Japanese mobile phone company AU KDDI is renowned for releasing concept phones that eventually make it into production. However, when the company unveiled its latest concept, the InfoBar2, back in November 2006, no-one really expected them to turn it into a production model.

Yet that's exactly what the company has done, and will be putting it on sale in Japan in November 2007.

More details and pictures after the jump.

The most striking thing about the InfoBar2 is its design, with a novel rounded shape making it stand out from its competitors (particularly its Japanese competitors, whose phones always tend to look the same, even if they offer different features).

It's not exactly short of features, either. Boasting a 2.6" OLED screen, the InfoBar2 comes with a One-Seg DMB TV tuner for mobile TV (complete with video recording ability via microSD card), 2 megapixel camera, MP3 player, Felica electronic money technology, and AGPS Sat-Nav.

All this in a unit just 15.5mm thin!

Concept phones always get the fan boys drooling with excitement, but hats off to AU KDDI for actually turning their prototypes into reality.

[Source: GearFuse]