LAS VEGAS — Unarguably the Japanese have some of the coolest cellphones. But just how cool? At the CTIA wireless trade show NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s leading telecom service provider, showed a few of the cellphones that it offers.
What caught my attention was the DoCoMo Prime F-01A. The phone from Fujitsu is waterproof enough to make calls under water at a depth of about three feet for up to 30 minutes.
It’ not the only waterproof phone that the company has. NTT also showed a range of kids phones offered in Japan that are fairly rugged and can be dropped into the toilet with little damage.
The F-01A GSM/W-CDMA phone comes with a 3.5-inch touchscreen and has a 5.2-megapixel camera. As a NTT DoCoMo marketing executive at the company’s booth put it, "It’s great when you want to make some calls even when you are in the shower."
The phone has been available in Japan for a few months but sadly there’s no chance of it coming to the U.S.
Photo: F-01A/Priya Ganapati
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