In this day and age, it's really hard to stand out in the smartphone world. There's only so much you can do with the default slab design, and despite all the talk, iOS and Android are petty much the same thing in the grand scheme of things. Thank god for Japan, though. At least those guys have the sheer determination to build a smartphone which dual boots Symbian and... Windows 7. No, not Windows Phone 7. Windows 7.
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The article is light on details and begs several questions. Can it send and receive calls in Windows 7 mode? Does it synchronize contacts, email, bookmarks, SMS, call history, music, videos, photos, etc. between Symbian and Windows 7? Can it run any software developed for Windows 7?
As cool as this seems, I have a feeling that there is very little interest in using a phone with two different operating systems, but maybe this phone will prove me wrong.
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When can we start dual-booting Symbian on netbooks?
Right here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_netBook
Oh wait.
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I liked PDA phones when back when they were, you know, PDA phones, geeky and niche. Just when I thought phones were getting too mainstream to be interesting, this thing comes along. It’s completely pointless, probably not very practical, and utterly cool. Way to go Fujitsu.
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I give up and abandon my delusions of being a geek. Why? Because when I realized that the mention of Windows 7 was not a typo, I asked myself why anyone would want such a thing.
A few years ago I might've gushed over how cool it would be to have a fully capable computer in your pocket like this--except I've been there and realized this sort of thing just doesn't work in practice.
Two years ago I might've pointed out that this is nothing new really and $CompanyName did it before, complete with link to their website and product page.
Last year I might've even smiled bemusedly as I tried to pretend to be impressed with it as a technology demonstration of how much power could be packed into such a small space.
Trying to do real work on such a tiny screen is for the birds. It just isn't worth it.
--bornagainpenguin
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Pure troll dude...
Take it from someone who actually tried it: XP, Vista and Win 7 runs perfectly ok on a single core 600MHz Atom / 1GB Ram.
Even Vista does so better than any current version of Ubuntu (8.04 or higher).
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LOL. What did you tried to do? Stare at desktop icons?
I have HP Mini210 - atom N470@1.83GHz with HT and 2GB.
Windows7 with Chrome running slow like hell.
Even Vista does so better than any current version of Ubuntu (8.04 or higher).
Yes, so what?
HP has SplashTop or whatever it is called.
It is so slow what it can't even accept keyboard input in realtime =)
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Windows7 with Chrome running slow like hell.
Uh. That makes no sense. My server is an Atom-based machine running Windows 7 and it can run a Minecraft server with several players comfortably. It can do live conversion and streaming of video to my iPad.
Me thinks you're trolling.
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