Japan's J-PHONE says that it will launch the J-SH53 by Sharp, which comes with a built-in CCD mobile camera capable of photographing 1 million effective pixels for high-quality pictures. Scheduled to go on sale after late May 2003, the J-SH53 is also Movie Sha-mail (video messaging) compatible.
With its 1 million effective pixel "Megapixel CCD Mobile Camera", the J-SH53 can take pictures in resolutions of up to 1144 x 858 dots for high quality prints. The handset also comes with a 2.4-inch QVGA*1 "System LCD" display for unsurpassed screen quality and resolution.
The J-SH53 features expanded "Super Mail" capabilities, making it possible to send MPEG-4*2 compatible video messages (Movie Sha-mail) of up to 10 seconds in length and pictures (Sha-mail) taken in wallpaper mode (QVGA size). Gaming enthusiasts will also appreciate the J-SH53's expanded Java application storage capacity, the industry's largest at 256 kilobytes, for true 3D mobile gaming.
Like previous models in the series, the J-SH53 is SD Memory Card compatible to enable the convenient use of music player and voice recorder applications. Marking an industry first, the J-SH53 comes with an e-book viewer function to be used with SD Cards, allowing users to view electronic dictionary and e-book contents.
To make use of the global brand appeal of the Vodafone Group, the world's largest mobile community of which J-PHONE is a member, the J-SH53 comes emblazoned with the Vodafone logo. To further increase the Vodafone brand presence in Japan, future handsets will also be Vodafone-branded in a similar fashion.
With the addition of the J-SH53 to the J-PHONE lineup, there are now a total of eight Movie Sha-mail handsets, thereby bringing the pleasures of video messaging to an even greater number of people."
Posted to the site on 25th April 2003
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