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7.7mm NEC MEDIAS E-04C Android smartphone bests chubby Arc and Galaxy S II

Chris Davies, Feb 21st 2011 Discuss [3]

How skinny is too skinny? NEC obviously reckons Android smartphones aren't quite slender enough, since the new NEC MEDIAS E-04C is a waifish 7.7mm at its slimmest point. Packing Android 2.2 Froyo and, according to Draft life with blog, headed to Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo later this month, the MEDIAS E-04C usurps Samsung's Galaxy S II, a comparatively tubby 8.49mm, and the Sony Ericsson XPERIA Arc, a bloated, corpulent 8.9mm. Read The Full Story

Sony PSP2 has OLED touchscreen, 3G & new CPU tips Nikkei

Chris Davies, Jan 24th 2011 Discuss [1]

Further details on the upcoming Sony PSP2 have leaked, with the gaming handheld tipped to use an OLED touchscreen larger than the display on the current PSP. According to Nikkei, the PSP2 will have an integrated 3G modem along with WiFi; in Japan, Sony will use an NTT DoCoMo connection to enable mobile multiplayer gaming, download software, and watch movies. Read The Full Story

Samsung Predicts Selling 40 Million Smartphones in 2011, plus an Array of Tablets

Chris Burns, Nov 4th 2010 Discuss [0]

Samsung's mobile devision head Shin Jong-kyun has told reporters in Seoul that the company expects to sell more than 20 million smartphones by the end of 2010, (up from 18 million units projected earlier in the year.) From there, he said, Samsung Electronics Co feels it will sell more than 40 million smartphones worldwide in 2011. This was reported by the lovely Nikkei Business Daily newspaper in sunny Seoul South Korea. Read The Full Story

Buggy Sharp DoCoMo LYNX SH-10B Android MID sales frozen; only 7k bought in 2 months

Chris Davies, Sep 17th 2010 Discuss [0]

Looks like NTT DoCoMo aren't having much luck with Sharp's LYNX SH-10B Android MID. The company froze sales of the QWERTY handheld a week ago, after discovering a security loophole that could allow malicious software to harvest text, then settled on an update that apparently fixed the flaw and would let the carrier put the SH-10B back on sale from tomorrow. Now that's changed again, with the discovery of a further bug in the MID. Read The Full Story

Sharp DoCoMo LYNX SH-10B Android MID hits Japan this month

Chris Davies, Jul 20th 2010 Discuss [1]

It looks like Sharp are playing the field when it comes to carrier partnerships for their IS01 Android-based MID. Having already been picked up by Japanese network KDDI, a strikingly similar looking model has just been announced for NTT DoCoMo. The DoCoMo LYNX SH-10B has a 5-inch touchscreen, full QWERTY keyboard and dual digital cameras - 5.3-megapixels on the outside, 4.3-megapixels on the inside - and runs Android. Read The Full Story

NTT DoCoMo Working With Various Players to Bring 3G to Handheld Game Manufacturers

Evan Selleck, Jul 7th 2010 Discuss [0]

When it comes to video games in the hand, having a WiFi connection isn't necessarily a newfangled feature. In fact, some handheld consoles out there require a WiFi connection to actually be viable. And while the Nintendo 3DS has WiFi, yes, and Nintendo wants the console to have an "always-connected" presence to those WiFi networks, what about when you're not near a hotspot of any sorts? If a new report from The Wall Street Journal says what it's clearly saying, then it looks ilke NTT DoCoMo over in Japan is hard at work with various unnamed folks to bring 3G connectivity to handheld gaming consoles. Read The Full Story