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We’ve already digested everything there is to know about Android, the Google-led open operating system for mobile phones and a little about LiMo, the other open-source challenger, but we’ll bet you didn’t know there are two spanking new LiMo phones on the market.
Unsurprisingly, both phones – the P905i from Panasonic (below) and the N705iμ (“myu”) from NEC (top) - are Japanese and have reached the giant network of NTT DoCoMo just this week.
The Viera-branded P905i is part of DoCoMo’s flagship range of phones with everything on – it’s a chunky model that sports a 3.2-inch screen, a 1-seg digital TV tuner, 5.1-megapixel camera, GPS, RFID e-cash and plenty more besides.
Considerably less flashy, the N705iμ suffers from none of the bloat that blights the top-end handsets of the major Japanese carriers. It is less than 1cm thick and concentrates on being a phone, rather than a Swiss Army Knife of a gadget that looks like a brick.
Even so, NEC’s mobile still has the essentials – 2-megapixel camera, 3.6Mbps HSDPA downloads and a very nice operating system. We know which we’d go for.
(Crossposted to TechRadar)
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