Mitsubishi's D902iS slider for NTT DoCoMo

To the rest of the world, the D902iS is a ridiculously high-end object of desire -- but to Japan, what we have here is just another FOMA slider. The phone, slapped together by Mitsubishi for NTT DoCoMo, packs virtually every feature you can imagine into its 110 x 49 x 19.9mm chassis: 400 x 240 display (for when QVGA just isn't good enough and VGA is a little too much), 4 megapixel camera with MP4 video recording, MinSD slot, and full web browsing at a nice WCDMA clip of 384kbps. Heck, you even get a PDF reader. To boot, the menus are some of the most beautiful we've ever seen on any phone. Our Japanese readers probably got bored halfway through this post while the rest of you are drooling uncontrollably, and you can keep on drooling, folks -- we don't expect this one outside Japan.

[Via Mobile Magazine]

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 29th 2006 6:43PM]

What i've never understood is: if they have this sort of tech there... What's stopping it from coming here?! Does Japan have some sort of magical air to it that allows it to be two years ahead of us technologically? I don't understand why we are so far behind

[xbit Posted Jun 29th 2006 6:59PM]

Nice. I wish NTT DoCoMo sold it's Symbian-based handsets like this one outside of Japan.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 29th 2006 8:33PM]

#1: Because americans are interested in free or "just $29" phones that come with the service plan. These low-end but impressive to the public phones offer US carriers much more profit than high tech phones. People are happy to laugh and giggle at a 320x240 pic on a cell phone screen and be satisfied with that. We, who desire the best technology available, are very much a minority and a small part of a huge market of ignorant and easily satisfied consumers.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 29th 2006 9:05PM]

Im assuming not, but this phone would not work anywhere in the united states?

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 29th 2006 10:23PM]

I wouldn't go so far as to call people ignorant because they don't care about having a fancy cell phone. For some people, all they do is use their phone to make calls, and they're happy with what's free.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 1st 2006 2:37AM]

well think about it. look at something as simple as 3g, it has been developed for quite some time now, however we wornt ready for it. we the consumer thought it was an unnessesary technology and we dismissed it, while at the same time in japan they were going 3g crazy.
so simply put to the japs, korean and even the chinese maket now, they leading the techno life simply because they mature alot faster.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 1st 2006 4:57PM]

#5 actually ignorant is appropriate because not knowing about features is being ignorant of them. As you said they are happy with what's free.. ignorance is bliss :)

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 2nd 2006 3:23AM]

actually i think its all marketing strategy. The US releases products little bit litte, gaining as much profit as possible from the people that will buy every new technology that hits the streets...for example, they release phones with 1.3 megapixels and thats the highest that comes out...everyone buys them. OH dang...2 megapix comes along, everyones gotta have that now..when japan has 4 and 5 megapixel cameras out. its a very simple maketing strategy to make lots of money from yes...the "ignorant" people out there.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 2nd 2006 11:16AM]

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03/29/docomo_music_porter_x/

pretty much the same phone.
all buttons are the same, in the same places with just different shapes.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 20th 2006 5:43AM]

droool... it's sooo gorgeous...

Its so beautiful like my dream of a ... PSP-Phone!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 21st 2006 7:49PM]

got it, and like it..

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 8th 2006 5:57PM]

I have this phone and it is nice. All of this for only $65 dollars--. The only thing is the software is only in japanese. I am still trying to figure out how to connect it to my english win xp. But I just use the mini SD card manually to add my files for now.
Nice camera with flash. 2gb capacity. Push to talk feature. and all the other cell phone stuff.