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As part of its new collection of devices, NTT DoCoMo added three Panasonic devices, two smartphones and one tablet. We already know pretty much everything about the Eluga Power, but we haven’t heard of Eluga V and Eluga Live tablet before. The first of the two is an Android Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone with a…
After South Korea, Canada and United States – LG is bringing its super-awesome Optimus LTE smartphone to the Land of the rising Sun. Interested folks will be able to grab this powerful device from NTT Docomo, which is the nation’s leading mobile operator. Of course, it’s not a “regular” Optimus LTE but the one fine-tuned…
Last week we reported on the RJ63YC100, Sharp’s new 12 megapixel camera module for smartphones and tablets that features optical image stabilization and is less than 5.5 mm thick. It hasn’t been put inside any American or European smartphones yet, though it has shown up in the Sharp AQUOS SH-01D that’ll sadly never leave the…
Lady phones are not that popular in most parts of the world. Japan is sort of an exception as major carriers are always trying to have a special offering for the tech-savvy ladies. NTT DoCoMo launched such a device, Fujitsu Arrows Kiss F-03D, that not only looks girly, but also comes with some apps that…
The Motorola Droid RAZR is impossibly thin, measuring just 7.1 mm at its thinnest point, but it’s now officially considered obese thanks to the 6.7 mm thin Fujitsu Arrows F-07D. The Arrows will probably never leave Japan, which is a shame, but at least it demonstrates that building thin smartphones isn’t exactly impossible. Spec wise,…
NTT DoCoMo is teaming-up with McAfee to provide McAfee VirusScan Mobile for its Android smartphone users. The mentioned solution alerts users about viruses and malicious applications by scanning and cleaning files, emails, installer packages, Internet downloads, messages and attachments; while at the same time requiring minimal mobile computing and memory resources. The automatic update feature…
Panasonic will be making the leap to smartphones this summer with their first Android device, the P-07C. The device is headed to NTT DoCoMo in Japan, packs a respectable 4.3-inch touchscreen, and runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Panasonic has been talking about making this transition for over a year now, so it’s not entirely unexpected, but…
The Japanese mobile industry is one that’s filled with ridiculous devices made by handset vendors that almost never sell their creations overseas. It’s why many call Japan the Galápagos Islands of mobile. With the introduction of smartphones running iOS and Android however, things have started to change. For all the mind bending spec sheets that…
You know how micro-blogging aka tweeting is getting popular these days with carriers all around the world rolling out services that make it easy for mobile users to share tidbits of information with their friends while on the go. Japanese NTT DOCOMO isn’t an exception, quite the contrary. However, they think there’s more they could…
NTT DoCoMo has recently announced what some may call a Frankensteinian perversion among smartphones; the Fujitsu LOOX F-07C is a landscape slider with 4-inch 1024 x 600 display (!), HDMI-out, 5 megapixel camera, 1 GB of RAM, 1.2 GHz processor, and 32 GB of storage. The real kicker? It dual-boots into Symbian or the desktop…