Following KDDI’s announcement three weeks ago, Japan’s biggest cell phone carrier NTT Docomo today unveiled [JP] its winter-line up of cell phones (SoftBank, the No.3, did the same). And here are all the new models announced by Docomo for the Japanese market today.
Update:
Head over to NTT Docomo’s English web site for another overview of their new phones.
Fujitsu F-04B Separate Keitai
(world’s first “separate handset” (you can detach the keyboard from the display and let them communicate via Bluetoot), 3.8-inch touchscreen, 12.2MP camera/pictured at the top of this post, too)
Fujitsu F-01B
(3-inch LCD screen with 480×854 resolution, Blu-ray connectivity, 12.3MP CMOS camera, microSD support, waterproof)
NEC N02B
(12.2MP CMOS camera, Blu-ray recorder connectivity, Dragon Quest III pre-installed)
Panasonic P-01B
(3-inch VGA main VIERA screen, 2-inch sub-display, 8MP CMOS camera, GSM, Blu-ray recorder connectivity)
Sharp SH-01B
(3.4-inch WVGA display, 12.1MP CCD camera, GSM, Blu-ray recorder connectivity)
Samsung SC-01B
(smartphone running on Windows Mobile 6.5 Pro, 3.1MP CMOS camera, QWERTY keyboard)
Sharp SH-03B
(3.7-inch WVGA touch screen, QWERTY keyboard, 5.2MP CMOS camera)
Fujitsu F-02B
(waterproof phone with a mini snap-on perfume holder, 3-inch TFT display, 8MP camera)
LG L-01B
(3-inch WVGA touchscreen, 5.1MP CMOS camera, menus in English/Korean/Japanese, GSM)
LG L-02B
(3-inch WVGA screen, 3.1MP CMOS camera, designed specifically for women)
LG L-03B
(extra-simple and compact phone with 2.8-inch QVGA screen, 3.1MP CMOS camera)
NEC N-01B
(phone developed in collaboration with designer Samantha Thavasa, 3.2-inch WVGA screen, 8.1MP camera, GSM)
NEC N-03B
(waterproof phone, 3.2-inch WVGA display, 8.1MP CMOS camera)
Panasonic P-02B
(3.1-inch WVGA touch screen, 8.1MP CMOS camera, GSM)
Sharp SH-02B
(designer handset with 3.4 inch WVGA display, 8MP CCD camera, GSM)
Sharp SH-04B Q-pot
(phone designed like a chocolate bar, limited to 13,000 units, 3-inch display, 8MP CCD camera)
Sharp SH-05B
(phone designed for teenagers, 3-inch WVGA screen, 5.2MP CMOS camera, available in pink only)
Fujitsu F-03B
(waterproof phone with slim body, 3-inch WVGA display, 12.2MP CMOS camera, Blu-ray recorder connectivity, GSM)
Panasonic P-03B
(extra powerful battery that’s good for 720 hours of standby, 3-inch QVGA OLED display, 8.1 CMOS camera, GSM)
Does anyone else find a QWERTY phone for a Japanese carrier a little odd? I’m completely ignorant of written vs. spoken Japanese and its subleties, but would they be texting in japanese with arabic characters or in English with that phone, and wouldn’t it be a little limiting?
It’s funny how the market for cell phones in the US and Europe now seem to lead even Japan. Seriously, these look like 5 year old feature-phone junk that happen to have high MP cameras with (no doubt) the same tiny/awful photo sensor. And WinMo 6.5? Ha!
Japanese phones have capabilities we can only dream of.
1. I believe they’re already on 4G on some networks, from what I’ve read before.
2. They often have TV tuners and people can watch TV all day on their phone if they choose to.
3. You can use them as a subway pass from what I’ve read.
There’s probably more I didn’t even think of at almost 1am here, but their phones are in no way behind.
i live in japan now, and will continue to do so simply because of their phones and cars :)
Any idea whats up with the blue ray connectivity? To do what exactly?
@Ryan Trevisol: The use an input method where they enter characters/words phonetically using the qwerty keyboard and the system transcribe it to the correct kanji.
clamshells and more clamshells? O.o
no thanks
japanese phone are nowhere near to iphone and it applications….here its more like three commnunication mafia companies dicatating what u can and cannot have…
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Wonderful! Japan has so many choices for consumers compared to the US market! I’d love to live there!
steve you have no idea about these phones do you? these clamshell designs are damn popular over in japan. I was there last year – so the design hasn’t really different much.
Japanese network is so much further ahead than europeand and the us networks and their mobile tv is so much better there too. seen a bravia phone? no didn’t think so.
we may not like them but its the style that is being dictated over there. If anything european phones are a lot more better than the crap and old crap the us is still on. Look at the iphone and how limited that use to be.