Fujitsu and KDDI (Japan’s second largest wireless operator) have just confirmed that they will launch the world’s first phone running Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) sometime in September.
Here’s what we know about the device:
- 3.7? LCD Display
- 1 Ghz Qualcomm MSM8655 CPU
- Waterproof
- 13.2 Megapixel Camera
- Will come in multiple colors. Bright yellow and pink versions of the handset have already been caught in leaks. (Update: Looks like it’ll come in black, too.)
- 32GB of internal memory
Mango support the following features:
- Multitasking support: Quick app switching, with certain apps (music, GPS) allowed to run in the background
- Internet Explorer 9 with HTML 5 support
- Turn-by-turn, Voice Guided Navigation
- Social Networking:Integrated Twitter support, plus the addition of Facebook check-ins.
- Dynamic Live Tiles: Tiles for third-party apps on the homescreen can show live updated information
- Unified Threaded Messages: Support for text/facebook chat/Windows Live Messenger all pulled into one conversation window
- Unified Inbox: Shows all of your email inboxes in one view, with threaded e-mail support
- Custom Groups: You can bundle contacts into “group” tiles on the homescreen for quick access to just that group’s status updates, or to quickly text the entire group at once
- Voice-to-text text messaging
- Bing Stuff: Music Search (think Shazam), Vision (scan a book cover or barcode to search for that product)
