Panasonic’s new Eluga smartphone: pretty phone, ugly name

We knew it was coming to that broad area we like to call Europe sometime soon, and now Panasonic’s sharing the details on its Android-based return. Details about the 3.6 ounce (103 gram) device include that it’s packing a 4.3-inch qHD (960 x 540) screen that’s wrapped in a dust and water-proof shell. It’ll also be able to throw audio, video and web content to HDTVs of the same branding. Of course, a device like this deserves an equally enticing name, so you’ll be delighted to hear that the handset’s going to be called, oh, really? Eluga? Wow.

However, that’s not where the story ends, because we also received details about a phone that’s just arrived on Japan’s NTT DoCoMo. The Next Series P-04D is a “deep purple” (hush, now) handset that measures and weighs the same, has a 4.3-inch qHD OLED display, is running a 1.0GHz dual-core OMAP 4430 CPU and was also manufactured by Panasonic. We might not be so bold as to suggest both handsets are the same, but we might think about importing the P-04D just so we never have to say Elugaout loud.

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