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Got my wife one of those, on the second day it went on sale ;)

Some pics:

Packaging is pretty luxurious and nice. Unlike usual softbank stuff. Disney mobile model number is DM001SH.

 
Compared to my Sharp 910sh

User interface design is all about Disney characters. Very pretty animcated Flashes, very cute emoticons, about a dozen of Disney ringtones. Everything Disney. Pretty cute, I must say.

It even has a so-called OneSeg digital TV tuner, with antenna very smartly built into the phone case so I haven't even noticed it is there, initially.

Pretty slim. Slimmer than 705sh but a few millis.

Overall, it's a pretty good phone. Specs are in line with 7xx, 8xx series (so no VGA display for ya, sorry).

However, there are some things about it which I don't like.

Firstly, the built-in camera is, though decent, is not very good. Have a look at this pic (quality will improve with proper lighting, of course):

Here's a shot with my 910sh for comparison (that is if you can even start to compary CCD and CMOS based cameras, that is)

Also, the phone comes without built-in in-camera for TV calls.. Though I can't say I really miss this feature alot. Tried it a couple of times, and well.. it just didn't stick (and prices are pretty high for TV calls)

UI speed is very good, and actually beats my 910sh by a measurable margin (Flash stuff, menu response, HTML email composition, etc).

And as I said, its all about Disney stuff, and this part of the handset is very thought out. I think this model should be pretty popular here in Japan (and mostly in Japan I guess, because the model is marked is Japan use only, and of course 3G only, no GSM)

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