Don’t ever try to show off your mobile phone in front of Japanese! You will be embarrassed, as Japanese are going to pick any of these new 18 high-tech phones unearthed by NTT Docomo, that make you phone look like a toy. Let’s look at the new 18 phones one-by-one, and decide whether we are living in a developed country or a developing country.

F-08A

Beautiful, softly contoured body with waterproofing for safe operation up to 1.5 meters underwater.

L-04A

Refined, esthetically clean slider phone with pressure-sensitive touchscreen that responds to fingernails.

N-08A

Elegantly slim body with colorfully illuminated keypad and powerful 8.1-megapixel camera.

P-08A

Swing/slider phone with stylishly ergonomic body and 8.1- megapixel camera for beautiful photos.

P-10A

Wide landscape screen and waterproof body for enjoyment of mobile TV in kitchen or bath.

SH-05A

Chic three-tone body with waterproof versatility and high-grade CCD 8-megapixel camera.

docomo PRIME series

F-09A

High-spec slider phone with large 3.4-inch two-way (portrait/ landscape) touchscreen.

L-06A

Touchscreen phone with dedicated Google™ key to quickly access/share videos and pictures.

N-06A

Wi-Fi-equipped phone with two-way (portrait/landscape) touchscreen and 8.1-megapixel camera.

N-07A

Rugged phone featuring sporty design, applications and content geared to athletic users.

P-07A

VIERA phone with large 2-inch sub-display and multi-mode 8.1-megapixel camera.

SH-06A

High-quality camera phone with CCD 10-megapixel resolution and advanced photo-processing engine.

docomo SMART series

N-09A

Slim, stylishly urbane phone with 8.1-megapixel camera and enhanced functions for work and after-hours.

P-09A

Versatile, 12.5-mm phone with proprietary technology for extra-clear, natural voice output.

Evangelion Phone

SH-06A NERV

Special “NERV” phone that appears in upcoming anime film Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance.

It is true that men won’t buy this phone. This handbag-shaped cell phone in the picture is released in Japan by KDDI. Designed by internationally renowned Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, the phone features patterns of her brightly colored polka dot motif. We are not sure women would die for this phone or not. If you do, please leave a comment down here.

This news is kind of old. However, in case you miss the release of this amazing phone, you should keep reading this post. Sharp released the world’s largest touchscreen phone, Sharp 931SH, on 1/31/2009. The 931SH has a 3.8-inch Half-XGA LCD screen, bigger than iPhone’s 3.5-inch. Plus, the 931SH has a 5.2-megapixel digital camera, Digital TV (One Seg) support, 3G, GPS, and video call. No wonder iPhone 3G sales lag in Japan, when there is a better equipped touchscreen phone out there in Japan.

June, 4 – Softbank showed off the latest waterproof Sharp 824SH and Panasonic Tropical 823p phones at an official launch party in Japan yesterday. Softbank demonstrates the operation of Panasonic Tropical 823p phone in water, as captured in the photo above.

Sharp Waterproof 824SH is only 15.3mm thick, which makes it the world’s slimmest waterproof 1seg cellular phone. Surprisingly, Softbank spokesman said that the waterproof phones are designed to target women.

“Many of our customers started subscribing to our service because they were attracted by the advanced capabilities of our handsets and our reasonable fee system,” President Masayoshi Son said. “Therefore, the ratio of female users has been slightly lower compared with our rivals.”

As a result, SoftBank Mobile launched a project to develop handsets targeting women about a year ago. When the company conducted a survey on functions that women are seeking, the request for “waterproof function” was higher than any other functions including 1seg and GPS, it said. That is because many women said they “wanted to write email while bathing.

via TechOn

Why we can’t have Japanese phones that are much cooler than the phones (except iPhone) that we have in United States? It is not fair !

March 21, 2008- SoftBank Mobile and Citizen have teamed up to offer users a new option in time management as well as cell phone usage. The new iVIRT-M watch will be a bonus feature released to accompany the new Sharp brand 920SH handset. This new technology will put several attractive features right at the users’ fingertips… literally. Apparently, this new option in watches features Bluetooth connectivity allowing users to connect wirelessly to incoming calls, mail and news postings. Users can also take advantage of the new technology they are being offered by using the iVIRT-M watch as a camera remote to get in on some of those priceless shots.

The iVIRT-M Citizen watch also features a 64 color LCD screen so that users will even be able to display pictures on their watch. Also, the iVIRT-M watch features a Stock Trading Key that enables users to access stock trading applications via their wrist watch with one quick and convenient button click. E*Trade will be providing the service to users who will access their online trading site when their activate the Stock Trading Key. The users stock trading options will be set up very similar to that which you might see on a PC.

Users can also choose to receive updates and breaking news releases in real time via their Citizen wrist watch. Live updates allow use of 920SH YK, as well as after market and night trading for interested stock trading users. All of these exciting new features will keep users up to date so that they can stay ahead of the game in their trading.

Source: Wirelesswatch.jp

March 19, 2008 – Three new designs have been announced from cell phone makers DoCoMo: Raku Raku Phone Premium (F884i), the Raku Raku Phone Basic S (F883iS), and the Raku Raku Phone IVS. These three new designs come packed with features that make them a great choice for anyone in the market for a new handset.

Raku Raku Phone Premium (F884i)

The first of these DoCoMo phones is the F884i, or Raku Raku Phone Premium. The Raku Raku Premium Phone comes with about 150 minutes of continuous talk time as well as 465 (3G), 270 (GSM) hours of standby time and 110 minutes of video calling time. Measuring 109 x 50 x 20 mm, and weighing 140 grams, this phones is a great size for carrying with you everywhere. The main screen is a 3.1 inch WVGA 262K color TFT screen while the external is 0.9 inches 96 x 60 monochrome STN display. The DoCoMo F884i also features a 3.2 mega pixel camera phone, a secondary 0.32 mega pixel camera, and a microSD memory card slot for transferring data, images, and video.

Raku Raku Phone Premium (F884i)

The second of DoCoMo phone is the F883iS, or Raku Raku Phone Basic S. The Raku Raku Phone Basic S measures 102 x 51 x 19.9 mm, and weighing 103 grams, this phones is also a great size for carrying with you. The main screen is a 2.4 inch QVGA 262K color screen while the external is 1.2 inches 64 x 64 monochrome STN display.

F883iS

The third DoCoMo phone is the Raku Raku Phone IVS. Measuring 104 x 50 x 17.6 mm, and weighing 113 grams, this phones is also great size for carrying with you anywhere. The main screen is a 2.6 inch QVGA 262K color screen while the external is 1.2 inches 64 x 64 monochrome STN display. The IVS also features a 1.3 mega pixel camera, a secondary CMOS VGA camera, and a microSD memory card slot for transferring data, images, and video.

Raku Raku Phone IVS

Jeanna Lee

Source: justamp.blogspot.com