Right off the bat we’re wowed by Sharp’s new V601SH cameraphone, which is another new handset being carried by Vodafone in Japan beginning in December. It has a built-in 2 megapixel digital camera (with an auto-focus lens!) that can record high-definition video clips, a video out port for watching those clips on a TV, and a large, 2.4-inch high-resolution display. But we get the feeling that someone went a little overboard when they decided to make it possible to turn the V601SH into a Bowlingual, that device which purports to translate a dog’s barking into human speech. The phone comes pre-installed with the Bowlingual software, although users have to buy a special SD memory card which contains all the necessary Bowlingual translation data to actually use it.
