36 phones announced for Japanese consumers

Its raining phones in Japan. Two Japanese operators, Softbank and NTT DoCoMo have announced 17 and 19 phones respectively. The phones range in every form factor with clamshell being the favorite and power packed spec sheet. Most of the phones have no less than 3.5-inches of display, at least an 8MP camera, GPS and more.

You can take a look at the models here (Softbank) and here (NTT DoCoMo) and dream about getting these someday in other countries. All the phones will come in the market by April 2010.

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