All you need to know about Fujitsu - Toshiba 's first Windows Phone Mango device IS12T

Futijsu - Toshiba in a press conference in Tokyo early today announced their first Windows Phone powered smartphone running Mango (first officially unveiled Mango device) called IS12T exclusively available on Japanese carrier KDDI. A bit awkward by all standards and most probably  "IS12T" will probably be the final product name when it launches later in September this year. PR, specs and video walkthrough after the break. This doesn't come as a surprise, fyi. We reported about this joint launch exclusively with KDDI some time back. 

notice the gray theme? It currently isn't available in mango b2 which was released to developers early this month

Engadget got their hands on IS12T at the conference, check em out.

Here's the PR from Microsoft Japan Press Pass website:

Corporation KDDI (Headquarters: Tokyo, President: Takashi Tanaka) and Okinawa Cellular Telephone Company (NASDAQ: Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, President: Hiroshi Kitagawa) since early September 2011, Microsoft stock in Japan company (headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo, President & CEO Yasuyuki Higuchi, following Microsoft) OS for smartphones offered by "Windows Phone 7.5" with, Fujitsu Toshiba Mobile Communications Corporation (Headquarters: Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture, President President: Nobuo Otani), made of "Windows Phone IS12T" to the market.　"Windows Phone IS12T" is a smartphone with Windows Phone 7.5 against water and dust for the first time in Japan. Smartphone and usability in addition to the traditional light set apart, with a megapixel camera's highest 1320 smartphone, and also 32GB internal memory, and finished in a compact feel with rich specifications adopted. View and edit Microsoft Office documents and more, of course, can share data stored in the cloud service operated by Microsoft's Windows Live SkyDrive Free. In addition, the latest version of Internet Explorer browser and PC-rich applications (R) is an attractive smartphone with such expressive power of Internet technology 9.　Rates are available packet flat-rate plan for smartphones and traditional rate plan.　"Windows Phone IS12T" is, KDDI Designing Studio (Harajuku) au NAGOYA and (Nagoya) at, July 28, 2011 (Thursday) to start the display from.

Nanapho posted a list of companies alongside their applications that are planning to jump aboard the IS12T train. Read the list here.
Looks like most of the applications will  be exclusive to KDDI thus limited to IS12T.

Here's a walktrhough of a bunch of Mango features in action running on IS12T:



Complete specs of IS12T is as following:

Product Name: Windows (R) Phone IS12T
Manufacturer: Fujitsu Mobile Communications Toshiba Corporation
Processor: Qualcomm MSM8655 processor
Communication Systems: CDMA 1x EV-DO Rev.A (WIN HIGH SPEED)
Size: Approximately 59 (W) × 118 (H) × 10.6 (D) mm
Weight (with battery): Approximately 113g
Talk time: Approximately 400 minutes
Continuous Standby Time: Approximately 280 hours
Charging time: Approximately 160 minutes when AC, DC-Approximately 240 minutes
Color: Citrus, magenta, black
Display: TFT LCD  WVGA (800 × 480) (disappointing!)
Screen size: Approximately 3.7 inches
External memory - 32 GB
Camera 13.2 million pixels effective pixels
Wireless LAN IEEE802.11b/g/n
Bluetooth (R) 2.1 + EDR

Techcrunch reports that Futijsu Toshiba IS12T is expected to hit Japanese shores in September. Mango hit RTM few hours back, coincidence? Tell us what you think of the device.

By Rahul Mathur