Monday, February 09, 2009

AU KDDI Announces Spring 2009 Cellphone Models


Japan's AU KDDI Keitai cell phone service has announced 10 new phones being added to their spring collection. Via Wireless Watch Japan ... http://wirelesswatch.jp/2009/01/30/spring-comes-early-at-kddi/

The KDDI product lineup page (http://www.au.kddi.com/english/product) lists phones from Casio, Hitachi, Kyocera, Pantech, Sharp, Sony Erickson, Toshiba, ... what did I miss. The phones range in features from rich ones like Sharp's iPhone-like Aquos with a3 3.5" screen, a 5.2 Mpixel camera and the Toshiba Sportio Personal Smart Trainer down to the beautifully simple Kyocera A101K - it's just a phone - no flip, no text, no camera, quick call buttons that can be labeled, and a strap with the phone's phone number on it!  

The health feature (calorie counting) feature is often enhanced with KDDI's LISMO music (dance and burn calories) and television (veg out and save calories) support.