KDDI au has unwrapped its new offerings that will amaze the Japanese citizens this summer. There are some interesting phones out of the eight models announced.

First is Hitachi’s Mobile Hi-Vision CAM Wooo, capable of recording videos at 720p, 30fps and comes with an HDMI-out to view the HD recorded video on an HDTV.

Toshiba’s Biblio is touted as an e-book reader. It features an EZ Book service, a 3.5-inch screen, 7GB user storage, QWERTY keyboard and Wi-Fi.

Sharp will be selling its SH002 Solar Phone. The phone is waterproof and claims to give a minute worth of talk time or about 2 hours of standby on a 10 minutes recharge.

There’s also Casio’s rugged G’z One CA002, Sharp’s waterproof Sportio water beat and another waterproof from Toshiba, T002.

All the phones will launch consecutively after May 29.

KDDI Lineup

[Via AVWatch]

Renoir and Pixon please make way for the new heavyweight champion coming from the land of rising sun. Casio, the maker of the phone refrains from giving any marketing friendly name but simply christens it as W63CA Exilim phone. The clamshell phone uses Casio’s ‘Exilim engine for Mobile’ and packs a lot of photography features that is enough to give a decent point-and-shoot digital camera a run for its money. The effective megapixel counts goes up to 8.1 megapixels and features a wide-angle lens, 9-point AF with face detection, continuous shooting, anti-shake and 10X digital zoom. It supports video recording which is complemented with a ‘Ideal for YouTube’ mode. The YouTube feature allows the phone to record the video at 30fps.

The W63CA features is not limited to camera only. It boasts a 3.1-inch OLED screen with WVGA resolution (800X480 pixels) that can be twisted much like the screen of a tablet PC. In short, it will transform the phone to a digital camera with a large screen working as a live viewfinder. Finally, there’s 1Seg for live TV, microSD card slot, TV-Out, Bluetooth, mobile dictionary and ability to read aloud words translated from Japanese to English and vice versa.

The phone, unfortunately is limited to Japan with KDDI scheduled to release it in early November.

Casio Computers from Japan announced that they have successfully created a prototype of a 2-inch QHDVGA capable of producing resolution of up to 960 x 540 pixels. The quarter high-definition (QHD) screen has been made with company’s own technology known as Hyper-Amorphous Silicon TFT (HAST) which allows to maintain a higher resolution as well as the required aperture ratio taking the pixel density to 546ppi, highest ever in the industry.

Screen Specifications:

Type: Landscape
Size: 2.0-inch
Number of pixels: 960×RGB×540
Resolution: 546ppi
Viewing angle: 160 degrees (horizontally and vertically)
Number of colors: 16.77 million

Press Release

Casio reveals EX-FH20, a high speed compact digital camera capable of taking multiple shots per second. 9.1 is the effective megapixel count with 20X optical zoom. However, it is not the megapixel count which makes it special but the high speed burst capture rate which goes to 40fps for a still image shot at 7 megapixel (3072 x 2304 pixels) or up to 1000fps for video capturing. It is also capable of recording 720p HD video at 30fps. Other features include anti-shake, high speed night scene mode and different burst modes for shooting images and videos at different fps.

The camera will be available from October for a price of $600.

[Via Gizmodo]