NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and eight regional subsidiaries announced today that the SH900i, the fourth handset in the new 3G FOMA® 900i series, will be released on March 20, 2004.
The 900i series, the most advanced series of FOMA i-mode® mobile phones ever released, features a Macromedia® Flash™-equipped browser, HTML e-mail and avatar-capable videophone. Compared with the original series of FOMA phones, 900i models offer three times longer standby and weigh 20 percent less. The just-released 900i series is expected to fuel a sharp increase in FOMA subscribers.
Main features of the handset:
CCD camera with 2.02 mega-pixel effective resolution and 2 mega-pixel recorded resolution. Takes max. 2 mega-dot (1,224 x 1,632) photos. Auto focus works even with close-ups
20x digital zoom. Takes up to 25 continuous photos. Bracket Multishot takes up to nine continuous photos in different hues. Overlap Multishot overlaps five continuous photos for composite images.
Document Viewer that reads e-mail stored in miniSD™ memory card and files made with Microsoft® Word, Microsoft® Excel, Microsoft® Powerpoint®, PDF, etc.
Close-up photos of written material (approx. 60 alphanumeric characters) that may be read, converted (via OCR) and stored as phone numbers, e-mail addresses or URLs.
Voice recorder that enables up to 120 minutes of voice recorded on a 16 MB miniSD card.
Function enabling menu operation and e-mail access via sub-display even when handset is closed.
