KDDI follows NTT DoCoMo's lead, unleashes ten phones

by Chris Ziegler, posted Jan 16th 2007 at 11:45PM

Yeah, that's right, NTT DoCoMo -- you're not the only carrier in town that can flex its product lineup muscle every now and again. KDDI au becomes the second Japanese carrier this week to add ten phones, a quantity most American carriers barely reach in a year's time. But we digress; leading up the pack is the "Media Skin," a clean-looking candybar with a covered keypad that began life as a KDDI design project. Meanwhile, the Aquos-branded W51SH from (you guessed it) Sharp should square up nicely with similar Sony Bravia-branded offerings for NTT, and, well... the list pretty much goes on ad nauseam. Those with a particularly strong stomach for viewing tech they can't have where they live can surf on over to KDDI's "Collection 2007 Spring" site for the full list -- meanwhile, we'll be crying ourselves to sleep.

[Via Akihabara News]

Filed under: Handsets, KDDI, 1xRTT, EV-DO, CDMA

Tags: aquos, au, japan, kddi, kddi au, KddiAu, media skin, MediaSkin, sharp

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Watanabe @ Jan 17th 2007 3:44AM

>THE RAZR'S 3 YEARS OLD!

Well, NTT DoCoMo has released RAZR (M701iS) last December in Japan. And, that was a huge hit. The device is still very popular among ordinary Japanese cell phone users (means not geek). So, many Japanese loves RAZR too.

I would think that Japanese consumers have been tired of plasticky phone with tons of not-necessary-in-daily-life cutting edge features.

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katana @ Jan 17th 2007 10:57AM

I WANT TO MOVE TO JAPAN..... NOWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!

Their phones were SWEET when I browsed through the Tokyo shops/Akihabara. OMG.

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JX @ Jan 17th 2007 10:59PM

>>2

The M701iS isn't the Razr that America got. We got one far worse than that. The M701iS is definitely more powerful than the Razr V3 sold in the rest of the world.

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Johnny (who else?) @ Jan 18th 2007 12:00PM

dude, that's eff'd up. i'm pissed. i mean, they get all this cool lookin shiz and we're all stuck with ooo the red best buy exclusive samsung c417!! bogus... america, 1st class douschebags stuck with 3rd world tech.

THE RAZR'S 3 YEARS OLD!

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Joe @ Jan 21st 2007 9:58AM

The Samsung C417 offered by Cingular is actually a pretty nice phone. It has a metal body, is very thin, and quadband. It also has a 2 inch screen, BT, speakerphone and VGA camera. Of course it isn't on the same level as these JDM phones but it only costs half as much. I don't think Cingular can afford to give away $500 phones to new subscribers so there are a lot of cheaper phones in their lineup like the C417.

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