LISMO

LISMO was an online music service provided by au, a Japanese mobile phone brand run by KDDI, a Japanese telecommunication company. 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. In 2008, KDDI and Okinawa Cellular introduced 'LISMO Video', a new service with new means to enjoy video content as well.
As of In April 2013, KDDI acquired Taiwanese streaming service KKBOX. The LISMO and KKBOX services were merged under the KKBOX name. KKBOX is now expanding into other Asian markets.
The discontinuation of LISMO WAVE on September 30, 2019 marked the end of the LISMO brand.

Mascot

The mascot of this service was. The "LIS" in "LISMO" is pronounced the same as squirrel in Japanese. 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.

Supported phones

LISMO is supported by CDMA 1X WIN phones.
;Released in 2006

Casio: W41CA,"G'zOne", W43CA
Hitachi: W41H, W42H, W43H, W43HII
Kyocera: W41K, W42K, W43K, W44K
Sanyo: W41SA, W42SA, W43SA
Sharp: W41SH
Sony Ericsson: W41S,"Walkman Phone", W43S, W44S
Toshiba: "Music-HDD", W43T, W44T, W44TII, W44TIII, W45T, "DRAPE", W47T
au design project: "neon"

;Released in 2007

Casio: W51CA, W52CA,"EXILIM Phone" W53CA
Hitachi: W51H, W52SH, "Wooo Phone" W53H
Kyocera: W51K
Panasonic: W51P, W52P
Sanyo: W51SA, W52SA, W53SA
Sharp: "AQUOS Phone", W52SH
Sony Ericsson: W51S,"Walkman Phone" W52S, W53S
Toshiba: W51T, W52T, W53T, W54T, W55T
au design project: "Media Skin", and "INFOBAR 2"

;Released in 2008

Casio: W61CA,"G'zOne", "EXILIM PHONE" W63CA
Hitachi: W61H, "Wooo Phone"
Kyocera: W61K, W64K, W65K
Panasonic: W61P, W62P
Pantech&Curitel: W61PT
Sanyo: W61SA, W62SA, W63SA, W64SA
Sharp: "AQUOS Phone", W62SH, "URBANO"
Sony Ericsson: "Cyber-Shot Phone" W61S, W62S, "re", W64S, "Walkman Phone, Xmini"
Toshiba: W61T, W62T, "Sportio", W64T, W65T

;Released in 2009

Casio: CA001
Hitachi: "Wooo Phone"
Panasonic: P001
Sharp: SH001
Sony Ericsson: "Cyber-shot phone" S001, "Walkman Phone, Premier3"
Toshiba: T001

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 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 and there are 20,000 songs available at the beginning of service.
Uta Tomo
: Play list sharing service. Works over au's server.

Commercials

LISMO commercials, which changes approx. every 3 months, use many songs by J-pop 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 :