The weirdest Windows phone in years comes from Japan

Microsoft’s first Lumia smartphones running Windows 10 Mobile have just landed, but we’re yet to see much in the way of third-party support for the new OS. That might not be much of a surprise; big-hitter Android OEMs like Samsung and HTC haven’t paid Windows Phone much attention in years, and they were some of its bigger supporters.

That’s not to say there won’t be any offerings beside Microsoft’s own, however, and the past week has seen some emerge from the unlikeliest of countries — Japan. Microsoft’s failure with Windows Phone here almost makes its local Xbox efforts look like a success; after a single Windows Phone 7 handset from Toshiba and Fujitsu flopped, the entire platform has been dead on arrival. But two Windows Mobile 10...

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