Vodafone and Toshiba today announced a strategic partnership to market a range of exclusive 3G handsets in Europe, Australia, Japan and New Zealand. Building on their partnership in Japan, where Toshiba is one of the leading suppliers of handsets to Vodafone KK, this expanded relationship marks Toshiba’s entrance into the European mobile phone market.

The companies will work together to market a range of exclusive 3G handsets starting in the second quarter of 2005. The first handset to be made available under the new relationship is the Vodafone TS 921, a high tier multi-functional, tri-band device complete with a 1.9 Megapixel camera with auto focus.

Key features:

• 1.92 Megapixel camera, with auto focus
• 2.4 inch display
• Triband 900, 1800, 1900
• Video output
• High-quality Mpeg4 format
• SDTM expandable memory card
• 360 hrs standby
• 320 min talktime