TOKYO-Toshiba, via its local joint venture business in China, will launch a mobile video messaging handset in China in early March, Toshiba announced Thursday. The T618X handset will let users take both still pictures and up to 15 seconds of video with a built-in CCD camera and send and receive an e-mail carrying the still or video data.
Nanjing Postel Wong Zhi Telecommunications, a joint venture between Toshiba, Nanjing Postel Telecommunications and Hong Kong’s Wong’s Industrial, will jointly provide the handset for the CDMA 1x service provided by China Unicom. The price for the handset is set to be under 6,000 Chinese yuan (US$725).
The joint venture is targeting to sell 500,000 units per year. Toshiba has been providing next-generation mobile handsets in China since last year.
