I think I like the "INFOBAR" more, but here's the third phone bourne of the "au design project." Looks alright....I think I'd appreciate it more if it wasn't designed by this "Marc Newson" guy. I would feel a lot better if he had some experience, but no, this is "the first phone [he] has ever designed."

Also, world's first phone with its own soundtrack!

KDDI has announced four new CDMA 1X WIN handsets for winter - the Casio W21CA, the Toshiba W21T, the Sanyo W22SA and the Hitachi W22H. The new handsets all have stereo twin speakers, megapixel-class cameras and enhanced support for music downloads and movie playblack. The marketing boffins have also obviously been hard at work dreaming up names for the new handset colours which include "Breeze Green", "Sunrise Yellow", "Buffy White" and, best of all, "Evil Brown"!!

Confirming previous rumours, KDDI and Okinawa Cellular will add full browser functionality to a number of their CDMA 1X WIN handsets. The browser software will be provided by Opera Software, whose browser implementation for mobile phones is well regarded among users.

Author's note: A service like this is well suited to the WIN handsets, which have data transmission speeds high enough to provide a decent service. For the rest of us, I guess we'll just have to stick to using Google's WML proxy service!

Instead of having to buy a new phone to read IC tags, wouldn't it be better to be able to just plug a card into your memory card slot?
Yes, it would. AU is here to help.

Here's me playing catch-up for what I missed last night.

This "A1403K" from Kyocera for au has a baby-toy like design, with a bunch of round edges all over the place. Pictures explain better than I can, so I've got o­ne for you.
I particularly like the appearance of "Black x Orange"; images of this particular color scheme are in the Inspired by article.

Java and BREW are somehow related; the people that made this software understand that relationship much better than I do.
Simple concept - games written for NTT DoCoMo's i-Mode can be used o­n AU phones through BREW.
DoCoMO games are Java, and BREW games are C, and since Java is based o­n C, poof - instant conversion.

I don't know how Fujitsu got mixed up in this, but there's a new EZ Appli that came out that will sing your emails to.

Anyone in Japan, I'd LOVE to get an audio sample up o­n here. I'll even refund you the 315 yen!

I can't say there's many suprises though. We have the:

-W21SA with a 2MP camera and FM radio, and interesting design
-W21S with a 1.3MP camera and IR port
-W21K, the "standard model." You know what that means.

Finally.

Our "day of color" continues with au's announcement of two new colors of the A5503SA, a phone with an internal FM tuner, among other things.