KDDI's five new babies

It's an unspoken law in the Japanese cellphone industry that handsets never get launched alone, and KDDI abides by it by dropping five newies on us all at once today. As ever with KDDI, the specs of the first four lack the military unity of DoCoMo, and it's pointless trying to nail down common features; there are megapixel cameras that shoot up to QVGA-sized movies, stereo speakers, big screens, the cellphone version of Opera, GPS, Bluetooth, USB webcam functionality, FM radios, and a host of other things spread liberally across the range. The fifth handset announced today is perhaps the pick of the bunch, though: a Marc Newson-designed handset called the
talby (pictured above) that has a 3.3-megapixel camera and comes in at 0.5-inches thick and 2.8 ounces.