Fujitsu is going to release a smartphone with dual OS (Symbian - Windows 7)

Generally speaking, I had not heard before that Fujitsu released mobile phones. Interested, searched the Web, found as many as four models, the newest of which dates back to 2007. Apparently, the company's management decided to try a relatively new field for themselves again, since Fujitsu announced a new phone, Fujitsu Loox F-07C. This is a fairly modern device, it is clear that the developers tried, although there are problems.

The horizontal slider Fujitsu Loox F-07C is equipped with a full QWERTY-keyboard, plus a large enough, 4 inches after all, display. The resolution of the latter is 1024 * 600 pixels, which is also a lot. The hardware platform here is based on the Intel Atom (Intel Atom Z600). Plus, the phone has a solid state drive with a capacity of 32 gigabytes.

The phone measures 125 x 61 x 19.8 mm, while the weight of the device is 218 grams. This device is probably closer to UMPCs than to cell phones, although it is rather difficult to determine. The most interesting thing about this device is that by pressing one button you can switch from Symbian OS to Windows 7 (!). Interesting enough combination, right?



The guys from Engadget, who managed to test the device, were not satisfied with the Windows mode. Indeed, the device is equipped with only 1 GB of RAM, plus in Windows-mode the processor operates at a frequency of only 600 MHz. This is clearly not enough for this operating system, and the result is predictable: it slows down anything that can slow down, including watching videos on YouTube with a resolution of 480p. At 360p, everything seemed to go fine.



In general, a rather interesting device, which can hardly be called practical. But for geeks - that’s it. After all, you can pull out your device at any time, and declare: “My phone works on Windows 7!”. Well, how it works in this mode is another question.

And one more thing - this phone is produced for the Japanese market, so far its appearance in other regions is in question.



Via Engadget