Friday, February 18, 2005
PENCK (KDDI-AU Designer Series)
Today, February 18, KDDI-AU came out with PENCK - the latest model in the Designer Series:
Data rate = 2.4 Mbps
Music = Chaku-Uta-Full, stereo speakers
Camera = 1.24 Megapixel, incl QR barcode reader
GPS = incl. Naviwalk navigation
and more...
Data rate = 2.4 Mbps
Music = Chaku-Uta-Full, stereo speakers
Camera = 1.24 Megapixel, incl QR barcode reader
GPS = incl. Naviwalk navigation
and more...
Labels: au, concept phones, KDDI, penk
Monday, November 15, 2004
KDDI announces "talby" phone
On 13 October 2004, KDDI/AU announced "talby", the third phone in their "AU design series". Volume sales start in December 2004. We expect that "talby" will be similarly successful as "infobar" one year ago.
"talby" is a fully featured 3G phone with camera (640x480 pixel), QVGA display, EZappli/BREW, Chaku-uta, email, EZweb, PIM, GPS/EZnaviwalk,...
You'll find "talby" in our Wireless-Japan 2003 Exhibition report, where talby was first shown to the public:
"talby" is a fully featured 3G phone with camera (640x480 pixel), QVGA display, EZappli/BREW, Chaku-uta, email, EZweb, PIM, GPS/EZnaviwalk,...
You'll find "talby" in our Wireless-Japan 2003 Exhibition report, where talby was first shown to the public:
Labels: au, concept phones, KDDI, talby
Sunday, September 05, 2004
Wireless Japan 2004
NEC "tag" multimedia concept phone shown at "Wireless-Japan 2004":
Attended "Wireless Japan 2004". Much was expected: for example, it wasn't surprising for anyone that DoCoMo's i-Mode-FeliCa wallet-phones were center stage of the DoCoMo exhibit with lots of partners demoing wallet-phone applications.
There were some surprises: In recent Wireless-Japan shows usually the KDDI/AU-design project prototypes were at the center of attention - this year I could not find any. For example, at Wireless-Japan-2002, KDDI/AU showed "Infobar" prototypes a full 16 months before market introduction. Did KDDI/AU decide to keep future design-project releases secret until they hit the market? Could well be so, given Japan's increasingly ferocious mobile phone competition. Another surprise was Vodafone's absence - Vodafone in recent years used to have the biggest show.
On the other hand this time most handset makers showed impressive concept phones, Matsushita/Panasonic under the heading "Beyond 3G". The image shows NEC's concept design study of a flexible multimedia phone: this phone has two screens which can be bent together, and used jointly as a larger screen.
Find more images on our website: www.eurotechnology.com/wirelessjapan2004/
and our full report (pdf-file) here: www.eurotechnology.com/store/wj2004/
Attended "Wireless Japan 2004". Much was expected: for example, it wasn't surprising for anyone that DoCoMo's i-Mode-FeliCa wallet-phones were center stage of the DoCoMo exhibit with lots of partners demoing wallet-phone applications.
There were some surprises: In recent Wireless-Japan shows usually the KDDI/AU-design project prototypes were at the center of attention - this year I could not find any. For example, at Wireless-Japan-2002, KDDI/AU showed "Infobar" prototypes a full 16 months before market introduction. Did KDDI/AU decide to keep future design-project releases secret until they hit the market? Could well be so, given Japan's increasingly ferocious mobile phone competition. Another surprise was Vodafone's absence - Vodafone in recent years used to have the biggest show.
On the other hand this time most handset makers showed impressive concept phones, Matsushita/Panasonic under the heading "Beyond 3G". The image shows NEC's concept design study of a flexible multimedia phone: this phone has two screens which can be bent together, and used jointly as a larger screen.
Find more images on our website: www.eurotechnology.com/wirelessjapan2004/
and our full report (pdf-file) here: www.eurotechnology.com/store/wj2004/
Labels: concept phones, wireless japan
