Panasonic Unveils International 3G Cell Phone

KingFish (KingFish) Panasonic Mobile Communications is unveiling its first Wideband Code Division Multiple Access cell phone for the international market, the company says.

October 26, 2004 5:57 PM ET in News,

Panasonic Mobile Communications is unveiling its first Wideband Code Division Multiple Access cell phone for the international market, the company says.

The handset is a clamshell-style cell phone that supports WCDMA and tri-band Global System for Mobile Communications and General Packet Radio Service. It includes a browser compatible with Wireless Application Protocol version 2.0, Java support, and software for e-mail, Short Message Service and Multimedia Message Service. The main display is a color thin film transistor LCD with 176-by-220-pixel resolution, and the subdisplay on the outside of the body is a color LCD with 64-by-96-pixel resolution. There are two cameras, an outer one with 1.3-megapixel resolution and an inner one with 110,000-pixel resolution. The phone also has Bluetooth, USB 2.0, and IrDA infrared ports and supports MiniSD memory cards. It measures 3.8 inches by 2 inches by 1 inch and weighs 4 ounces.

But will it cost 3 G’s too? -KF

Source: PC World

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8 Comments:

  1. Shorty
    27 Oct '04, 4:03 am

    3G continues to un-impress most of it's users (the UK has had 3G for several years).

    Along with EDGE. It's another "going to revolutionise mobile devices" that just hasn't been taken up. GPRS has started to gain ground in some markets (predominantly Canada) because providers have stopped ripping off their customers with overpriced tariffs.

    Perhaps the 3G crowd should think hard about their pricing model?

  2. Thrax
    27 Oct '04, 4:23 am

    Call me ignorant, and maybe I am being jingoistic here.. So my apologies if I come across that way.

    But could the failure of "Revolutionary" technological advancements in cellphones be attributed to the distinct lack of market uptake in the United States? Japan nonwithstanding (They'll like anything with an LCD screen!), the US seems to be a trendsetter in regards to the adoption of many technologies. If the US market fails to adopt a product, it seems to do relatively poorly in western Europe and Canada as well.

    It seems to me that the United States' sincere lack (And I mean that in a deriding context) of 3G or any other revolutionary broadband cell protocol is stifling the production elsewhere in the world as companies must artificially inflate their prices to compensate for a lack of US market penetration.

    Eh? Am I full of ****?

  3. GHoosdum
    27 Oct '04, 9:10 am

    I agree with you in that the US is the most backward country in the civilized world, from a cell-phone standpoint. We're just finishing our migration to GSM, while the rest of the world already has 3G.

  4. drasnor
    27 Oct '04, 8:04 pm

    Another problem is that in a lot of these countries, the charge plans are favorable for using features like e-mail and web browsing on your phone. Here in the states, they go charge happy for these "luxury" services.

    -drasnor

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  8. Thrax
    6 Nov '04, 12:27 am
    Quoting Unregistered (Guest)

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