NEC Corp, in an interview with Nikkei BP's Beijing Bureau, has revealed the details of its credit card-sized, ultra-small mobile phone now being developed.

Initially, the prototype of this small mobile phone, the "N900," was introduced on Oct 28, 2003 in an announcement in Shanghai of new products for the Chinese market.

The "N900" will measure 85mm in width, 54mm in depth, 8.6mm in thickness and weigh 70g. It was to be 10mm thick when unveiled at the end of October, but the company has managed to make it thinner.

Fu Honglin of Assistant Manager, Product Planning at the China Mobile Terminal Development Center of NEC (China) who served in the development of the product said that the development team challenged themselves to see how thin they could make it structurally while limiting it to be no larger than the size of a credit card. Its miniaturization is based on a folding type "N700" mobile phone for the GSM market.

Having been made this thin, the user can't speak to the other party by holding it by the ear as in using an ordinary mobile phone. In order to have a telephone conversation on the N900, the user will have to use an attached earphone. She said that since Chinese users are accustomed to using earphones, there should not be any problems.

It has a 1.8-in. color TFT-LCD (128 x 160 dots). It contains a 300,000-pixel digital camera and a light on the reverse side.

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Source: MPx200.org