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Panasonic today introduced the X700 smartphone, its first handset to use the Symbian OS and the Series 60 Platform, an interface created by Nokia that sits on top of Symbian. It is also one of the first clamshell smartphones to offer a full color sub display and picture CLI (Call Line Identification).

According to the company, the smartphone integrates a VGA digital camera, photo light and 65,536 color TFT display. The company said the handset’s editing capabilities allow users to enhance the quality of these images. The X700 also offers video capture, download and playback.

With pre-loaded applications, you can use the tri-band GSM/GPRS X700 to view and edit native Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. The miniSD card provides additional memory to store these files and by using the miniSD adapter can link these to other Panasonic AV equipment. In addition, an imaging application enables users to edit photos taken with the handset’s camera. With the X700’s Java capability, the user can download further applications, polyphonic ring tones and games.

The X700 supports MMS, email and Bluetooth, allowing users to send photos and documents to a PC or MMS enabled phone. Its Bluetooth capability also allows wireless connectivity through a Bluetooth hands-free headset and when connecting remotely through a laptop. The X700 also features a speaker independent voice recognition system to ease the dialing of numbers from the phonebook and to control some of the functions in the phone, without having to train it first.

Like nearly all the other smartphones announed at the 3GSM World Congress this week, the X700 isn't expected to ship until later this year,