Gadgetory

we didn't get a chance to check them out at CES but Japanese smartphone maker Freetail is at MWC 2016 with few unlocked smartphones destined for the u.s. from Barcelona I'm Michael Fisher with pocket now let's take a look besides the fact that it's bringing it's unlocked offerings to the US complete with support for North American LTE bands 12 and 17 I was attracted to the Freetail booth because of its diversity of offerings in addition to the usual Android slabs there were a couple Windows Mobile devices on display and you'd know I'm a sucker for these folks a clamshell smartphone with dual displays running android 5.1 this is called the musashi and like most of these weirdo models it's meant to help convert the 40% of people still using flip feature phones in Japan into smartphone users Freetail was a little dodgy on this but apparently it does intend to introduce this phone to the US market or at least make it available for sale this spring and when it does it should have a Western keypad for those in search of something a little more conventional to Freetail kiwami is a high-end Android device for the power users out there kowambe means maximum or ultimate and you'll find most of the usual specs here to support that the big six inch quad HD display three gigs of ram 3400 milliamp hour battery and a fingerprint scanner beneath a 21 megapixel camera like all Freetail phones it's powered by a mediatek processor I couldn't pin down anything more specific but it's an octa-core model the coulomb II will be priced at 389 in the US the phone that's been getting the most press because it's the newest one is a little more modest named the ray it's a 5.2 inch full HD smartphone with an aluminum casing with diamond cut edges frankly there's not much in terms of visuals to make it stand out but it's lightweight comfortable to use with one hand and Freetail cells it will launch with android marshmallow when it debuts in late q - that's the launch timeframe for free tells entire first wave of offerings in the US by the way the current plans include the kwame and mid-range priori models rolling out first followed by the Musashi and ray at some later date other models including the Windows 10 units are still a question mark further details as we get them and a full reviews are coming to stay tuned we've got plenty of unlocked smartphones from plenty of countries here at MWC 2016 folks please be sure to check out our other hands on here on YouTube and follow the latest from the news team at pocketnow.com til next time this has been michael fisher captain two phones on twitter thanks for watching see you next time