Sunday May 27, 2012

Looking smart

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AFP PHOTO/TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA

Models show off Windows Phone IS12T smartphones in Tokyo on Wednesday. KDDI will put the Fujitsu Toshiba Mobile Communications-made phones with Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.5 operating system onto the Japanese market from September this year. See related story here

  • -5

    JeffLee

    Windows + Fujitsu -- a match made in heaven.

  • -4

    electric2004

    Then crash landing back to earth.

  • -4

    johninnaha

    RIP Microsoft

  • -1

    bass4funk

    Gotta give them credit for trying though...lol

  • -1

    gogogo

    I dunno.... I saw a windows 7 phone in the store the other day, it ran in full HD and was a real PC with an SSD drive in it the size of a regular phone. The guy couldn't tell me how long the battery last so I skipped buying it. Not sure about these phones.

  • -3

    Elbuda Mexicano

    When will these so called smartphones come with a SMART BATTERY?? Iphones etc..have really really shitty batteries! Great in case of an emergency right? Oh! Now I can not call the cops nor the fire department on my new shiny smart phone because the battery only lasts a few minutes if I actually use ANY OF THE COOL APPLICATIONS! OMG!!

  • -2

    johninnaha

    I hear they're going to go one up on the iPhone with a function sure to appeal to businesses:

    FAX

  • 0

    pawatan

    Windows + Fujitsu -- a match made in heaven.

    Hah! Maybe Android + Fujitsu. I had a windows phone before and it was just awful.

  • -1

    anglootaku

    Dasai Iphones are much better

  • -1

    lalasalama

    don't really like the design...

  • 0

    cactusJack

    Blue screen of death? There's now a phone for that.

  • 0

    ifd66

    catch name - The I-S-1-2-T As already commented - Microsoft RIP

  • -1

    Disillusioned

    Regardless of your choice of 'smart' phones, they are only as 'smart' as the person using them.

  • -1

    some14some

    Looking smart?

  • 0

    SquidBert

    Windows Phone 7(.5) looks anything but smart. In fact that was the ugliest POC I have seen in a long time

  • 0

    my2sense

    You mean "Teenage Girls on school holidays in the AKB obsessed culture show off Windows Phone IS12T smartphones in Tokyo on Wednesday."

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    bass4funk

    Regardless of your choice of 'smart' phones, they are only as 'smart' as the person using them.

    I can assure you that from the way I observe people using these phones, they should call them "clueless phones" which would be more appropriate to call the devices and or the people using them.

  • 0

    adhocmanager

    I think they are forced to smile in this photo. ask these girls which phone they use and they might both answer iPhone.

  • 0

    getsy

    I had a window PC friend that had a Iphone.. got it stolen so he thought he would try a Windoze 7 phone to match his wonderful virus filled PC... Well guess what he gave the Windoze 7 phone away to his Daughter and bought an Iphone again... Said it was useless compared to the Iphone. Go Apple!!!! I agree....

  • 0

    oberst

    nice dimples...................

  • 0

    sunhawk

    @adhocmanager, actually iphone usage in japan is not that high. they are more likely to use something resembling a conventional cell phone.

  • 0

    pawatan

    actually iphone usage in japan is not that high

    It's the best selling smartphone in Japan but people are more likely to use non-smartphones...

  • 0

    johninnaha

    I was kidding about FAX. No Windows phone has that function - yet.

    But once they work out the wrinkles, it's going to be a world beater!

    It does have TILES, though. Eat your heart out iPhone!

    And it has ZUNE built in. Take that, iTunes!

    And, apparently it can PLAY GAMES! (Both of them - Minesweeper AND Solitaire!)

    But, we'll have to wait a while. Apparently it's not out until September!

    And, as Microsoft is hammering together the OS, that probably means September 2012.

  • 0

    TakahiroDomingo

    they look good! really really great! the girls, of course.

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