Name: DoCoMo NM705i
Category: Cell phone
Price: Open price
Release date in Japan: March 19, 2008

Global roamers will be interested in NTT DoCoMo's new Nokia Japan-made FOMA NM705i 3G + quad-band GSM cell phone. DoCoMo promises that the small and slim "straight type" (non-clamshell) device operates in 156 counties with the company's WORLD WING international roaming network for DoCoMo FOMA handset users.

Additional fun for the traveler includes a "World Clock" that packs the time in 15 cities onto one screen, unit and currency conversions, and a two-way Japanese-English dictionary with over 160,000 words.

Tech specs boast a 2.0" 320x240 TFT display, 1.9 megapixel camera, microSD/microSDHC card memory (up to 4 GB), an 89-gram heft, and Bluetooth for wireless headset connection. Fashion hounds can ponder the choice of a Stylish Black, Noble White, or Bitter Orange exterior.

You'll be wanting that WORLD WING capability to make the NM705i your phone of choice, though. There's a good list of features not offered on the cellie: "osaifu keitai" contactless IC card, one-seg TV, bar code reader, PDF and document viewers, and GPS, as well as some of DoCoMo's fancier music download and text editing features.

Nokia is betting on products like the NM705i and its N95 for Softbank (expected next month) to boost its modest position in Japan's crowded handset space. You'll have to check your local DoCoMo shop in Japan to give this latest offering a test; there's no word yet on the unit becoming available outside Japan, though bloggers have pointed to an FCC application in the works.

More info: http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/product/foma/705i/nm705i/index.html (Japanese)