Fujitsu IS12T Windows phone mango launched in Japan today (fast service)

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Last month, Fujitsu in Japan unveiled IS12T, declared the first cellphone running on Windows phone 7.5 aka mango. And the country's second largest mobile carrier (and exclusive supplier of phone) KDDI au, not losing a lot of time: IS12T became available today, and here (this is Fujitsu, official press release in English today).

As we reported earlier, mango tubes, comes with a 3.7 inch LCD 800 × 480 resolution, 13.2 MP CMOS camera, the body is water and shock proof 32 GB internal memory, support the microUSB port, IEEE 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi (do not bind), DLNA, GSM/CDMA, etc.

There are nine languages for user interface, and IS12T is available in three colors "Neon" (citrus fruits, black, purple).

I went to the store only a mobile phone in my area today, having a look at the phone, but unfortunately, I got a few pictures (see above) and play around with it for a few minutes before I had to leave (not video photo no).

My first impression was that the phone itself felt light and thin, but very cheap and plasticky (I couldn't give Xbox Live, Internet Explorer and other apps spin because Wi-Fi and 3 G have been turned off – within a few minutes, I played with it, the UI felt great).

Price-Wise IS12T is located at the upper end of the spectrum for mobile phones in Japan: storage (and all other retailers, for that matter) implements the phone up to $955 (but with steep discounts in certain circumstances). So if Fujitsu really starts selling mobile phone outside Japan (they have international plans), don't expect it will be a budget model.

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Ooma VOIP service is not running a nationwide

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Reports trickling in in our tipline, Ooma, popular VOIP service, is currently experiencing major networking problems. Currently, Ooma in phone service seems autonomous throughout the country and their Web site and support forums are sporadically if at all.

Some users (mainly in California) reported that their service is returned, but right now, it seems that the majority of subscribers are unable to make or receive phone calls. Other outages are similar in scale this one occurred in 2009, with the service, staying offline for about 6 hours.

Interested customers who tried to reach out to the Ooma in head office were a canned message that Office was closed, and was soon filled with a voice mailbox. Rumors began to swirl among those affected customers on DSL reports forums that Ooma is in the process of completing the work, but we can confirm that this is not the case.

A few calls to service the Ooma has a brief conversation with rep, who argues that they know the problem, and that the service will we restored within two hours. Apparently once restored service, Ooma hub in the homes of customers will begin to work again without input from the user. Affected customers should keep their eyes peeled for blue signal light on their sites. This schedule will be little comfort to those affected, some of which use the Ooma as their business phone service. Updates come blistering pace, so all you Ooma users should stay tuned.

Update # 1: Ooma status Twitter account acknowledges the problem, do not upgrade to ETA. Ooma Web site is still down.

Followooma_status @@ ooma_status
Ooma support backs our Internet affects a lot of customers. We are working to address this issue as soon as possible.

Update # 2: word on Ooma in Facebook page and on DSLReports is that slowly goes back online. Leave the search for the blue light on the hub.

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