http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/parts/im ... 8-3-1.html Hot on the heels of the iPhone comes yet another oddball phone, albeit being Japan only: the Mitsubishi D800iDS, which - as its name implies - is a phone with a flip form factor with two screens (240x320 resolution each), the lower one being a touch screen. The phone can change its user interface to adapt to different degrees of complexity, and supports three text input methods including handwriting recognition. A couple of things that the Nintendo DS doesn't have is a camera (two, actually, one on the outside and one on the inside for videoconferencing,) and a "force reactor" feedback system to simulate the tactile feedback of a button press. The device runs user-made code in the form of Java applications, although it uses NTT DoCoMo's proprietary DoJa profile instead of Sun's J2ME. The second screen and the touch panel seems to be accessible from the code, as one of the bundled apps is a port of a NDS brain-training game. I wonder what kinds of stuff can come from this. I don't know of any other device that has both double cameras and double screens with a touch panel at the same time. Oddly enough, Mitsubishi seems to have no ties whatsoever with Nintendo. Risky name for a phone like that...
looks very promising! altough missing action keys is a BIG drawback. so you are completely limited to touch-screen action...
It looks a lot like my phone, but better. And more prone to dirt and whatnot. Like the thought of a touch screen, but has it been built with durability in mind? Guess time will tell if the phone's good enough to see shores outside Japan.
