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DoCoMo phone has surround sound, split screens

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. said that the mova N505i handset from NEC Corp. it plans to begin marketing July 4 will offer a dual-speaker system with surround-sound capability, a screen-splitting feature that will allow users to type a reply while viewing a received message, and a 320,000-pixel camera that works like a scanner for reading and storing URLs, mailing addresses and telephone numbers from printed materials.

The handset will also include 64-polyphonic ringing melodies, a 2.4-inch color screen and will accept external memory cards.

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