Kaga Electronics' WiFi/PHS phone

We first saw this phone as a mockup over a year ago, when it was billed as a Fujitsu-developed unit that'd be coming out in the autumn. It now looks like it'll be coming out this autumn (September, to be precise) as Kaga Electronics' WiPCom1000. Specs are much as originally billed -- it'll be running on Windows CE.NET 4.2 (the planned Linux version appears to have been ditched), have a QVGA display, plus a CompactFlash slot on the rear that will take a PHS (a Japan-only short-range digital cellphone format) card from Willcom. Size is a fairly compact 48.3 x 17.1 x 13.4 mm, weight is a lightish 110g. Software includes a web browser and email client, and a developers' kit will be made available.

Pricing is a budget-decimating Y90,000 per phone, though the intention is to sell the handsets to companies as part of a VoIP solution rather than through consumer channels, which leaves us slightly sad, but considerably less poor.

[Via K-Tai Watch (Japanese)]