Softbank Mobile has released the PHOTOS 920SC slider phone that features two cameras - a 5-megapixel camera for picture taking and a 3-megapixel one for video conference. It further takes a stamp on the camera-phone market by including a xenon flash, 3X optical zoom, Bluetooth, IrDA, GPS, face recognition and auto focus capabilities. This will give its contemporaries, a run for their money.

The camera is intuitive towards hand-shake and can prevent red eye pictures by correcting them. The 2.4 inches 240×320 display features 26 million colors. It takes in a microSD (maximum 2GB) card, and supports W-CDMA and GSM (900/1800/1900). It also has 3G high speed connectivity at 3.6Mbps make which loads 500 ten thousand pixel cameras on January 12th.

The phone measures at 52×101.5×18.9mm and weighs 129g, has a 340-hour battery and gives about approximately 200 minutes of talktime. The device will be out on the 12th of this month however, it will only be available in Japan.

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