In this latest innovation from NTT Docomo (Japanese Mobile Company), women can now key in their menstruation period and allow a software to calculate their ovulation and warns them about their up coming most fertile period. Apparently this was to help falling Japanese birth rate.

The news article can be found in Reuters:

TOKYO (Reuters) - Is it a phone call, a text message or simply time to make love?

A new mobile phone available through Japan’s NTT DoCoMo can ring to let would-be mothers know when they reach the most fertile part of their monthly reproductive cycles.

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.

The phone was the idea of female designer Momoko Ikuta, who also provided its pastel paisley look.

The handset provides several other functions designed to appeal to women, such as a recipe database and a button on the side that sets off a “camouflage melody,” allowing the user to avoid unwanted attention by pretending to receive a call.

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