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SMT-i9100: Japan Gets Galaxy Tab-Like Samsung Tablet
Japan’s KDDI Rolls Out New Smartphones And Designer Phones
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SMT-i9100: Japan Gets Galaxy Tab-Like Samsung Tablet

Posted: 18 Oct 2010 03:41 AM PDT

Last week at CEATEC 2010 in Japan, I saw attendees going nuts over the Galaxy Tab, which Japan’s biggest mobile carrier, NTT Docomo, won the local marketing rights for. And today, the No. 2 company in that space in Japan, KDDI, announced the so-called SMT-i900 [JP], which looks like a rebranded version of said tablet but is actually a different device.

Like the Galaxy Tab, the SMT-i9100 has a 7-inch LCD touchscreen with 1,024×600 resolution, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth, 512MB RAM, and runs on Android 2.2 Froyo.

But spec-wise, the KDDI device is weaker, featuring no front camera, a 2MP CMOS camera (instead of the 3MP rear camera the Galaxy has), and just 4GB of internal memory (Galaxy: 16 or 32GB). In addition, KDDI decided to swap the TouchWiz UI with the Ocean Observation UI.

KDDI plans to start selling the SMT-i9100 in Japan in February 2011 with an open price model.

Via Keitai Watch [JP]

Japan’s KDDI Rolls Out New Smartphones And Designer Phones

Posted: 18 Oct 2010 02:40 AM PDT

Japan's second biggest mobile carrier KDDI has just announced its cell phone line-up for this winter. The company unveiled no less than 19 new handsets today: three smartphones, 14 feature phones and another two "designer phones", which will be marketed under KDDI's sub brand iida. All the main specs for the new smartphones and iida handsets (the feature phones follow in a separate post) on MobileCrunch.