Ever wondered what happens when you combine sweet foods such as mousse and pudding with mobile phones?

Sweets, au's newest CDMA 1X handset by Sanyo.

Along with the four handsets announced yesterday, au also announced a new contents service called "Chaku Flash." As its name implies, the service integrates Flash animation with sound effects, to bring yet another multimedia aspect to today's handsets.

In this article, Keitai Watch explains a bit more about what the service is, does, and looks towards the future.

There's four new au handsets o­n the horizon. The:

• W31SA, with music playback functionality
• W31K, going after ease of use
• A5509T, with emphasis o­n security
• A1404S, with an FM radio
  

Both "W" models are CDMA 1X WIN, and both "A" models are CDMA 2000 1X. Perhaps someone with more expertise can tell me the differences...
Either way, these appear to be standard fare. The design of the W31K caught my eye, but that's about it. Perhaps more interesting than any of the phones themselves is Chaku Flash, allowing for Flash animations to be played when a call comes in.

au reports their new "Chaku Uta Full" service is doing well. In some 48 days since the launch of the service, 1,000,000 songs have been downloaded.

We covered Chaku Uta Full when we first heard about it, so take a look at the older article too. In a nutshell, it's an electronic music distribution service (EMD) aimed at mobile phones; uses AAC compression, and so forth.

Do you often find yourself running across bipedal robots supporting Bluetooth, and think to youself, "damn, I wish I could control that with my Bluetooth mobile phone?" I know I do.

Well, KDDI finally has an answer for us. It's called the "au Mobile Phone Robot Controller." More details inside.

I *know* there's an American provider that already introduced this service. Which o­ne was it? Someone let us know.

Anyway, Japanese provider au will be introducing a service called "EZ Mochi Uta," which allows users to change the ringers that will play when their call is received o­n another phone. For example, when calling Johnny, Billy can specify that he wants Johnny to hear the theme from CHiPS.

Somehow I missed this from last week, but it looks like KDDI is set to offer a new application called "Applicon EZ" that allows phones to not o­nly display programming information, but act as remote controls for a variety of devices.

You've heard me mention EZ Navi Walker o­n here before (this week, in fact), but this new technology jointly developed by KDDI and NEC adds a new dimension to an already cool technology. Not o­nly can you navigate inside of buildings, but you can navigate from a floor-by-floor basis. For example, the navigation software can even tell you to "go up the escalator to the 5th floor," and follow you throughout the building. How is this done? Bluetooth.

All security issues aside, I think this technology would be really cool to have in a parking garage. If you can't find your car, you could whip out your phone, and it would tell you exactly what floor it's o­n, where, and so forth.

Here's a new au phone, which apart from the 20mm closed thickness, appears to be pretty standard. Isn't the Motorola RaZr like 11.3mm closed?

Well, I guess au would win, because the A5507SA will be released long before the RaZr.
Also, what's this with screens' brightnesses being given now? 220 candelas? How the hell am I supposed to know how bright that is?

AU may not have the hottest handsets o­n the face of the planet, but some of their services are cool. I like EZ Navi Walker, and this new EZ Chaku Uta Full is also pretty cool. Think of it like "iTunes Mobile" - you can download (near) CD quality audio right from your phone, and play it back o­n your phone.

This service is being launched with those four new phones we reported o­n earlier this week.