Panasonic announced in Europe its newest ELUGA waterproof smartphone, which is the company’s first smartphone for Europe. With a ultra slim design and ergonomic curved-edge shape, the Android device is IP57 certified that it is able to immersed into water at a depth of up to 1.5 meters for 30 minutes and is dustproof. It is powered by a dual-core TI 1GHz processor with 1GB of RAM and runs Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread with future upgrade to Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich. The ELUGA sports a 4.3-inch capacitive 960×540 OLED touchscreen and with super-thin frame, the phone offers a

  Following the DEFY and DEFY+, Motorola adds to the DEFY line the new DEFY MINI, a low-end water-resistant, dustproof Android smartphone for active users. The  Android 2.3 phone has a 3.2-inch 480×320 touchscreen with scratch resistant Corning Gorilla Glass. The DEFY MINI is powered by a 600MHz processor with 512MB RAM and 512MB ROM. It features a 3.2 Megapixel camera with flash, a VGA front-facing camera, GPS, Bluetooth 2.1 and WiFi 802.11b/g/n connectivity with support for WiFi Direct. DLNA and FM radio are also available. The phone works on dual-band HSPA and quad-band

NTT DoCoMo is going to release in June/July in Japan its MEDIAS WP N-06C super slim waterproof Android smartphone. At its thinnest part, the N-06C is just 7.9mm thick (9.7mm thick around the camera). It packs a 4-inch 480×854 touchscreen LCD display, a 5 Megapixel auto focus camera with face detection, built-in 1Seg mobile TV tuner, integrated GPS, Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity. The NEC MEDIAS WP N-06C is powered by Qualcomm’s MSM8255 1GHz processor with 512MB of RAM. It support GSM and WCDMA 3G/HSPA networks. Running Android 2.3 OS, the phone includes docomo’s Palette