Vodafone Japan's latest radiophone, the Sanyo V401SA
Vodafone Japan is getting ready to ship the V401SA, a handset with a stereo FM radio that marks their latest attempt to push the idea of emailing and browsing while your phone provides the soundtrack. There's a neat "Now on Air" function that allows you to browse playlist information as you listen, too.
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like they've thought this concept through enough to provide a microphone as part of the bundled headphones/FM antenna, so you'll still have to rip them out each time the phone rings. It's a slide-type design that comes in at only 20mm thick, and still manages to cram in a 1.3 megapixel camera and a healthy 12MB of internal storage. It's got IR/USB, supports PictBridge, and has a nice big 2.4-inch QVGA (240 x 320 pixel) LCD screen with 65K
colors. [PDF warning for the link below.]