Slashphone has gotten some better shots of those 5 new summer phones coming from Vodafone, along with information (and enough lull in all the game news to talk about them). Down the line, the green Mitsubishi V401D has a 2-megapixel camera with multiple lens covers, plus powers up the camera as soon as it is flipped open. An SD card slot boosts internal storage, should it be needed. The brown V401SA is from Sanyo, with a 1.3 megapixel camera, built-in FM radio, and 12MB of on board memory. It won’t hit the Japanese streets until mid-July. The baby pink V402SH is a Sharp handset, with a terrestrial analog TV tuner and a 1.3-megapixel camera. The LCD can be flipped around to use a camera viewfinder when closer, too. The orange V601T is the Toshiba karaoke phone we talked about a couple days ago, with the T4G graphics accelerator and, once again, 1.3-megapixel camera. Finally, the silver V602SH stands out as the world’s first handset to feature an optical 2x zoom for its 2.02-megapixel auto-focus camera, as well as the ability to connect to a TV to display pictures. It also comes with an SD card for storage.
All in all, some pretty hot phones (especially the V602SH), but sadly only available in Japan through Vodafone for now. I wouldn’t worry, though. I bet we see an optical zoom camera in the States before the end of the year.
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