Following announcements last week from DoCoMo and Vodafone KK, au today announced its summer 2006 handset lineup.

The operator revealed details of 6 CDMA2000 handsets and 1 CDMA1X handset for release this summer. Casio will release the G’zOne W42CA, a ruggedized, waterproof handset which nods towards the company’s G Shock watch collection. There are also handsets optimised for use as mobile music players – notably the W42S “Walkman Keitai” by Sony which boasts 30 hours playback time – but this time round all are flash memory based and there are no harddisk players like the W41T handset from au’s spring collection. There are handsets supporting digital Oneseg and analogue mobile TV.

# posted by Jan Kuczynski @ 8:00 am