While Panasonic has shut down it's U.S. mobile-phone operations, it is still very much an serious mobile phone manufacturer.
It recently released the X800, which is still the thinnest (17mm thick when folded) Symbian clamshell on the market.
A slew of innovations are set to be introduced in the new A210 handset early this year. Users will be able to change the color of their text message instead of being confined to black text, there is a new built in emoticon feature, and the colored lights displayed upon SMS reception will change according to the emoticon used.
This is reminiscent of the differences between text and html-formatted e-mail, but unlike the latter, this is unlikely to end up being too irritating.
It also sounds awfully cute; lets hope that it becomes a standard. (and that it actually is cute.)
[via textually]
