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Even in the spring we spent a couple of posts covering Medias (C) N-04 of NEC Casio Mobile Android phone company calls "the slimmest Smartphone". While only 7.7 mm thin, it surpasses the Galaxy S II and 105 g, it is very easy, too.
NEC Casio was announced in February this year, the tube was selling well when it hit the market in Japan a few weeks later (today 500000 units were sold).
And according to Japan's largest business daily Nikkei, the company is ready to involve the media in the United States now, somehow step announced last year already (NEC Casio Mobile was established in 2009, after NEC, Casio and Hitachi have merged their mobile phone operation).
Details are lacking at the moment, but it looks like Americans will have a modified version of the phone. In Japan, NEC Casio with N-06 C [JP] this summer, model, which is a bit thicker (7.9 mm), but water-proof.
Japanese model:
In the United States, the Nikkei said Medias are likely to be available via Verizon (Casio partner in the past) and other carriers. NEC Casio aims to double mobile phone shipments outside of Japan prior to 1.8 million in fiscal 2012.
To recap, the media N-04 C offers a 4-inch touchscreen LCD display with 480 x 854 resolution, Android 2.3, 5.1 MP CMOS camera, microSDHC card slot, Wi-Fi, etc. Expected digital TV tuner, function e wallet and infrared port to get axed in the United States version, however.
