I was quite hard on DoCoMo yesterday for their uninspired designs, and here’s a nice refreshing line-up by Vodafone Japan with their 3 new phones.

The most interestingly designed device is the Toshiba 904T with its pivoting screen and use with or without the keyboard. It’s W-CDMA (UMTS) and GSM, it has a 2.4″ QVGA screen, a 3.1MP camera and a MiniSD slot. Compatibility with Vodafone Live!, Felica (electronic wallet), GPS, address book and CAST is guaranteed too.

The other excellent surprise is the arrival of the 804SS, a serious competitor of Motorola’s RAZR and some Samsungs. Korea will finally give Japan sexy and desireable phones! this phone is W-CDMA and GSM, it has a 2.3″ QVGA screen and a 1.3MP camera. It’s also word, excel and Powerpoint compatible and has 140MB of internal memory.

And finally we have NEC’s 804N, also a W-CDMA/GSM phone that has 450MB of internal memory and supports MicroSD cards too (up to 512MB). It has a 2.2″ QVGA screen, a 2MP camera, Bluetooth, it does TV too and is Vodafone Live! BB and CAST compatible.