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Fujitsu unveils dual-boot Windows 7/Symbian powered smartphone

By | July 21, 2011, 9:57am PDT

Why go for a Windows 7 tablet when you can have Windows 7 running on your smartphone?

Fujitsu has unveiled the NTT DoCoMo’s Fujitsu LOOX F-07C smartphone that comes complete with Windows 7 pre-loaded and a 2-year license for Office 2010. Fujitsu claim that this is the ”world’s smallest PC that fits into the palm of the user’s hand.”

Featuring a 4-inch SVGA touchscreen (1024 × 600 resolution) display, an Intel Atom Z600 processor running at 1.20GHz, 1GB of RAM, and 32GB of flash storage (and microSDHC card support), the F-07C can switch between ‘Mobile Phone Mode’ (Symbian) and ‘Windows 7 Mode’ at the touch of a button.

I’ve no idea what Windows 7 will be like on this hardware. I fear that it might be somewhere between abysmal and awful, but I could be wrong.

For now this will only be available in Japan (price is around ¥70,000 ($860). Launch is listed as July 23.

One drawback … Windows 7 mode only gives you 2 hours of battery life!

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RE: Fujitsu unveils dual-boot Windows 7/Symbian powered smartphone
MrElectrifyer 26th Jul
Nice mobile mode, but how does it last longer on 3G than on the regular GSM? Last time I checked, 3G is a lot faster (thus would require more power) than GSM. That's insane if it's actually true shocked

Now about the PC mode, unless it has an accessory like the Lapdock for the Motorola Atrix, it is simply gonna be eye straining on such a small screen device silly
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Is this an April Fools?
zwhittaker Updated - 21st Jul
I never ever thought I'd end up seeing something like this...!
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Neither have I. It's intriguing
William Pharaoh 21st Jul
@zwhittaker
but never anything I would buy, let alone concieve.
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Windows 7 no, but Windows 8 definately
Johnny Vegas 21st Jul
love to be able to just walk up and use any wireless mouse/keyboard/display with a computer like this...
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RE: Fujitsu unveils dual-boot Windows 7/Symbian powered smartphone
jgm@... 21st Jul
@Johnny Vegas I could delete Windows 7, install openSUSE Linux, and my dreams could come true! All I ask of the tech world is an x86 pocket computer (bring back the UMPC dangit!) that can incidentally make phone calls. Is that too much to ask? Apparently not anymore....
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RE: Fujitsu unveils dual-boot Windows 7/Symbian powered smartphone
LoverockDavidson 21st Jul
You will find more people just booting into Microsoft Windows 7 and pretty much eliminating the need for Symbian on it. Its like having a full fledged computer right in your hands. And since the rest of your network already runs Microsoft Windows 7, integrating this device into it will be easy.
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RE: Fujitsu unveils dual-boot Windows 7/Symbian powered smartphone
OffsideInVancouver 21st Jul
@LoverockDavidson

Two hour battery life.

It's a mobile phone, that you have to keep tied to the wall!
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RE: Fujitsu unveils dual-boot Windows 7/Symbian powered smartphone
LoverockDavidson 21st Jul
@OffsideInVancouver
Totally worth it.
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No
Michael Alan Goff 22nd Jul
This is meant to be a mobile device, and more importantly a phone.

2hrs is unacceptable.
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RE: Fujitsu unveils dual-boot Windows 7/Symbian powered smartphone
jatbains 21st Jul
I am voting for Windows 8!!
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Holy crap...
Michael Alan Goff 21st Jul
2 hrs of battery life? Really?
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RE: Fujitsu unveils dual-boot Windows 7/Symbian powered smartphone
SlithyTove 21st Jul
I'm more intrigued by the fact that this is even possible than I am by the idea of actually trying to use the device.

2 hours battery life sounds pretty bad, but it wasn't so long ago that this is what you would expect out of a full laptop.

Can it be docked?
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RE: Fujitsu unveils dual-boot Windows 7/Symbian powered smartphone
brian@... 22nd Jul
This is actually quite intriguing, particularly if a "docking station" is available, for the device. I'd be very interested in something like this if it had a "smart dock" like Motorola's Atrix.
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when the tablets get a phone chip
sparkle farkle Updated - 22nd Jul
I'll be alot more interested in having an operating system on my phone when the tablet IS my phone, and am able to just have the pad and a bluetooth headset. Having to carry around a pad and a phone is just too much to deal with. working on a document with a microscope really isn't much fun either.
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Load Windows 8 on that thing...
iravgupta 22nd Jul
it would work in tiled mode on the phone, and when the phone is attached to a docking station like Motorola Atrix, it would show the traditional desktop.
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RE: Fujitsu unveils dual-boot Windows 7/Symbian powered smartphone
Jimster480 22nd Jul
Thats actually pretty nice, if only it ran Android instead of the dying symbian platform I might be interested.
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RE: Fujitsu unveils dual-boot Windows 7/Symbian powered smartphone
Lghost 23rd Jul
I pretty sure it can play Warcraft III on this device, and I quite sure we can play crysis on this kind of phone after 2 years.
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RE: Fujitsu unveils dual-boot Windows 7/Symbian powered smartphone
grayknight 25th Jul
I'm sure it won't be much longer for even more powerful hardware like this. This is why Windows 8 is going to be used for both tablets and Desktops. Windows 9 is most likely going to be phones, tablets, desktops, etc.
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RE: Fujitsu unveils dual-boot Windows 7/Symbian powered smartphone
MrElectrifyer 26th Jul
Nice mobile mode, but how does it last longer on 3G than on the regular GSM? Last time I checked, 3G is a lot faster (thus would require more power) than GSM. That's insane if it's actually true shocked

Now about the PC mode, unless it has an accessory like the Lapdock for the Motorola Atrix, it is simply gonna be eye straining on such a small screen device silly

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