Tokyo residents could have a try with Toshiba IS12T already?

Just saw Windows Phone Japan posting on Facebook :

Which means "From today on, real units of IS12T will be shown at KDDI Designing Studio. I'm coming near you!"

KDDI Designing Studio is located in Tokyo. So if you are lucky enough to be in Tokyo right now, you can (supposedly) just drop by and have a real feel of the waterproof beauty.

If you did try the device, please don't hesitate to share with us in the comment your thought on it.

Here is a map if you wonder how to get to the studio. Please know that I have zero knowledge about Tokyo streets, and won't take responsibility for any people getting lost. I'd say take your trusted GPS, and ask local dudes often.

Good luck.

By Chassit

ZTE Windows Phone Spotted

Well, I'm getting tired of this. Actually I'm not. By 'it' I'm referring to the leak of another Windows Phone handset. This time it's ZTE.


A picture of their latest handset has been found on the weibo account of the General Manager of Mobile Communications, ZTE. The source is as legitimate as a source can be.

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Mango season in Asia


A few differences are there between this image and the one displayed at the WorldWide Partners Conference a few weeks ago. The handset has received a coat of paint, this time white. The Windows Phone logo in the front has been replaced by a ZTE logo and a proximity sensor has been spotted beside it. It's too small to be a secondary camera which is expected to be a  requirement for future Windows Phone handsets.

Not much else is known. This also appears to be a Japan headed handset. The weibo account has another picture which sort of conforms that the photo above wasn't of a  dummy's. I don't know Japanese but I expect it to be the calendar application or possibly ZTE's customization to Windows Phone.






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By Sameer

Japan Getting Toshiba-Fujitsu's First Mango Device In August

Nikkei, a Japanese news agency is reporting that Fujitsu-Toshiba will be launching their first Windows Phone Mango device sometime in August. The device, IS12T (Toshiba-Fujitsu TSI12), will be released via the KDDI network.
The mobile was also leaked in early March via Newstrider, it was said that it would feature a Qualcomm MSM8655 chipset and come with Windows Phone 7 and had passes FCC and Bluetooth clearance.

KDDI (au) will be releasing a new product based on Microsoft Corp. (MS) new smartphone OS “Windows Phone 7” towards the end of August. Windows Phone 7 is the first full-fledged smartphone OS from Microsoft, and the product would be the first of KDDI in Japan. Microsoft will provide free services such as cloud data storage, aiming to catch up with Google smartphone OS to the Japanese market.
New models of KDDI "IS12T" is manufactured by Fujitsu Toshiba Mobile Communications. Waterproof with a 3.7-inch LCD screen, the price is expected to be around 30000-40000 JPY (USD $380 – $505). The phone will be jointly announced with KDDI within this month.

The August release is definitely surprising but the handset is only releasing in Japanese markets for now, there us no word to indicate its launch elsewhere.

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By Akshay Bakshi