I had read about a Japanese company that had designed a cell phone to help women with their fertility cycles. It was only in a small news byte, but I wanted to learn more. Even after checking the company's website, I didn't have enough info to post it here. After checking different gadget related and tech blogs, here are some facts that I patched together.

However, a new Japanese service is taking text messaging where perhaps no one has taken the technology before: family planning. Offered by the telecommunications firm NTT DoCoMo, the service allows women planning to conceive a child to receive text notices during the most fertile days of their reproductive cycle. The "fertility texts" come in response to declining birth rates in Japan, where an aging population has public health officials concerned lifescript

A woman programs her menstruation data into the phone. The phone then alerts her a few days in advance as to when she is ovulating, as well as on her most fertile day. Designed by a woman named Momoko Ikuta, the pastel paisley phone also features a cooking recipe database and a button for faking an incoming call.

No word on why there is no male version for the responsible spouse looking to keep track.
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The presure to one-up the competition is picking up. NTT DoCoMo, hot on the heals of its CEO accusing a major rival of unfair advertising, is trying to make waves of its own this time with its products.
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By tapping in data on menstruation dates, the user can program the phone to alert her three days before ovulation and again on the day. The company warns that the calculations are based on average cycles.The new phone comes after Japan's fertility rate - the average number of children a woman bears in her lifetime - fell to an all-time low of 1.25 in 2005, sparking worries about a shrinking population".

Ring! Ring! It's time to make love
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