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AU by KDDI Casio CA001
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: A (Rare)
👁 Evaluation in my collection: Good – 9/10
⏱ Life timer: N/A | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2009 | 💰 Release Price: N/A
📊 Units Sold: ~200k
📰 Why this phone matters: equipped with sound and music apps made by Yamaha and a touchscreen📝 Reviews when released: Blog of Mobile 🔗
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AU by KDDI Infobar
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: A (Rare)
👁 Evaluation in my collection: Great – 9.5/10
⏱ Life timer: N/A | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2003 | 💰 Release Price: n/a
📊 Units Sold: ~300k
📰 Why this phone matters: INFOBAR is the first terminal of the au design project . The base model is Sanyo Multimedia Tottori’s A5306ST , and there is almost no difference in performance except for the presence or absence of a sub-display (A5306ST has it, but INFOBAR does not). The prototype model “info.bar”, which was exhibited as a reference at the “Business Show 2002 TOKYO” held from May 17th to 19th, 2002 , is the basis of the design. Designed by product designer Naoto Fukasawa . The software also has a unified feel, with the image of a terminal design.The housing is a straight type made of magnesium . External memory is not supported. The camera is a 310,000 pixel CCD . There are three color variations: NISHIKIGOI (red and beige. Light blue on the button), ICHIMATSU (black and white), and BUILDING (indigo and silver). From April 2004 , ANNIN (white) was released as a new color. This color naming uses the name that engineers naturally started to call at the time of development. The response of INFOBAR was very large, and many stores were sold out after the release date.
This model is the last model made by Tottori Sanyo Electric, and the symbol at the end of the model number is “ST”. Subsequent terminals made by Tottori Sanyo Electric are the same as the terminals made by Sanyo Electric in Osaka, and the end of the model number. The symbol of is “SA”.
Selected for the 2003 Good Design Award , and received the “iF Product Design Award” from the German iF Design Award in 2005 . In 2007, the same model was selected as a collection in the Museum of Modern Art, New York , USA , and in 2013, in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA .
📝 Reviews when released: K Tai 🔗
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AU by KDDI Infobar 2
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: A (Rare)
👁 Evaluation in my collection: New – 10/10
⏱ Life timer: N/A | 📦 Boxed: YES
📅 Release Year: 2007 | 💰 Release Price: n/a
📊 Units Sold: ~200k
📰 Why this phone matters: The INFOBAR 2, while inheriting the attractiveness and ease of use of the INFOBAR, has evolved into a shape like a square candy melting in the mouth, and features the latest capabilities such as One-Seg and Osaifu Keitai.
With a 2.6-inch, QVGA, organic EL display that provides bright, sharp pictures, as well as stereo speakers, the INFOBAR 2 also enables customers to fully enjoy services such as LISMO and One-Seg.Additionally, in the collaborative project “mobile fashion,” INFOBAR 2 goods will be produced through collaboration with famous brands. They will be available for sale via the mobile fashion site in au’s Internet service, EZ web
📝 Reviews when released: Wired 🔗
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AU by KDDI Infobar A01
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: A (Rare)
👁 Evaluation in my collection: New – 10/10
⏱ Life timer: N/A | 📦 Boxed: YES
📅 Release Year: 2011 | 💰 Release Price: N/A
📊 Units Sold: ~250k
📰 Why this phone matters: “INFOBAR A01” is a smartphone which adopts unique tile-style key succeeded from the first generation “INFOBAR” released in 2003, and multi-colors of “NISHIKIGOI” and other patterns. Despite of its small size, it features useful functions such as Osaifu-Keitai, infrared light communication and one-seg. In addition to the exterior, it features “iida UI”, a user interface with high operability and function to propose easy usage and joy of usage.Ten peripheral items specialized for “INFOBAR A01” and an AC adapter for smartphones named “JUPITRIS” will be released. Eight items by “iida and NAVA”, a brand born from collaboration with Italian stationary brand NAVA and displayed at Milano Salone 2011, will also be released.
📝 Reviews when released: KDDI 🔗
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AU by KDDI Infobar C01
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: A (Rare)
👁 Evaluation in my collection: As New – 9.7/10
⏱ Life timer: N/A | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2012 | 💰 Release Price: N/A
📊 Units Sold: ~180k
📰 Why this phone matters: Japan’s mobile landscape is currently in the midst of an Android revolution, and today KDDI au (the country’s second biggest carrier) announced another 5 smartphones with that OS on board for the local market. The most interesting model in the new line-up is the so-called INFOBAR C01 , a candy bar coming with a heavily customized UI (based on Android 2.3).KDDI au introduced a similar model back in May last year, the INFOBAR A01 (both handsets are part of KDDI’s designer sub-brand iida).
📝 Reviews when released: TechRunch 🔗
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AU IIDA TOSHIBA TSX05 LIGHT POOL
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: S (Ultra Rare)
⭐ WOW Factor: Beautiful design that looks like an architectural frame and window by product designer Hironao Tsuboi
👁 Evaluation in my collection: Great – 9.5/10
⏱ Life timer: N/A | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2010 | 💰 Release Price: N/A
📊 Units Sold: ~50k
📰 Why this phone matters: Beautiful design that looks like an architectural frame and window by product designer Hironao Tsuboi
The aim was one “landscape”. Time, light, sound, smell and sign … The design targets everyday emotions and scenes themselves, and acts beautifully on human emotions and environment as phenomena and “states” in the same way as “sunset” and “fog”. I aimed to be a mobile phone.
“LIGHT POOL” wears a unique form composed of truss-like structures and surfaces. This new composition, which looks like an architectural frame and window, gives a beautiful rhythmic feeling and visual comfort that has never been seen in mobile phones, and looks like an organic product with a variety of expressions. It came true.LIGHT & SOUND that creates a beautiful scene
Twenty-two high-brightness LEDs are placed in the triangular window that covers the surface, creating a beautiful scene while blending with the rhythm of music. The production and direction of light and music was done by Masakatsu Takagi, a videographer and musician.“LIGHT POOL” beautifully wraps the space with about 100 patterns of light variations.
“Long play mode” that produces light and sound that can be enjoyed with one button
We have prepared 10 patterns with various themes such as “Spring”, and “Circle” .
When receiving an incoming call, you can select from 60 types of light patterns.
A number is created with light at 0 minutes every hour to inform you of the time (time signal mode).
In addition, light appears randomly when opening and closing a mobile phone. Even during a call, it will be colored with light.📝 Reviews when released: KDDI 🔗
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AU IIDA TOSHIBA TSX06 X Rays
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: S (Ultra Rare)
👁 Evaluation in my collection: Good – 9/10
⏱ Life timer: N/A | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2010 | 💰 Release Price: N/A
📊 Units Sold: ~40k
📰 Why this phone matters: This is the 8th edition of the iida brand, which has been redesigned and redeveloped based on the existing REGZA Phone T004 (TS004) ( it will be the base model of the T008 released later ).
A foldable voice terminal featuring a transparent housing . Tokujin Yoshioka is in charge of the design . However, unlike the T004, the waterproof function has been forgotten in terms of technology and is not installed in this model.
The body of this machine uses the new material “Taflon Neo Series” jointly developed by a material maker and a glass maker, and by mixing glass fiber and polycarbonate , we succeeded in achieving both transparency and luxury. did. The back is equipped with a 7 x 102 dot matrix LED sub-display developed for this unit, and it is possible to notify the time, incoming call, mail reception, etc. in characters.
This unit is the first existing au terminal to support WIN HIGH SPEED (CDMA2000 1xEV-DO MC-Rev.A (EV-DO MC)) with downlink 9.2 Mbps / uplink 5.5 Mbps data communication. However, it does not support wireless LAN ( Wi-Fi WIN and Wi-Fi WIN card).📝 Reviews when released: Blog of Mobile 🔗
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AU Sharp E06SH
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: A (Rare)
👁 Evaluation in my collection: BNIB – 10/10
⏱ Life timer: 0m | 📦 Boxed: YES
📅 Release Year: 2009 | 💰 Release Price: N/A
📊 Units Sold: ~150k
📰 Why this phone matters: KDDI au announced the new Sharp E05SH and E06SH rugged mobile phones for business users. Both phones are IPX5/IPX7 certified for waterproof. They both feature a 2.6-inch 240×400 ASV LCD display, a 2 Megapixel camera, GPS support and WiFi. They support SDIO.Sharp’s E06SH has additional RFID scanner.1
📝 Reviews when released: Sharp Japan 🔗
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Ericsson ER207 (NTT DoCoMo): Ultra-Rare Japan-Only Release
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: S (Ultra Rare)
⭐ WOW Factor: The Ericsson ER207 is not just rare – it’s a portal into a hidden chapter of mobile history.
👁 Evaluation in my collection: Good – 9/10
⏱ Life timer: N/A | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 1999 | 💰 Release Price: 200 €
📊 Units Sold: ~60k
📰 Why this phone matters: A remarkable and extremely rare Japan-exclusive Ericsson ER207, produced in August 1999 for NTT DoCoMo’s PDC network. This model was never sold internationally and represents Ericsson’s transitional era when the company tailored unique hardware specifically for the Japanese market – often completely different from their global product line.The ER207 embodies classic late-90s Japanese mobile design: compact, angular, antenna-based and featuring the distinctive “DIGITAL” logo across the display window. Unlike mainstream Ericsson models of the same era, the ER207 employed Japan’s proprietary PDC 800/1500 MHz system, resulting in a device architecture not compatible with GSM and making it fundamentally different from eur;opean Ericsson phones.
Unit is accompanied by original accessories, including the Japan-style hand strap, a collectible piece of its own that reflects the cultural design philosophy of late-90s Japanese phones, where personalization and wearable portability were key features.
This makes the device not just rare – but historically significant as part of the very limited Ericsson-DoCoMo collaboration portfolio.📝 Reviews when released: Ericssoners 🔗
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Ericsson ER209i (NTT DoCoMo): Ultra-Rare Japan-Only Release
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: S (Ultra Rare)
⭐ WOW Factor: The first i-mode enabled mobile phone for the PDC standard
👁 Evaluation in my collection: Great – 9.5/10
⏱ Life timer: N/A | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2000 | 💰 Release Price: N/A
📊 Units Sold: ~50k
📰 Why this phone matters: DoCoMo by Ericsson ER209i’ (hereafter ER209i) is Ericsson’s first i-mode enabled mobile phone for the PDC standard. In Japan, the growth of the mobile Internet market is very strong, and NTT-DoCoMo’s i-mode service contributes to this expansion. The number of subscribers who use the i-mode services is 15,227,000 as of November 26, 2000 (reference to data of NTT-DoCoMo).📝 Reviews when released: Ericssoners 🔗
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Fujitsu F505i
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: A (Rare)
⭐ WOW Factor: first mobile phone using fingerprint authentication technology
👁 Evaluation in my collection: Good – 9/10
⏱ Life timer: N/A | 📦 Boxed: NO
📅 Release Year: 2003 | 💰 Release Price: N/A
📊 Units Sold: ~350k
📰 Why this phone matters: It’s the year 2003 . In the Western world today, people know Fujitsu for air conditioners, laptops and other electronics, but not so much for mobile phones.As a matter of fact, Fujitsu has a long-standing history of producing quality mobile phones for the three major telecom networks of Japan – NTT Docomo, Softbank and ‘au by KDDI’.
Let’s start with the Fujitsu F505i. It is known to be the world’s first commercially available mobile phone with an integrated fingerprint scanner. Now, we know fingerprint scanners well because of iPhone, the Samsung Galaxy range and other Androids, but a decade before the iPhone 5S debuted and made Touch ID a success (and still 8 years before the Motorola Atrix), Fujitsu equipped its range of mobile terminals with biometric support of this kind.
Why have many people never heard of it then? Well, it’s complicated. Japan’s exclusive 2G network technology – Personal Digital Cellular (PDC) – was, well exactly that? Yes, exclusive to Japan. But things didn’t become much better once the globally standardised W-CDMA services launched, and Fujitsu remained loyal to its local networks. Perhaps that’s the reason their efforts to introduce biometric security were largely ignored in the GSM and CDMA worlds.
📝 Reviews when released: PcWorld 🔗
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Jphone J-PE02 by Pioneer: Early Touch Era Legend
Quick View💎 Rarity Index: S (Ultra Rare)
⭐ WOW Factor: J-PE02 is one of the earliest touch interaction phones ever sold commercially
👁 Evaluation in my collection: New – 10/10
⏱ Life timer: 0 | 📦 Boxed: YES
📅 Release Year: 1999 | 💰 Release Price: N/A
📊 Units Sold: ~60k
📰 Why this phone matters: The Pioneer J-PE02 is one of the most unusual and forward-thinking handsets ever released on the Japanese market. Built by Pioneer Corporation and sold under the J-Phone Group in November 1999, this device represents a rare moment in phone history when non-telecom consumer electronics giants dabbled in mobile innovation. The result was a handset decades ahead of its time.Unlike the compact keypad phones of its era, the J-PE02 centered around a large front display designed for touch-style navigation, making it one of the very earliest commercially sold phones to experiment with stylus and screen-based input. This concept predates mainstream touch devices by years and shows how aggressively the Japanese market was pushing the boundaries of mobile interaction.
The design reflects Pioneers background in multimedia and in-car navigation: a clean silver housing, oversized screen, minimalist buttons, and an interface tailored for J-Sky internet services, early emoji support, and primitive web portals. Internally, the phone uses Pioneers PI-A4 platform, with full Japanese radio and telecom certifications confirming the unit as a late 1999 retail model.
This unit is fully working and BNIB, an exceptionally rare combination given Japans strict device recycling laws that eliminated most PDC-era phones from circulation. Having both pristine physical condition and functional electronics makes it an extraordinary survivor of a forgotten technological branch. It also stands as one of the few Pioneer-branded phones ever made, giving it a unique place in mobile history.
With its experimental touch-driven design, oversized screen, and deep ties to the pre-camera-phone era of J-Phone, the Pioneer J-PE02 remains a landmark collectible. It captures a pivotal moment before Sharp released the worlds first camera phone, reflecting the bold innovation race that defined Japans mobile golden age.
📝 Reviews when released: N/A 💔