Vodafone Japan's would-be radical KOTO handset
We're having trouble working out exactly what is so innovative about this phone apart from the look of it, since Vodafone Japan's website is extremely long on hot air and short on details; but it looks like the new Toshiba KOTO-V303T is an attempt to inject some much-needed pizzazz into a rather staid lineup. The look is great, but the specs are something of a letdown: 2.2-inch superfine polysilicon TFT display, yeah, but a 320,000 pixel camera is pretty average for Japan, and why having 40-note polyphonic modern jazz ringtones preinstalled is a selling point is beyond us. It does have a cool-looking desktop cradle that looks like it ought to be able to do PC syncing, but it could just be a battery charger—no way to know given the skimpy specs. Out sometime in May in Japan, open-priced.
