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Panasonic's P702iD looks sentient to us
"Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?" This little gem is the P702iD from Panasonic, which (you guessed it) is destined for NTT DoCoMo's FOMA network. Besides the (moderately frightening) LED array underneath the phone's surface -- which can be programmed to display one of ten different patterns of varying color and intensity, they say -- stand-out features include a microSD slot, 1.3 megapixel shooter, and push-to-talk. The "Feel*Talk" feature analyzes the user's voice in real time and chooses animations and LED effects based on their mood; of course, it probably chooses not to open the pod bay doors, too.
NTT DoCoMo adds six to endless array of FOMA choices
NTT DoCoMo -- in an apparent bid to not just out-do, but humiliate the rest of the world's carriers -- has dropped yet another six 3G flips on its home crowd. The new handsets are part of NTT's "7 Series" of fashion-oriented phones, and include entries from Mitsubishi, Panasonic, NEC, Motorola, and Sharp. Moto has actually contributed two models here, one in the V3x vein and the other apparently a let's-see-how-long-we-can-milk-this port of the original V3. All six of the phones support the typical i-mode goodness, FOMA, video calling, and an array of functions that sound like science fiction to the non-Japanese among us.
