Nine New LiMo Handsets Coming to NTT DoCoMo

NEC and Panasonic (NYSE: PC) have introduced nine new LiMo handsets through Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM), spread across three families. In the PRIME series, we have the N-06A, P-07A and N-07A; in the STYLE series there’s the N-08A, P-06A, P-08A, and P-10A; and finally the SMART series is including the N-09A and the P-09A. No fresh additions to the PRO series, which usually hosts some of the more exotic (by their standards) handsets, like the BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Bold, HTC Magic and Touch Pro.  As usual, tha majority of these new handsets come off as blockish, cheap-looking flips, but don’t be fooled – many are rocking TV tuners, 7.2 Mbps, GPS, WVGA displays – hell, three of them have 8.1 megapixel cameras.  With this release, the number of LiMo-compliant handsets goes up to 42 – a solid lead on its brother-in-Linuxosity, Android, although when it comes to hardware, the next year is looking busy for Google (NSDQ: GOOG)’s mobile platform.

[via LiMo Foundation]