Fujitsu’s DoCoMo PRIME F-01A Hands-on, the Ultimate Japanese Mobile Phone

Published on November 19th,2008 at 2:58 PM
By >Daimaou - G.G-B

Fujitsu’s DoCoMo PRIME F-01A Hands-on, the Ultimate Japanese Mobile Phone

Category: Phones - Tags: Dcmx, Docomo, Ewallet, Fujitsu, Hsdpa, Ipx7, Ixp5, Mp4, Prime, Touchscreen, W-cdma, Waterpoof, Wvga

It’s been a long time since I’ve been impressed with a Japanese mobile phone, but today Fujitsu and DoCoMo succeed in doing just that with their Prime F-01A!

What’s so special about it? Although appearing like a typical Japanese clamshell (this design has really started to bore me), the Prime F-01A is loaded with stunning features like:
- A nice 3.5” Wide VGA touchscreen,
- A 5.2 Mipx Camera Module with AF and Face Detection,
- A nice VGA video mode at 30fps and recorded in MP4,
- Supports microSD cards up to 8GB
- DCMX eWallet
- IPX5 and IPX7 specification. (The phone can remain underwater at a depth of 1m for 30min.)
- Fingerprint reader
- W-CDMA with HSDPA and GSM.

With a nice GUI that suffers from very few slowdowns, the Prime F-01A is a real winner. If you live in Japan and need an all in one phone… you know what to get now!

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kenjisama

sliders are the new clamshells!
Ming

Hallo…just wanna ask. Is this mobile phone available outside Japan? Like, for use outside Japan, and all…thx in advance!
Virtua

Funny, the hinge bit looks like its from the new Fujitsu FMV Looks U50bn
http://soul-est.doc776.org Soul_Est

I wish I was living in Japan right now.
Sergey

I like this design, good phone to replace my old NEC N412i. Will it work in EU with a local SIM card? Is a web browser will be working or it designed to i-mode network only? Thanks!
Fred_Derf

“how much does it cost?”

At the moment, it fetches up to 700usd outside of Japan.
Fred_Derf

“Hallo…just wanna ask. Is this mobile phone available outside Japan? Like, for use outside Japan, and all…thx in advance!”

No this phone is not available outside of Japan. If you know anyone there, try to get them for help. Alternatively, there is always eBay. No, it is not meant to be used outside of Japan, but if you do use it outside of Japan, many functions will be limited.
Fred_Derf

“I like this design, good phone to replace my old NEC N412i. Will it work in EU with a local SIM card? Is a web browser will be working or it designed to i-mode network only? Thanks!”

Nothing can work without a DoCoMo sim-card, unless you use a hypersim, and the most it can do is allow you to make calls and SMS messaging on a GSM network with your non-DoCoMo sim card. You can forget about MMS and the internet if you’re outside of Japan. Even if you have i-mode in your country (like Singapore’s network, Starhub’s i-mode), the internet will still not work.
fredd24

hi i just want to ask if possible that i csan buy only the charger?how much it cost?

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