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Details o­n five different phones:
-D900i
-F900i
-N900i
-SH900i
-P900i

They are all interesting in their own respects.

-D900i: "Strongest Movie Phone"

The D900i is a cellular phone of Mitsubishi make with a 1.92 megapixel camera, or an effective 1 megapixel from the Super CCD Honeycomb lens. It has aluminium parts in various places o­n its body, and uses Memory Stick PRO Duo.



The D900i unit's specialty is the ability to playback pre-recorded TV shows. At the time of announcement during last December, it was presented that the shows would be converted inside of the unit, but this time they are presenting that movies must be converted o­n the PC end via the included "Motion Smoothy" software. This software converts movies for playback o­n the D900i. Input formats are AVI, MOV, WMV, and MPEG and it will output 320x240 24fps MP4 movies for the D900i. Using a sold-seperately USB calbe, the movies can be written to the Memory Stick Duo through USB storage. Also, when using the sold-seperately AV output cable, movies and still images can be played back o­n a TV. "Motion Smoothy" supports Windows 2000 and XP.

Using the MPEG-4 movie format, up to 24fps can be played. When using the included 16MB Memory Stick Duo, 54 minutes (176 x 144, 32kbps, 10fps), or 5 minutes (176 x 144, 384kbps, 15fps) can be played. The phone also supports the 512MB Memory Stick Duo - meaning that if standard mode is used, it can store up to 24 hours, or 2 hours 30 minutes in large screen mode. There is also the "Hella Smooth Mode" (176 x 144, 256kbps, max 24fps) which comes close to actual TV quality.

The D900i uses the same lens as that o­n the D505iS phone, which has a maximum resolution of 1200 x 1600. Since the camera is o­n a hinge, and there is an LCD screen o­n the back of the phone, all sorts of different picture taking styles can be used.

The main display is a 2.2 inch QVGA 262,144 color supporting "Crystal Fine (MD-TFD Color) display, and the subdisplay a 1.1 inch, 120 x 160, 65,536 "Crystal Fine (MD-TFD Color) screen. It has a standby time of 450 hours, idle time of 350 hours, and talk time of 140 minutes, and TV phone time of 70 minutes. It is 49 x 106 x 27 mm (W x H x T) and weighs 124g. There are two colors: pink and silver.

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-Fingerprint verification precision enhanced "F900i", convenient features aplenty

The F900i is a phone of Fujitsu phone, which has drastically improved upon the fingerprint recognition that was introduced last year through the F505i. Using the slide-reader at the bottom of the phone, users simply sweep their index finger and enter "privacy mode" which allows users to hide data. o­n the "F505i," users had to input their fingerprints 10 times - and there were often failures to detect it correctly when o­ne needed to access their data.

But this time around o­n the F900i, users need o­nly input their fingerprint data 3 times, and the success rate of fingerprint recognition has been dramatically increased. This smooth fingerprint recognition and less stress by being able to hide information plays a part in the purchasing of the unit. While there can be up to 10 fingerprint datas inside the device, o­nly o­ne person may take items out of "privacy mode."



The camera on the back side is a 1.28 megapixel CCD camera, and the effective resolution of the camera o­n the display side is 110,000 pixels. In addition to being able to take still images at resolutions up to 1280 x 960, it can take MP4 (MobileMP4) QCIF (176 x 144) movies.

It has a megapixel and can zoom, take consecutive photos, use monotone, and night view. While the camera o­n the F900i is of a higher standard than most o­n cellular phones, the phone also assists in the operation. o­n the screen when taking pictures, there are various icons at the bottom of the screen allowing users easy access to features and settings such as brightness, contrast, frame, display size, file size, etc.. While a lot of the camera functions are chosen via a submenu, the F900i series presents them all with icons that are easily chooseable via directional keys.



Also, immediately after taking a picture, "miniSD" and "create mail" are displayed, when the "menu" button is pressed it will be saved to the miniSD card, and when the mail button is pressed, it will be sent as an attachment for a new email message.

This phone also includes the new FOMA oriented Dego Mail - for HTML type text formatting and such. The browser software also includes a scroll bar, meaning that users can tell how far along they in a page with just o­ne look. There is also the "display customize" feature which allows users to choose certain items that are entered into their datebook to be displayed o­n the main screen.

It can also synchronize with Outlook data when connected to a PC via the USB cable; and o­n 2004 Spring models of Fujitsu's "FMV-Deskpower/Biblo" series, recorded programs can be sent to the miniSD card for viewing o­n the F900i.

The F900i is 106 x 50 x 26 (H x W x T) and weighs 120g. It has a standby time of 480 hours, idle time of 360 hours, 160 minutes of talk time, and 100 minutes of TV phone time. It uses the Symbian OS. There are three body colors: lime green, silver, and navy.



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The NEC-made "N900i" has a bow-like design, called the Arcline.

This phone features a 1 megapixel CCD camera o­n the display side, and a 2 megapixel camera o­n the back side. This allows for images up to 1616 x 1212. When starting up the camera, "photo mode" o­nly goes up to 640 x 480 - in order to utilize the full resolution of the camera, users must choose "Megapixel photo" from the menu.



Photos shot in "Megapixel photo" can be resized for VGA size, iShot, LSize, etc. using the "function menu" then "mail size conversion." Thus, users can save a copy of the image o­n their phone for sending to others.

As for movies, users choose "chance capture" from the camera menu and can take movies as they see fit - even after pressing "stop recording" it will continue recording for another 15 seconds. This means that while o­n conventional units, some people would miss the things that they wanted to record, but this is not the case anymore. Theoretically, this extra 15 seconds should allow them to get what they wanted to. In the case of long movies, users choose "Long movie" from the menu instead.



While previous models had "still image" and "movie" recording options from the menu, the N900i uses sub-menus for each function, so as not to bury the new features.

Other unique functions include reading/writing the miniSD card via the PC. Users simply choose "USB settings" from the menu and can choose between transmission mode and miniSD mode. The factory defaults are set at transmission mode, so all o­ne needs to do is connect the phone to the PC and can use the miniSD card as a USB storage device and send data back and forth.

The N900 is 102 x 48 x 26 (H x W x T) and weighs 115g. It has a standby time of 430 hours, idle time of 350 hours, talk time of 140 minutes, and TV phone time of 90 minutes. There are three colors available: orange, silver, and black. It comes with the new iAppli "Dragonquest" pre-installed.



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2 megapixel camera, document viewer "SH900i"

The SH900i, a phone of Sharp make, includes a 2 megapixel CCD camera. It also has a miniSD slot, and can view Word, PDF, and other office document files.

The SH900i camera has auto focus, focus lock, manual focus, connecting pictures, QR code recognition, and OCR functions. It has a digital zoom up to 20x, and can also take 25 images in a row using the "rapid fire" function. When comparing the images size to the SH505iS, this o­ne has a new 960 x 1280 (SVGA) resolution, and 1224 x 1632 (2M) formats. Focus lock is achieved by pushing down the shutter button halfway. Also, above the main display, there is a 0.11 megapixel camera for use during TV-phone.



When using a 16MB miniSD card, up to 1 hour of video can be recorded at 128 x 90. Telop editing, and after-recording editing are supported. Also, using the "TV viewer function," users can view TV programs that were recorded o­n Sharp's AQUOS series of televisions. The movies are of the ASF format, with a G.726 audio standard; movies of the same format can be played.

The main feature of this unit is the unique document viewer application. In addition to Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and PDF documents, text, PNG, GIF, and BMP formatted files can also be viewed. Magnifcation, reduction, rotation, and scrolling are all supported. This unit also includes the newly Sharp-developed LC fonts - meaning that the characters inside of these files will be much more clear, even during magnification. It also supports "capture" feature which users can capture images out of this application and send them as image attachments for mail files. It also features an auto scroll function which will, for example, go back to the left side of the page when users scroll all the way to the right side of the page. The display can also be divided into two, and two different documents can be viewed at the same time. There is also page navigation for jumping between pages in a document.



The main display is a 2.4 inch QVGA 262,144 color low-reflection CGS screen. The subdisplay is a 160 x 120, 65,536 color TFT LCD screen. Standby time is 300 hours, idle time 400 hours, talk time 140 minutes, and TV phone time 90 minutes. It is 51 x 105 x 25 mm (W x H x T) and weighs 130g. There are three body colors: silver, red, and blue.



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-User customization with "jackets" o­n Panasonic's P900i phone

The P900i, of Panasonic Mobile Communications make, features a 1.28 megapixel CCD camera and interchangeable external "jackets" customizable by users. The size has increased 1mm since its announcement - it is now 104 x 50 x 24mm (H x W x T) - but it has also gotten 6g lighter. The standby time has is at 500 hours, idle time at 350 hours. Talk time is at 150 minutes, and TV phone time at 90 minutes. There are three body colors: black+clear white, silver+stripe red, silver+dot black.

It has an "out camera" o­n the back side of the device, and a "in camera" o­n the inside of the device. The "in camera" has an auto focus function and a CCD with an effective resolution of 1.28 megapixels, while the in-camera has 0.10 megapixels. The auto-focus function is the same as that o­n the P505iS; but this time around, after the camera auto-focuses, the frame around the image that is displayed o­n the screen will turn green, so users can easily tell if their picture has been focused or not.



Recording sizes are: SXGA (1280 x 960), VGA (640 x 480), CIF (352 x 288), QCIF (176 x 144), Sub-QCIF (128 x 96), and Wallpaper (240 x 266). The zoom has a max of 10x (Sub-QCIF) and up to 9 images can be taken in a row. There are also effects such as Sepia available for use. The phone also features a soundless movie recording mode in either QCIF or Sub-QCIF resolutions. Sound-only recordings are also possible via this function.

The "P900i" also has interchangeable external custom jackets. o­n the packages of these jackets are QR codes which users can use to download Flash, wallpapers, etc. that match their newly acquired jacket.



Other functions unique to the P900i include the FOMA multi-access feature, listed under "E Chat" in the menu. This lets users take pictures and send them or write mails during voice calls. Although mail can be sent to other companies phones during this period, it is o­nly when both users have "P900i" phones that they can confirm the contents of their mail. The mail address and phone numbers of the counterpart must be stored in the phone for this to work.

Also o­n the P900i comes "Final Fantasy" pre-installed, the iAppli version.







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