The AU KDDI Design Project earlier on showed the concept phone INFOBAR2 and most people doubt that it would actually be a functional phone but AU has confirmed that they will be showing the working model of INFOBAR2 in November. The extremely curved body proofs to be somewhat difficult to commercialize. The original INFOBAR was launched in 2003 and designed by Naoto Fukasawa and manufactured by Sanyo.

Specs for the INFOBAR2 phone are it will use a 2.6 inch 240×400 OLED screen, a one-seg DMB tuner, 1.97 megapixel auto-docus camera, browse full HTML websites on the CDMA EV-DO network and measures 47×138x15.5mm (104g). No news on pricing so far.

Check out 5 more pics of the INFOBAR2 phone after the jump.

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Sprint and Sanyo teamed up together to launch the new Katana DLX (shown above) to complement along with its predecessor Katana II (after the jump). The newer edition allows easy access to Sprint exclusive multimedia content including the Sprint Music Store. In addition to that it allows 21MB more capacity than the former Katana. The tech specifications are a 1.3 megapixel camera, a microSD memory card slot up to 4GB in size, EV-DO connectivity, MP3 playback, speakerphone functionality and PIM applications. The Katana DLX is available in three different colors, Platinum Ice, Pink Satin and Champagne while Katana II is available in Cosmic Black, Pink Fascination and Midnight Steel. Check out 1 pic of Katana II after the jump.

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