Update (2003-06-16): ZDNet Mobile Japan writes about the new J-SH53. See the image samples below.

Via Melody:
May 23, 2003
Mega-Pixel
A image taken with a mega-pixel cell-phone digital camera recently released.
http://www.zdnet.co.jp/mobile/0305/22/l_maga1.jpg

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Megapixel camera phone to go on sale

Japan's J-Phone says that the J-SH53 by Sharp, which comes with a built-in CCD mobile camera capable of photographing 1 million effective pixels, will be available in stores from May 22nd, making it the world's first true megapixel-class mobile handset to be commercially available.

It isn't available yet at the J-Phone Online Shop though. Also, I only did find announcements for it so far on the Sharp as well as on the J-Phone site.

Anyway, more on the characteristics of the J-SH53 in english here.

For a funky japanese demo click this or go to the J-SH53 subsite for an overview.

"The J-SH53 may not be in the average tokyoites price range but in the end you get what you pay for (20,000yen - 30,000yen.)", according to x.

This is approximatively between 150 and 220 Euro, or 220 and 330 Swiss Francs. Which looks rather cheap to me.

Via Emily