Cell Phones, Toshiba, Fujitsu
April 2, 2012: a great day to officially wash your hands of an unprofitable business. On the heels of Philips stuffing its TV biz into a joint venture, Fujitsu announced it has bought out Toshiba's stake in Fujitsu Toshiba Mobile Communications (just like we knew it would). Fujitsu already had a controlling...

Cell Phones, Operating Systems, Fujitsu, Google, Android 4.0
Fujitsu distributed a flyer at CES teasing a quad-core Tegra 3 Android phone with a 12-GPU graphics accellerator running Ice Cream Sandwich. Quad-core tablets are only just starting to show up, so having that kind of power in a phone should make for some decreased battery life because there's less room...

Cell Phones, Fujitsu
It is now just after midnight in Tokyo, and that means the official release date of the first new Windows Phone 7.5 Mango handset has come. The Fujitsu IS12T has now officially hit the market (although I suspect most stores selling the handset are now quite closed).



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Cell Phones, Fujitsu
Nanapho reports that rumours are building for an August 25 release of the Fujitsu IS12T, making it likely the first Windows Phone 7.5 handset released anywhere in the world.

Cell Phones, Operating Systems, Samsung, Microsoft, Acer, Fujitsu, ZTE, Windows Phone 7, Galaxy S II
Microsoft's WPC 2011 conference which we reported from yesterday is in full swing, and special time was dedicated to Windows Phone, with Redmond showing off not one or two, but four new WP handsets. While it didn't specify many details about the phones themselves, Microsoft reiterated that we will have...

Cell Phones, Fujitsu
Take this with a grain of salt: Japanese tech blog Juggly is reporting [JP] that Fujitsu is working on a cell phone with both the Symbian and Windows 7 OS (not Windows Phone) on board.

Cell Phones, Fujitsu
It hasn't been too long ago when we reported that Sprint had introduced the Kyocera Echo, a dual-screen Android phone. And while the reception was decidedly cool, it appears that another manufacturer ...

Cell Phones, Fujitsu
Fujitsu did not have a huge booth but make sure that each millimeter square meter counted, and introduces 2 very interested Tablet Prototype (model 1, Model 2)build for Windows 7 and that, maybe, just...

Cell Phones, Fujitsu
Back at Mobile World Congress in February, the mobile UI gurus at TAT showed off their interpretation of a dual-screen phone interface using TI's powerhouse OMAP4 testbed. Seemed a little pie-in-the-...

Cell Phones, Fujitsu
And we have yet another cell phone maker joining the Android bandwagon. Various Japanese media, for example Sankei Digital [JP], are reporting that ...

Cell Phones, Toshiba, Fujitsu
Merger mania in the Japanese smartphone market, as Toshiba and Fujitsu have decided to combine their mobile operations, creating what will be the seco

Cell Phones, Toshiba, Fujitsu
The domestic Japanese phone market has been in a state of contraction for some time, most notably evidenced by Mitsubishi's decision to exit the game