NTT DoCoMo Launch Phone Incorporating New Technology

LONDON -(Dow Jones)- NXT announced Friday that NTT DoCoMo, Inc. and its eight regional subsidiaries have Friday launched the 2G mova(R) N506iS, the world's first mobile phone to incorporate NXT's SoundVu technology, whereby the flat panel display also functions as a speaker.

The N506iS's flat panel speaker enhances the audio experience for the user in two distinct ways. For voice calls, the user can hear the person on the other end clearly by holding any part of the panel to the ear.

With multimedia services, the speaker's use of the entire display makes audiovisual content more vivid than conventional handsets, whose speakers are located on the side of the display.

The N506iS includes the 180-degree display "reverse styleTM" rotation feature as well as the "shuttlekeyTM" function that enables telephoning, e-mailing and browsing after the handset has been opened, rotated and then closed again.

Other functions include an access reader that allows storage of information from business cards written in Japanese to the phone's address book, as well as dictionary searches for unfamiliar words.

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Posted to the site on 7th January 2005