World’s First Mango Smartphone Coming In September

Fujitsu and KDDI have confirmed the launch of the world’s first Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) smartphone in September. Not much is known about it yet, but seems like the first Mango-based smartphone will be the Toshiba Fujitsu IS12T.

So the world’s first WP7.5 smartphone will be manufactured by Toshiba and Fujitsu… I was a bit surprised when I found this out, to tell the truth. I wonder what giant manufacturers like HTC, Nokia and Samsung think about it…

Below you can see the specs that become known from Tokyo Press.

• 3.7-inch LCD Display
• 1Ghz 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

Windows Phone 7.5 Mango is the first major update of the platform and people say it’s going to be even better than the most popular Android and iOS.

Here is quick recap of Mango:

• 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)

I hope many other Windows Phone Mango smartphones will appear after the Toshiba Fujitsu IS12T.