Well we're finally heading into the end of the year and the three main Japanese keitai carriers are preparing to announce their handset lineup for the holiday season. We've seen leaked pics of a few DoCoMo handsets here and there, but all will be revealed next week, at least in both au and DoCoMo's case. Announcement dates are:
Oct 16th - au (KDDI)
Oct 17th - DoCoMo
Oct 22nd - Softbank
The three dates were floated by an anonymous source yesterday, but after KDDI today confirmed the same date for its handset announcement I'd say the other two are true as well.