NEC's V601N: Japan's First TV Cell Phone

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.wirelesswatch.jp/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=467' target='_blank'>http://www.wirelesswatch.jp/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=467</a><br /><br /></div><img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/v601ns.jpg" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/> "It's sassy, not clunky - but analog only. If this sounds like an ode to Japan's first Tellycelly, please make your call swift: The TV will only run about an hour before the batteries poop, but the sales potential is, we think, killer. Vodafone's V601N from NEC, on sale in December, follows Japan's long consumer electronics tradition; namely, a cool, high-tech gadget that will sell at a premium by the truckload. Watch the tube (no pesky packet fees), grab screen shots and capture live video from broadcast programs, access TV guides via browser, and use it as a remote to control your karaoke machine. Watch our exclusive WWJ video clip of the 'next big thing' in action at Vodafone's October press conference when the unit was introduced."

[DubWireless]

DoCoMo were displaying a demo handset that did TV at the Wireless World conference in last summer Japan - i wasn't sure at the time how it was being delivered (my Japanise is only very basic!) - but my friend later translated that it was a TV tuner integrated into the handset

http://devices.ie/external/smartphonethoughts/docomo_tvhandset.jpg

not as neat as the clam shell in the report though but it had great quality and was a big eye opener for me as only colour handsets available to us in Europe at that stage was the SonyEricsson T68i and Nokia 7650!