NEC and Panasonic have introduced nine new LiMo handsets through Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo, 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 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’s mobile platform.
[via LiMo Foundation]