Japanese phones used to be 2 years ahead of Europe and the US.
Then came the iPhone, which instantly made Japanese phones look cumbersome and irrelevant, and they’ve fallen increasingly behind ever since.
With their silly flip form factors that…

Remember the Panasonic Lumix phone that teased us last week? Well here it is in the flesh, complete with its Mobile VenusEngine! Unfortunately, and despite Panasonic’s best efforts to get us all interested in it, it’s actually all a bit…

Fujitsu have been showing off a touchscreen phone prototype at Japan’s CEATEC show this week. I say touchscreen – Fujitsu’s latest technical marvel is actually a clamshell phone with two touchscreens, each of which is in sync with the other.…

The Dell Streak, the super-huge Android smartphone with a whopping 5″ touchscreen, now has some competition in the form of this, the new Sharp LYNX SH-10B. Also featuring a 5″ touchscreen, the Sharp Lynx is just as big as the…

Japanese phones used to be years ahead of anything we had here in Europe and decades ahead of those in the US, but not any more. The latest US and European smartphones are super-slick devices with gorgeous user interfaces, while…

Remember the Yamaha Music Phones that I blogged about a few days ago? They’re a series of concept phones made by Yamaha for Japanese mobile operator KDDI, each of which combines the humble mobile phone with a musical instrument. There…

This bizarre looking mobile phone isn’t, as you might expect, a concept phone, or a prototype, or even some Frankenstein-phone cobbled together from old bits of meccano by a devout Transformers fan. It is, in fact, the new SoftBank 815T…

Twin-screened phones are so last year. What people really need is a phone with three screens. Well, at least according to Japanese mobile phone operator Au KDDI, anyway. Au have released details of some fantastic looking concept phones, some of…

Feast your eyes on these pics of a brand new Sony Ericsson BRAVIA phone. The phone in question is the Sony Ericsson SO903iTV, and is a beast of a phone! Not only does it support mobile TV, it features Sony’s…