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NTT DoCoMo reveals fall 2008 lineup: Bold, E71, 20 others

by Darren Murph posted Nov 5th 2008 @ 8:02AM

Hot on the heels of RIM's BlackBerry Bold finally hitting AT&T sales channels comes word that Japan's NTT DoCoMo has also joined in to offer the handset. As the Asian carriers dump their cornucopia of fall 2008 mobiles onto the world, this particular one is serving up 22, all divided into the STYLE, PRIME, SMART and PRO series. Naturally, the latter category piques our interest the most, as it hosts the Bold, Nokia E71, HTC Touch Pro (HT-01A), HTC Touch Diamond (HT-02A) and Sharp's decidedly handsome SH-04A. Feel free to have a look at the entire family (and their respective launch dates) just below in the read link.

Smart V888 doubles the fun with two huge speakers

by Chris Ziegler posted Nov 3rd 2006 @ 9:13PM

Stereo speakers aren't terribly uncommon among modern featurephones, but this isn't exactly, uh, what most manufacturers have in mind. The V888 slider from Smart rocks (and we literally mean, "rocks") two bigass speakers on either side of the display with support for some sort of spatial audio enhancement. The buttonless front looks clean, sacrificing some usability in the process by moving those pesky send / end buttons off to the side of the bezel. Besides the speakers, the phone offers a microSD slot upon which to load the music you'll surely be enjoying and a 1.3 megapixel shooter, but not much else -- such is the price we must pay for crappy, unnecessarily loud audio emanating from our handset these days.

[Via Slashphone]

Smart S100: the slimphone with a silly keypad

by Chris Ziegler posted Oct 16th 2006 @ 12:59PM

There are slimmer phones on the market, sure, but the 7.7 millimeter, Asia-only Smart S100 has that poorly-faked-iPod look that Samsung simply doesn't have anywhere in their product lineup. With the exception of the unfortunate dual-band 900 / 1800 GSM radio with nothing more than GPRS to feed it data, the phone's specs aren't half bad, with a 160 x 128 OLED display, 2-megapixel cam, and that Nokia 3650-style circular keypad we all love (or love to hate). Without even a single US-friendly GSM band, we think we've probably spent too much time on this thing already, but it's fascinating to know that a no-name phone can beat virtually every major manufacturer in the slimphone game.

[Via Slashphone]