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LG Prada with HSDPA for NTT DoCoMo

LG Prada with HSDPA for NTT DoCoMoLG Prada with HSDPA for NTT DoCoMo. A full touch screen mobile phone, “PRADA Phone by LG”, was just announced by NTT DoCoMo to be marketed for the Japanese cellphone users. The PRADA concept is faithfully represented in a special leather case, accessories and custom-tailored screen graphics that accompany the handset.

LG Prada features include an intuitive, full-size touch screen with vibration touch to improve usability. This function activates whenever users touch screen icons to make a call, use e-mail, take and view photos or listen to music. The 2 megapixel camera is equipped with a German-made Schneider-Kreuznach lens and auto-focus capability. Continue reading ‘LG Prada with HSDPA for NTT DoCoMo’

Vibrating Braille Handsets created by Blind Japanese

Vibrating Braille Handsets created by Blind JapaneseVibrating Braille Handsets created by Blind Japanese. Nobuyuki Sasaki, a former Tsukuba University of Technology professor, and his team have developed a new technology that converts the keypad key-presses into vibrating pulses (presumably correlated to the Braille alphabet). This handset can help the blind get more out of their mobile phones.

The vibrations and key-press conversions are handled by an external terminal. When the user “pushes numbers on the keypad corresponding to Braille symbols, two terminals attached to the receiver’s phone vibrate at a specific rate to create a message”. Continue reading ‘Vibrating Braille Handsets created by Blind Japanese’