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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.

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."

Another release coming from NTT DOCOMO, largest mobile communications company from Asia consists of 19 new cell phone models, with unique stylish designs, included in the company’s latest 906i and 706i series.



The 906i series brings 8 cell phones featuring from 3G/GSM international roaming, GPS, HSDPA, and One-Segment mobile TV, to 2 in 1 (2 phones in one, probably Dual SIM technology), DCMX mobile credit card, iD mobile credit payments, VGA LCD screen and voice-to-text translation for Chinese, English and Japanese.



Via DOCOMO, the future 906i users will have access to the Music & Video Channel with over 100 channels for music download, and to the i-mode video resource with free videos.
Other features of the series, not common to all the models included, are Windows Media Video, Flash 8, deco-mail for embedding flash files into emails, PushTalk, and the possibility to upload videos and pictures of up to 2MB.



The P906i, SO906i, SH906i, N906iμ, F906i, N906i, N906iμ (STNY by Samantha Thavasa), N906iL onefone, and the AQUOS Phone SH906iTV will be launched on June 1, June 2, June 3, June 4, June 5, and July, respectively.



DOCOMO’s new 706i series has 11 cell phones sporting slim and stylish housing, One-Segment mobile TV, HSDPA and 3G/GSM international roaming. This line includes the slimmest One-Seg phone, the Waterproof One-Seg cell phone, the Wellness phone with diet monitor and health monitor, and the easiest to use model with unique user interface.



The following models included in the 706i series will be available starting July, August and September: F706i, N706i, SO706i, P706ie, L706ie, N706ie, NM706i, P706iμ, SH706i, SH706ie and SH706iw.

Being very interested in the LG WINE’s 3G support and multiple phone features, NTT DOCOMO, the mobile communications company that brought the world’s first 3G service based on W-CDMA in 2001, decided to launch the cool cell phone on the Asian market, in collaboration with KT Freetel, mobile communications service provider, under the name FOMA L706ie.

LG WINE has a simple and elegant clamshell-style design and it will be available in Japan in August and in South Korea in September.
It features a 2.2-inch LCD display, large buttons, built-in 1.3MP camera, large character format, alarm, schedule, voice recorder and MP3 player.



It is expected at an affordable cost.

According to the latest NTT DOCOMO press release, the large mobile communications company plans to develop the next LG PRADA cell phone.
The new NTT DOCOMO version of the famous PRADA-branded cell phone will feature full touch-sensitive surface and ill target Japan starting June.

It will come in a stylish leather case with accessories and new graphics, besides the intuitive interface, tactile feedback, a built-in 2MP CMOS camera with Schneider-Kreuznach optics and autofocus, high-speed data transfers of up to 7.2Mbps, the packet-switched i-mode wireless Internet service popular in Japan, and Chaku-Uta full length songs download.

The LG PRADA from NTT DOCOMO will measure 101 x 54 x 12.7 mm at 92 grams, with a battery providing up to 140 minutes of talk time, 90 minutes of video calling, and 350 hours of standby.
It sports a 3-inch large wide QVGA TFT LCD display of 65K colors for easy browsing.
We’ll know more after the release.