Another week, another round of new handsets. Inside, we take a look at the:-Easy Phone Simple-Music Porter II-Prosolid II-MUSIC PORTER XAll for NTT DoCoMo. This announcement happens to come exactly o­ne year after the announcement of the original Prosolid and Music Porter. Coincidence? I think not!

Continuing in the Phone Bonanza series, DoCoMo has announced a rather bizarre looking handset for receiving single-segment broadcasts (which are digital terrestrial broadcasts intended solely for use by portable devices) called the "P901iTV," and also announced a nice looking prototype of a phone that features a touchscreen display instead of a keypad.

NTT DoCoMo has announced the "Radiden," a cross between a mobile phone and a radio. It's the world's first handset to feature an integrated AM/FM/TV tuner, and uses a "Dual Front Design."

First it's plane tickets, then train tickets, and now...baseball tickets! Yes, the next time you hit the Yahoo Dome (where the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks play), be sure to take your i-Mode FeliCa compatible FOMA handset as you can feel the wireless IC glory.

Two new handsets from two popular names. Fujitsu introduces the F700iS, an improvement to the F700i, and Sharp the SH700iS, an improvement to their SH700i. Pretty straightforward, eh?

NTT DoCoMo has developed a "FOMA AV Unit," which is more or less just a board with all sorts of AV functionality o­n it that can connect to the FOMA network. What would that do for you? Well, this makes it painfully easy for companies to develop products with A/V functionality that can connect directly to your mobile phone -- DoCoMo offers the example of in-home robotics, but given the assortment of inputs this thing has, there could be far wider implications.

I'm glad to see the world getting more and more wireless. Honestly, wires have really started to bother me.

NTT DoCoMo, champion of all things wireless, now takes their "contactless" philosophy a step further (you may remember their contactless IC FeliCa phones, and our FeliCa BLOWOUT coverage over a year ago), announcing a pretty exciting development yesterday.

In cooperation with Panasonic Mobile Communications, they have developed a contactless recharging stand. I know basically nothing of how it works, besides that it uses "electromagnetic induction." I thought the o­nly way to combine "contactless" and "power" was with microwave radiation, and SimCity 2000 taught me microwaves can get quite nasty. Shows what I know.

Anyway, more details inside.

DoCoMo wastes no time bringing out the new technology, so they're already well into working o­n 4G (fourth-generation) transmission standards for the next generation of mobile phones.

The latest test was conducted outdoors, where DoCoMo has successfully pulled 1Gbps.

NTT DoCoMo will be holding classes about the history and manners of mobile phones. The classes will be held at elementary, middle and high schools in the Koushinetsu area of Kanto (surrounding Tokyo).

NTT DoCoMo will be introducing the "M-1000" handset from Motorola, a W-CDMA/GSM/GPRS device that features the Symbian OS.