KDDI made an enormous announcement for au on Monday: 12 new handsets are to be released from as early as September. In the lineup we have the:

• W43H from Hitachi
  
• W47T from Toshiba
  
• DRAPE from Toshiba
  
• W43CA from Casio
  
• W43SA from Sanyo
  
• W43S from Sony Ericsson
  
• W43K from Kyocera
  
• W41SH from Sharp
  
• W45T from Toshiba
  
• W42SA from Sanyo
  
• W44K from Kyocera
  
• A5522SA from Sanyo
  

The W47T and DRAPE both support the upcoming EV-DO Rev.A, which we reported on last week in this article. The W43H, W43CA, DRAPE, and W47T also support BCMCS, also described in the above-mentioned article.

More details on each handset inside. Rather than making a different article for each handset, we'll instead puch each handset on a different page of a single article.

W43H from Hitachi

Hitachi's W43H allows for up to 4 hours and 15 minutes of One-Seg viewing. It is equipped with a microSD card slot, and One-Seg programs can be recorded to microSD cards as large as 512MB (working out to roughly 2 hours and 40 minutes of recording time when combined with the handset's internal 50MB of storage). It supports new au services such as EZ Channel Plus, EZ News Flash, au My Page, Decoration Mail, Address Book Entrust Safety Service, and so on. It also supports existing services such as LISMO, EZ Navi Walker, and Osaifu Keitai. TV Phone is not supported.

The widescreen 2.6" QVGA (240 x 400) screen has a dual-axis hinge, and the included charger allows the phone to be recharged whether it is oriented vertically or horizontally. There's also a 2MP camera with autofocus and stabilization technology.

Other functions include Hello Messenger, Safety Navi, PC Site Viewer, infrared communications, remote locking, ATOK for au + APOT, and SD-Audio playback.



Inspired by:
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/news_toppage/30736.html

Press Release (KDDI):
http://www.kddi.com/corporate/news_release/2006/0828/

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