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NTT DoCoMo has recently announced what some may call a Frankensteinian perversion among smartphones; the Fujitsu LOOX F-07C is a landscape slider with 4-inch 1024 x 600 display (!), HDMI-out, 5 megapixel camera, 1 GB of RAM, 1.2 GHz processor, and 32 GB of storage. The real kicker? It dual-boots into Symbian or the desktop…
Following on the Fujitsu / Toshiba mobile merger, reports have bubbled up saying that they’ve already started on their first handset, which is headed to Japan’s NTT DoCoMo and will be running Android. Little beyond that is known, but the platform choice is significant, given Toshiba had already put significant time and effort into some…
The rumors were true – Toshiba and Fujitsu are merging their mobile phone businesses in a move that will create Japan’s second largest handset maker, after Sharp — the new company will hold 18.7% of the market, whereas Sharp has a 26.2% share. In addition to straightening their position on the domestic market, the two…
More consolidation may be happening among the Japanese handset makers. Last year, NEC, Hitachi and Casio agreed to combine their mobile phone businesses, and now the same could happen with Fujitsu and Toshiba. If that happens, the new company would be Japan’s second largest phone maker after Sharp. It is said that Fujitsu and Toshiba…
Remember the F-04B “separate Kentai” phone? No? It’s the modular keyboard-slider that can be separated into a display module and a keyboard module (communication done via bluetooth). It also has a WVGA DLP pico-projector attachment available. The device is now available in Japan, and NTT has been kind enough to release an Ad showing how…
At the CEATEC show in Japan, Fujitsu is showing off quite a variety of concept phones that are worth a gander. Sure, they may never see the light of a release proper, but it’s always fun to watch an episode of “Industrial Designers Gone Wild”. That round dealie on the left has a bit of…
We’re not all that keen on covering the Japanese world of high-style feature phones, what with them never seeing the light of day outside Japan’s borders. Call it jealously if you want, but it’s just easier to not think about the cool WiBro and electronic wallet technologies that those Japanese feature phones are rocking these…
Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo is working with Fujitsu, Sharp and Reneas to make an HSUPA-compatible handset for a 2010 release. The SH-Mobile G4 will boast 5.7 Mbps uplink speeds, which is quite the jump from our current 384kbps. HSUPA is the Yin to HSDPA’s Yang – offering upload speeds that match download. HSDPA is considerably…
Probably the coolest thing out of CEATEC is this new, fully-functional separating phone from NTT DoCoMo dubbed appropriately Separate Keitai (handset). By communicating via Bluetooth, you can pull this phone apart and keep talking on one end while doing business on the other. Magnets make it highly reconfigurable and provide some very imaginative possibilities. The…
Fujitsu has been chosen by NTT DoCoMo to be a supplier of the core networking systems (EPC, or “Evolved Packet Core”) for the next-gen LTE (4G) network. This follows a 2006 deal for Fujitsu to develop and manufacture the wireless base stations and handsets for the network. The new systems will integrate with Nokia hardware…