DoCoMo has announcd four new stylish Mova handsets, just in time for CEATEC JAPAN 2004. I guess the guys at DoCoMo got sick of au and vodafone outdoing them in the "wild and crazy" phone design stakes. As always, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Update: 11:41 PM EST 10/05 - Added 40 pictures from DoCoMoPress. Enjoy! -zmcnulty

NTT DoCoMo has announced four new stylish Mova handsets.

The handsets are the premini successor, "premini-S", the thin clamshell-type, "prosolid", the music playback and FM radio equipped, square-shaped, "Music PORTER", and the artificial leather covered, "Lechiffon". All of the handsets will be o­n display at CEATEC JAPAN 2004, which begins 5 October.

The naming of each handset reflects their respective design concepts. The "S" of "premini-S" indicates "Second", "Sports", Soft taste" and "Sophisticated". "prosolid" is derived from a combination of the words "professional" and "solid". "Music PORTER" is a combination of "Music+Porter", meaning to carry music, and "Lechiffon" is from "chiffon", the French word for soft pastry. The model numbers for the "premini-S", "prosolid", "Music PORTER" and "Lechiffon" are SO213iS, P213i, D253iWM and P253iS respectively.

Main features of the new handsets include a sloped keypad for ease of use ("premini-S"), a 16.7mm-thin aluminium and magnesium case ("prosolid"), and an internal FM radio tuner and music playback ("Music PORTER"). The artifical leather cover of the "Lechiffon", which cannot be removed, imparts a soft feel (apparently!).

Two of the handsets have in-built cameras - the "Music PORTER" (0.32 megapixel CCD) and the "Lechiffon" (0.31 megapixel CMOS). The o­nly handset that accepts external memory is the "Music PORTER", which comes with a 64MB Memory Stick DUO. The communication speeds of the handsets are 9.6kbps up/down for the "premini-S" and 9.6kbps up/28.8kbps down for the remaining handsets.

Further details for each handset can be found in the related links.
Premini-S



Prosolid


Musicporter



Lechiffon




Inspired by:
http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/news_toppage/20809.html

News Release:
http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/new/contents/04/whatnew1004.html

Product Information:
http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/p_s/f/style_index.html

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The curvy and small-bodied "premini-S"
The 16.7mm-thin clamshell "prosolid"
The music playback capable "Music PORTER"
The soft-to-touch "Lechiffon"