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While surfing on the Internet this morning in looking for some tech news, I’ve found this phone model with a new feature and thought you might be interested to hear about it too.



You’ve probably heard about the Japan mobile phone provider KDDI.
Well it has just unveiled the A1407PT handset, created by Pantech, the one who introduced CDMA2000 1xEV-DO.
The handset seems a common phone, with 3G support, a 2.4 inch QVGA LCD and a 1.3MP camera.
But besides that the model is featuring bone-conduction based voice calling, which means it conducts the sound to the inner ear through the skull bones.

Let me explain a bit this concept.
Bones are better electricity conductors than the surrounding tissue.
With sound, things are the same.
You know very well that your own voice sounds very different when played back after being recorded.
This is because the lower frequencies tend to be amplified, and most of you perceive your own voice as being of a lower pitch than it actually is.
The KDDI A1407PT is among the few phones built with this characteristic.
It happens when you press the speaker to the head, and so you’ll hear the sound waves coming out, through your skull.

This is not an expensive phone, and costs just $165.