Japanese KDDI today announced new additions to its handset range. The Toshiba W64T is a 1-Seg clamshell phone with dedicated touch-sensitive TV key. With an elegant design it has a 3.2 megapixel camera with auto focus and shake hands reduction, and microSD memory card slot support. The W64T measures 50 x 104 x 17.3 mm and weighs about 124 g.
The second model, W63K by Kyocera is a candybar phone which at first glance surprised me – missing camera and Bluetooth. But user can enjoy other features like: 2.7″ IPS LCD Wide QVGA screen with 240 × 400 pixels, CDMA 1x EV-DO, and e-mail. In 89 g it provides 250 minutes of talk time and 340 hours of standby time.
The carrier will launch these handsets in September 25 and 26 for price which will depend on the retail store.
It seems Verizon Wireless will get soon a new music flip phone to its range. The coming VU30 will feature a 2 megapixel camera function with videorecording, stereo Bluetooth, and EVDO support for high speeds. The handset can also work with many messaging services.
Motorola VU30
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Samsung today introduced new Bluetooth products including HKT600 Bluetooth Car Speakerphone and SBH650 Stereo Bluetooth Headphones. The compact sized and thin HKT600 Bluetooth Car Speakerphone has a special clips on the back side to protect passengers in an accident. The device has an impressive standby time – one month.
Samsung also introduced new Stereo Bluetooth Headphones, the SBH650. The headphones base is designed in a player form which makes it very stylish. In black/silver color, the device is able to provide you calling with your phone as well as listen to your favorite music. Samsung has not announced the pricing and availability yet.
Samsung HKT600
The battle is on and manufacturers have been pushing hard to take over the phone world. After Nokia, Sony Ericsson has unveiled its long awaited music store into the content market, this time it is available for use on phones as well as PC. PlayNow plus has an unlimited portfolio of all-you-can-eat access to millions of music tracks.
More countries have been added now (before it was Sweden only), so now people living in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden are the first in line to get Sony Ericsson media delivery service. Also special edition of the Sony Ericsson W902 Walkman phone will carry integrated PlayNow plus service feature. However Sony Ericsson plans to include 1000 of recent popular tracks both locally and globally with each PlayNow plus phone.
The site initially had a collection of 1 million DRM-free tracks from the record companies of Sony BMG, Warner Music and EMI. Now the service draws from Sony Ericsson’s collaboration with Omnifone and licensing terms have been agreed with all major international music labels – including EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music – as well as thousands of local music labels.
Sony Ericsson expects the site will expand to other European countries later this year and to be global in mid 2009. The rates would almost be the same as iTunes and in Sweden all tracks sold at a tag price of cost SEK 9.
Sony Ericsson W902
