With Mango just having hit release to manufacturing, it seems the first Windows Phone 7.5 device has already been unveiled.
It hasn't even been 24 hours since Microsoft's Terry Myerson announced that the company had just signed off on the release to manufacturing build of Windows Phone 7.5, aka Mango, but already we've seen our first Windows Phone 7.5 handset.
Unveiled by Fujitsu Toshiba and carrying the ever-so-catchy 'IS12T' moniker, the phone packs a 3.7-inch touchscreen display, a 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8655 SoC (clockspeed not known), a 13.2-megapixel camera, 32GB of internal storage, WiFi b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, a whopping 11 days of standby time, and is is waterproof and dust-resistant (IPX5 certified). The IS12T is a CDMA-based phone and should hit Japanese shelves in September.
For those of you that aren't up to speed on your Windows Phone 7 news, Mango was first revealed at Microsoft's MIX conference in April of this year and officially unveiled in May. The new build offers hardware-accelerated IE9 with HTML5; enhanced multitasking capabilities; Twitter in the People hub; better support for Office documents in SkyDrive; Threads, which brings together text, IM, and Facebook chat into one conversation; and Conversation View for email.
Phones running Mango are expected to hit in the fall, so keep your eyes peeled for more news regarding WP7.5 devices in the coming months.
I would assume 1GHz...
Currently, all WP7 handsets are upper mid end. Where are the lower mid-end and truly high-end models? Maybe MS should widen its list of supported SoC's to cover a larger part of the market.
I said it again and I'll keep saying it: the stellar quality of a Nokia handset + WP7 + OVI + a better SoC = the perfect handset (well, close to it).
I would assume 1GHz...
WP7 don't run on many different chipsets, so there isn't much different you can do with the hardware and those difficult to make high end or low end phones. This makes most WP7 phones to be quite similar in feature, it's only the look that may be a bit different, no matter if the phone is made by Nokia or LG or HTC or who ever.
One of the features that seems to missing from the list is the simplicity for app developers to send loads of advertisements to your phone and you will have to pay for it too (unless you have free data traffic on your subscription)
It may not run at that speed. Its very common for phone manufacturers to down clock processors to increase battery life. Apple has done it with their iPhones.
Does anyone proof read anymore?
This isn't listed in mango as WP7 already has this ability (as do iOS and Android).
MS define MINIMUM specs (and rightly so, just look at some of the cruddy low end android based phones). Its up to the phone makers whether they want to exceed those specs and make a high level phone. I'm not sure I'd want to see a low end WP7 phone, just imagine WP7 running on a 300Mhz processor with 128Mb of RAM like a lot of the knock off chinese android handsets. Ewwww.
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