You may have been impressed with Motorola’s ROKR E2 mobile music phone and iRadio music service when both were announced at CES 2006 earlier this month. But you wouldn’t have been if you live in Japan. This, you see, is the Japanese equivalent from Japanese phone operator AU. The service is called AU LISMO (”Listen Mobile Service”), and like iRadio and many similar offerings from network operators and mobile phone manufacturers alike, it lets you download music, either using PC software, or directly over the air.

 

The killer difference, though, lies with the features of the accompanying AU W41T mobile phone:

Now compare these specs with Motorola’s ROKR E2, and try to work out whether these new phones were announced two weeks apart or two years apart! If you want to see the future of mobile phones, just look to the Asian markets. Japanese and Korean phones truly rock!