New crop of Panasonic cellphones for Asia

Seems Panasonic has dropped an awful lot of new cellphones on us at the PT/EXPO COMM CHINA2004 show, which range from vaporous to solid. The UMTS/GSM/GPRS Z800 (pictured right) should hopefully turn up all over the place by virtue of its sheer multibandedness (it's their first 3G handset), while the X100, X200, X700, A200 and A500 (we'd feel so much more for them if they were called Dave, Mike and Julie) are GSM-only; the X700 apparently marks Panasonic's first Symbian phone. (Photos of these are in Panasonic's Japanese press release here.)