3 New 3G Handsets

1st June, 2004

ASIA : NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and its eight regional subsidiaries today unveiled three highly advanced handsets that will bring unprecedented functionality to the 3G FOMA® 900i series. The release date for each model will be announced soon.

The companies also announced that the number of FOMA service subscribers surpassed the four million mark yesterday, just two months after reaching three million. The coming release of three highly advanced 900i handsets is also expected to stimulate continued rapid growth of the FOMA subscriber base.

The basic features of the 900i series include:

Java®-based i-appli™ applications with a 400K scratch pad and up to 100K for content/archiving, compared with 200K and 30K (respectively) in existing models
Deco-mail: HTML e-mail that can be decorated with artistic backgrounds, fonts and letter colors, as well as photos and animation that may be downloaded from i-mode menu sites
Chara-den: Videophone with animated cartoon characters to express the sender's feelings, emotions, etc., and ability to initiate real-time changes in the expressions of "avatar" characters
Chaku-motion: Ability to combine video and high-fidelity music (AAC format) clips to signal incoming calls.

F900iT ( Above )
The F900iT boasts a wireless Bluetooth® headset for convenient, hands-free conversations. When folded with the camera lens and TFT main screen rotated to face outward, the phone can be used as a compact digital camera and Web viewer. Pictures drawn with a stylus on the touch-type main screen can also be e-mailed as attachments.

F900iT
Size
Height x width x thickness
(folded)
110 x 53 x 32 mm
Weight 154 grams
Continuous Stand-by Time 450 hours (static), 340 hours (dynamic)
Continuous Talk Time 140 minutes
Continuous Video Calling 100 minutes
Main LCD 2.4 inches (320 x 240 dot); 262,144 colors; QVGA;
TFT
Sub LCD 1.0 inches; 3 color (96 x 38 dot), Organic EL LCD
External Memory Device miniSD™ Memory Card
Camera
Outer:
CCD camera
Effective resolution: 1.28 mega pixels
Recorded resolution: 1.23 mega pixels

N900iS

The N900iS comes equipped with 20 "deco-mail" templates for decorative e-mails. On-screen dictionaries (Japanese, English-Japanese and Japanese-English) can be easily accessed with the Multi-Task® button while surfing the internet or writing e-mail. The phone has a pre-recorded voice to read out e-mails.

N900iS
Size
Height x width x thickness
(folded) 102 x 48 x 26 mm
Weight 115 grams
Continuous Stand-by Time 430 hours (static), 350 hours (dynamic)
Continuous Talk Time 140 minutes
Continuous Video Calling 90 minutes
Main LCD 2.2 inches (320 x 240 dot); 65,536 colors; QVGA; TFT
Sub LCD 0.9 inch (30 x 120 dot); 4,096 colors, STN LCD
External Memory Device miniSD™ Memory Card
Camera
Outer: Super CCD Honeycomb Camera
Effective resolution: 1 mega pixels
Recorded resolution: 2 mega pixels
Inner: CCD camera
Effective resolution: 110,000 mega pixels
Recorded resolution: 100,000 mega pixels
Colors Red, Pink, Black, or Silver
CMOS camera
Effective resolution: 110,000 mega pixels
Recorded resolution: 100,00 mega pixels
Colors Black

P900iV
The P900iV folds for use like a video camera, with the lower half serving as a handy grip and the main screen rotating up or down for convenient viewfinding. The model also features effective 2-mega pixel resolution. Videos and still images stored in the phone can be viewed on a TV screen using an optional cable, and movie resolution has been boosted to 320 dots by 240 dots--more than three times the figure of previous handsets (176 by 144).P900iV
Size
Height x width x thickness
(folded) 102 x 50 x 27 mm
Weight 138 grams
Continuous Stand-by Time 500 hours (static), 350 hours (dynamic)
Continuous Talk Time 150 minutes
Continuous Video Calling 90 minutes
Main LCD 2.4 inches (320 x 240 dot); 262,144 colors; QVGA;
TFT
Sub LCD 1.0 inches (64 x 96 dot); 4,096 colors; STN
External Memory Device miniSD Memory Card
Camera
Outer: CCD Camera
Effective resolution: 1.95 mega pixels
Recorded resolution: 1.92 mega pixels
Inner: CMOS camera
Effective resolution: 100,000 mega pixels
Recorded resolution: 100,000 mega pixels
Colors Japan Gold, Crowd Black, or Bronze orange

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