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FOMA SH706i was announced in May and now it is finally released for the Japan market, being shipped together with other new handsets from NTT DoCoMo, Mitsubishi Electric, Motorola, Sharp, Sony Ericsson and Nokia.

The new model runs on the Symbian operating system, which is designed to deliver GPS features, broadband speeds for crystal-clear VoIP calls and real-time media streaming, a cool graphics architecture with screen effects and lower battery consumption needs, support for symmetric multiprocessing, and Demand Paging, which handles the RAM memory usage by loading read-only code and data on demand only, increasing the efficiency.



FOMA SH706i developed by Sharp supports 1seg technology for live TV, and offers high-quality images and sound while on the go. It comes with the Mobile Oriented Applications Platform.

The phone has a 3-inch large LCD ASV display of 16 million colors and 16:9 contrast ratio, the Dolby sound technology for strong audio with bass enhancements, multimedia player, sensitive buttons, automatic download setting, Internet browser, email, chat, video calls, and the i-mode service. I-mode is a popular service in Japan, with 48 million subscribers and 95,000 Internet content providers, which provides access to email, sports, weather, games, financial and ticket booking services wirelessly. It works with the a packet switching communication technology, which provides lower costs and charges depending on the number of data packets sent and received.



Other functionalities include a built-in 2MP digital camera, microSD memory expansion slot for up yo 2GB of storage, 3G, GSM, 190 minutes talk time, 100 minutes of video calling, and 480 minutes of standby. The user can add even more storage capacity via a microSDHC card for higher capacity of up to 8GB and higher transfer speed.

The handset measures 109 x 50 x 15.9 mm at120 grams and comes in Aqua Green, Black and Pink colors.

<-234x60 Half Banner - left->Audience announced that its A1010 voice processor working based on the intelligence of the human hearing system is featured by the latest cell phone from NTT DOCOMO.



The chip is supporting the Triple Kukkiri Talk from Sharp which allows people hear clear conversations even in crowded places, delivering noise suppression, voice equalizer, and voice stretch performance.



The Sharp SH705iII cell phone was released last month and this advanced audio feature powered by the Audience Voice Processor is in charge with handling signals the way people perceive sounds and it identifies and suppresses noise sources.

10 of the new 19 cell phone models announced a few days ago by NTT DOCOMO will feature the PacketVideo CORE multimedia player for music and videos.
F906i, P906i, SH906i, SO906i, SH906iTV, F706i, P706iu, SH706i, SH706iW, and P706ie, included in the 90i and 70i series will come in Japanese stores with the universal player that supports Microsoft Windows Media technology.

With its support for a large variety of file formats, CORE will allow users play 3GPP (MP4), "i-motion" (MMP4) and Windows Media files. In addition, the 10 cell phones feature the Microsoft Media Transfer Protocol for transfers between the phone and the computer.
P906i, SH906i, SO906i, SH906iTV, P706iu, SH706i, and SH706iW come with support for Windows Media Video for streaming and full-browsing of video content in 30 fps.

"It is our honor to provide our CORE software to 10 new 906i and 706i series phones, bringing our cumulative number of PV-powered phones 70 models for NTT DOCOMO," declared Kazunori Takagi, president of PV Japan. "We appreciate the opportunity to support NTT DOCOMO to expand the number of users who can enjoy the benefits of a PV-powered FOMA experience."

Symbian Limited, the creator of the leading mobile operating system for Smartphone announced the releasing of FOMA NM705i at NTT DoCoMo in Japan.
The mobile candybar-like handset made by Nokia comes in a light form factor with an orange housing and support for international roaming.



Running on S60 software on Symbian operating system, FOMA NM705i is the lightest model from this series at 89 gra6ms measuring 105 x 46 x 15 mm.
It is not a high-end mobile phone but it comes with a very useful Japanese-English/English-Japanese dictionary, FM radio, and a built-in 2MP camera with 4x digital zoom.



Other colors available are black and white.