CA), "EXILIM PHONE" W63CA
- Hitachi: W61H, "Wooo Phone" (W62H / W63H)
- Kyocera: W61K, W64K, W65K
- Panasonic: W61P, W62P
- Pantech&CuritelPantech CuritelPantech Curitel is a South Korean company specializing in manufacturing mobile phones. It was established in 2000. Its market is mainly domestic, but Pantech Curitel also has interests in Brazil, Japan, Hong Kong, China, India, Europe, Australia, Taiwan, USA, Mexico and Canada. It is currently the...
: W61PT - Sanyo: W61SA, W62SA, W63SA, W64SA
- Sharp: "AQUOS Phone" (W61SH / W64SH), W62SH, "URBANO" (W63SH)
- Sony Ericsson: "Cyber-Shot Phone" W61S, W62S, "re" (W63S), W64S, "Walkman Phone, Xmini" (W65S)
- Toshiba: W61T, W62T, "Sportio" (W63T), W64T, W65T
Released in 2009
- Casio: CA001
- Hitachi: "Wooo Phone" (H001)
- Panasonic: P001
- Sharp: SH001
- Sony Ericsson: "Cyber-shot phone" S001, "Walkman Phone, Premier3(Cube)" (SOY01)
- Toshiba: T001
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 CDCompact DiscThe Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
(compact disc) to a mobile phone.
- Share playlistPlaylistIn its most general form, a playlist is simply a list of songs. They can be played in sequential or shuffled order. The term has several specialized meanings in the realms of radio broadcasting and personal computers.-In radio:...
s with other LISMO users. - Use downloaded music as a ringtoneRing toneA ringtone or ring tone is the sound made by a telephone to indicate an incoming call or text message. Not literally a tone, the term is most often used today to refer to customizable sounds used on mobile phones.-Background:...
- BackupBackupIn information technology, a backup or the process of backing up is making copies of data which may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. The verb form is back up in two words, whereas the noun is backup....
address book data etc. to a personal computer
File format
Under investigationThe music file has .KMF extension on the phone and becomes .KDR on the PC, the codec is HE-AAC
HE-AAC
High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding is a lossy data compression scheme for digital audio defined as a MPEG-4 Audio profile in ISO/IEC 14496-3. It is an extension of Low Complexity AAC optimized for low-bitrate applications such as streaming audio...
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 cameraCameraA camera is a device that records and stores images. These images may be still photographs or moving images such as videos or movies. The term camera comes from the camera obscura , an early mechanism for projecting images...
data, PIMPIM- Computing :* Parallel inference machine, an intended fifth generation computer* Personal information management, the study and practice of information management by individuals* Personal information manager, a portable appliance...
data, etc. Supports only Microsoft WindowsMicrosoft WindowsMicrosoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
- 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
- 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.
Some Issues
Although all phones in Japan have an option to switch to English, phones from AU are not truly bilingual. Phones from AU use same software for all their phones models (like LISMO player, etc.). This software was not translated. Thus, it is not easy for foreigners in Japan to use it as compared to native cellphone music players provided by AU competitors (like NTT Docomo, Softbank, etc.)Commercials
LISMO commercials, which changes approx. every 3 months, use many songs by J-popJ-pop
, an abbreviation for Japanese pop, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in 1960s music, such as The Beatles, and replaced kayōkyoku in the Japanese music scene...
artists. On March 5, 2008, an album titled "Best of LISMO!" was released. The album contains all 10 songs used in LISMO commercials that aired by the Summer 2007.
List of songs used in the commercial (in order of which the commercial aired):
- Hana - Orange RangeOrange Rangeis a 5-member Okinawan alternative rock band, based in Okinawa, Japan. Formed in 2001, the band began with Spice Music and later signed with Sony Music Japan's gr8! records division in 2003. The group left gr8! records in 2010 to start their own label, Super Echo....
- Ishindenshin - Orange Range
- Keep Tryin'Keep Tryin'"Keep Tryin" is a song by Utada Hikaru. It was released as her 16th Japanese single on February 22, 2006. The song was the first promotional song for Lismo! au Listen Mobile Service...
- Hikaru Utada - By My Melody - Ken HiraiKen Hiraiis a Japanese R&B and pop singer. Since his debut, Hirai has worked as a model, actor, composer, lyricist, singer, and spokesperson.During his career, Hirai has released 32 singles and 11 albums up until October 2010. According to Oricon, his single Hitomi Wo Tojite became the best-selling single...
- MikazukiMikazuki (song)-Charts:-Charice version:In 2010, Filipina pop singer Charice recorded an English version of the song entitled "Crescent Moon" as part of the Japanese Edition of her self-titled international debut album. It was released as a promotional single in Japan on June 23, 2010 via iTunes....
- AyakaAyakais a Japanese female singer formerly signed to Warner Music Japan. Born in Osaka, she moved to Tokyo to pursue a singing career. She married actor Hiro Mizushima on February 22, 2009.-2006:... - Lovers Again - Exile
- Cherry - YuiYui (singer), stylized as YUI, is a multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, composer, actress, and radio personality. Born and raised in Fukuoka, she played live at various locations in her home town before being noticed by Sony Music Japan when she was 17 and released her debut single months later...
- Tashika niTashika ni-External links:*...
- Angela AkiAngela Aki, born Kiyomi Angela Aki on September 15, 1977, is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist from Itano, Tokushima, Japan.-Early life:... - Stay with MeStay with Me (Kumi Koda song)Stay with Me is the forty-second single by Koda Kumi. It is described as a "winter love ballad," by her official site. It features an orgel of "Stay with Me," and the B-Side "Winter Bell." The first press editions includes a poster and a draw card, much like "Taboo"...
- Kumi KodaKumi Koda, better known by her stage name , is a Japanese singer and songwriter from Kyoto, known for her urban and R&B songs. Having debuted in 2000 with the single "Take Back", Koda gained fame for her seventh single, "Real Emotion/1000 no Kotoba", the songs of which were used as themes for the video game...
See also
- Sony ConnectSony ConnectThe CONNECT Music Store was Sony's music store built within the SonicStage music management application for Microsoft Windows-based personal computers. It was one of the world’s largest online music download stores with over 2.5 million tracks to preview and purchase, with over 10,000 new songs...
- Mora (music store)Mora (music store)is an online music and video store for the Japanese market. It is integrated into the Japanese version of Sony's SonicStage software. Music is distributed primarily in Sony's ATRAC3 format with OpenMG DRM, though some music is also now offered in Microsoft's Windows Media format and videos are...
- iTunes Music Store
- Japanese mobile phone cultureJapanese mobile phone cultureIn Japan, mobile phones have become ubiquitous. In Japanese, mobile phones are called keitai denwa , literally "portable telephones," and are often known simply as keitai....