Video: KDDI's iida INFOBAR Android Handset Boasts Unique Design, UI [Update: New Video]
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Japan’s second largest mobile carrier KDDI au unveiled its summer line-up of cell phones today, and one of the 15 new models is particularly interesting: the so-called INFOBAR A01 [JP], which is part of KDDI’s designer sub-brand iida. The biggest selling points are the Android phone’s pretty unique design and UI.
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First, the specs:
- 3.7-inch LCD with 960×540 resolution
- Android 2.3
- 8MP camera
- e-wallet function
- digital TV tuner
- infrared
- USB, microSDHC ports
- Bluetooth 3.0+EDR, Wi-Fi (IEEE802.11b/g/n)
- CDMA GSM
- 6-axis motion sensor
- size: 118×63×11.8mm, weight: 113g
And the UI is simply beautiful, as you can see in the video embedded below (it’s in Japanese, but that doesn’t matter too much in this case):
KDDI plans to start offering this Android INFOBAR in Japan this summer.
Update:
Our friends over at Diginfonews in Tokyo just posted this video (subbed in English) they took of the handset earlier today at the KDDI press conference:
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