Microsoft Showcases Japanese Windows Phone Mango Apps

July 25, 2011 | By Pradeep

As Windows Phone Mango release gets nearing, Microsoft Japan detailed some of the new apps coming to Windows Phone Mango in Japan.

1) Mixi- A popular social networking site in Japan gets an application in Windows Phone platform. Mixi is the most popular social networking service (SNS) in Japan. While Facebook has only 3.85 million users, mixi has 23 million users.

2) Navitime: When Fujitsu’s Windows Phone device was exposed we came to know about this app. Navitime is one of popular navigation services in Japan including roadmaps, transit information for train & bus.

3) Jorudan Norikae-Annai: Jorudan is popular train route finder service in Japan.

4) Hot Pepper : Hotpepper is popular gourmet and coupon service in Japan.

Find the video showing the same after the break.

via: nanophone.jp

Update: App descriptions updated with more details.

About Pradeep Viswav

Pradeep was a Microsoft Student Partner when he was pursuing his Computer Science & Engineering degree. He now works for a MNC. He is passionate about technology and loves to share his knowledge with people. People used to mention him as “A Geek who is not Nerd”. He was fascinated by the Metro Design language and Windows Phone which made him to follow and develop applications for it. Follow him at twitter.com/pradeepviswav

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rsgx

A handset that looks like that in reality would be their #1 selling phone, hands down.

In fact, that looks an awful lot like Nokia’s concept.

http://zapp5.staticworld.net/news/graphics/219676-nokia_concept_zoom_large_original.png
Ub

Actually it looks like the Samsung device shown off at WPC conference
Anonymous

I’m happy to see a Mixi app and a Train app, but I wish they had been able to integrate the service into the OS like facebook. Nobody uses facebook in Japan – those 3 million or whatnot are total users, not active users. I also wish the train app was integrated into Bing, as it’s not just a “helpful app to have on phone”- it could be a major selling point of the phone, especially since the train system – especilly the Japanese one – were used in designing the OS. The other thing I fear is the “Mixi App syndrome”. There’s dozens of apps on the iPhone, but in the end it’s better to just use the browser.
Anonymous

I’m happy to see a Mixi app and a Train app, but I wish they had been able to integrate the service into the OS like facebook. Nobody uses facebook in Japan – those 3 million or whatnot are total users, not active users. I also wish the train app was integrated into Bing, as it’s not just a “helpful app to have on phone”- it could be a major selling point of the phone, especially since the train system – especilly the Japanese one – were used in designing the OS. The other thing I fear is the “Mixi App syndrome”. There’s dozens of apps on the iPhone, but in the end it’s better to just use the browser.
Anonymous

Also, I hope RECRUIT (which made the Hot Pepper apps), brings their plethora of apps to the platform, as their apps for iPhone are AMAZING (little used, though, oddly) and use the Metro interface oddly better on the iPhone.
http://twitter.com/mrcraggle Craig Osborne

Is that phone a real phone or just some mock up? If it’s just a mock up then they should actually make it. Large screen with thin bezel with not much space at the top or bottom – yes please.

Jin

This is the ZTE Windows Phone…

http://www.liveside.net/2011/07/16/first-images-of-zte-windows-phone-mango-devices-revealed/

Anonymous

There’s almost no way in heck Microsoft would be advertising for Windows Phone on a Chinese Company’s phone in Japan. Until about a year ago, it was impossible for foreign makers to penetrate the Japanese market, and Japaanese perceptions of Chinese companies are horrible.

I’m guessing it’s just a generic phone, as Nokia also pulled out of Japan

http://www.flavors.me/fludlyt Fludlyt

Maybe it’s just the background image but that last train app in the video looks great.
http://chmun77.myopenid.com/ Claypot77

Looks like prototypes…. But Japanese fonts really look nices on WP7.

Anonymous

WP7 uses typography as art, which naturally lends itself to ideogrammic languages like Japanese (Kanji), Korean, and Chinese.

Either way, would love to test out the Fujitsu handset if it ever comes to my country.