Fujitsu to jump on the Android bandwagon?

By on Jul 11, 2010 at 7:43 AM
Rumor July 11, 2010

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Several Japanese newspapers are reporting that Fujitsu is working on an Android smartphone. This first Android offering from the Japanese electronics giant is expected to land next year with NTT DoCoMo and will be the first smartphone in Fujitsu’s handset lineup. Details on the device are sparse but with the future merger of Fujitsu’s mobile division with Toshiba’s mobile business unit, we can conjure up images of an Android handset that takes the high-end features of the Toshiba TG01 and mixes it with the innovative, separable design of the F-04B. Sounds like a match made in heaven, no?

[Via Mobile Crunch]

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  • all handsets look same

    because of android, all handsets look same. There is no compelling reason for me that i should buy HTC over Fujitsu or Motorola over Samsung. All looks same if you see the home screen. Now i am getting bored with this.
    All handset companies who are using Android has lost their identity. This seems like long deep Android black hole.

    • zxc

      Yeah I agree, but the same goes for the iPhone. You get 3 phones to choose from, only differing with internal hardware. At least the various companies who use Android differ in their form factor and design

      • StevenGlansburg

        that is the dumbest argument ever. The iphone is made by ONE COMPANY, Apple. They make a new version once a year. Android phones are made by many different manufactures 4-5 times a year for one carrier alone. It’s just a constant release of beta devices.

      • JMR

        If you don’t like the OS buy a different model. All Android phones ain’t the same. Just because the OS is similar doesn’t mean jack. At least it’s different innovation unlike the iphone, same old phone, new package and display.

      • MikeD

        JMR, You can’t be serious. Since you are focusing on the OS. Outside of minor cosmetics like HTCs SenseUI for example, Android OS is basically the same on all their devices. There is no radical departure among them.

        If somebody doesn’t like the iPhone OS (Which you guys love to claim), when they jump to Android/Blackberry/WebOS thats is a real change in OS.

        If somebody doesn’t like Android OS jumping to another Android OS Device is not changing the OS. Its just changing HARDWARE. So if somebody doesn’t like Android OS (Which I know its hard for you to believe) they going from Android to Blackberry/iPhone/WebOS/or whatever other OS is actually getting away from the OS.

        You think theres a huge difference between the DroidX and the Incredible? Where’s the huge appearance difference between early Android OS and the latest version of Android? All we have seen among all these OSes is layering up layering of capabilities to the existing interface. Sense UI is just window dressing. Froyo is the real heart of the OS at the moment.

        So going from: (Focused only on smartphones)

        Android smartphone to Android smartphone = is no REAL change in OS. Just a Hardware/Cosmetic re-adjustment

        Android smartphone to Blackberry/iPhone/WebOS smartphone = A REAL departure from the previous OS.

        Blackberry/iPhone/WebOS to Android smartphone = A REAL departure from the previous OS.

        Android biggest diversity case is Hardware, not the OS. The OS is meant to unify the devices so these different hardwares can run the same apps.

      • MikeD

        zxc,

        They have to change their form factors or they just become any other Android phone maker. The Android platform is a battlefield unto itself. Recently Android was said to have a 13% share. I’m still waiting to see how the 13% breaks down between the Android smartphone makers. Fujitsu is yet another company that has to carve out its share of the Smartphone landscape out of the potential Android smartphone customer and potential base.

        I predict in 5-6 years we’ll see a consolidation of Android smartphones once LTE is in full swing in the US. There will be a big one or two Android devices and will have close to iPhone like following the rest will be rather niche. IMHO I’m pretty certain the Moto Droid is one, maybe Fujitsu could be the second titan in the Android space.

        PS: When you give people choice its a good thing. But too much choice eventually confuses people and then they don’t buy anything at all. In the end companies want people to BUY. So its a balancing act for all these companies.

      • jet
    • WalterSobchak

      Are you serious? Ill take the bait….
      Flipout, charm, evo, backflip, streak, aria, hawei 7″ phone, etc. There is even a millitary spec android flip phone. All very different and all run android.
      This is all just a waste of time trying to explain this to someone who doesn’t understand “a” and “the” however.

  • Agd

    @ all handsets look same, God I couldn’t agree with you more.

  • whoo hoo

    But I always thought that was Android’s strength. The fact that it’s the same OS over different handsets. To me at least, it’s not boring. That’s part of what keeps me with Blackberry, a couple of form factors to jump from, but not stray away (fragment) from the “get down to business part: the OS”. I guess I’m a psycho that thinks that as long as the specs & hardware can handle the minimum requirements for the OS, that there will be someone out there to fall in love with it. Performance lag would only make me want to slam my phone if it happened with basic phone functions or messaging, not when we get into “light computing” level tasks, I take those as icing on my cake (no Android pun intended). I know this must sound like blasphemy on a tech blog, sorry lol. I love my phone, but prefer a “light computing” device to go along with it (an Android tablet, iPad, netbook, etc.) If not only to spare my phone’s battery because it needs all the juice available for all the “work” & productivity stuff I can find a way to throw at it when only a phone is an option to tote around.

  • Sonya

    All BB, Android, and iPhones looks the same too. Someone will eventually break the cycle, I wonder who it’ll be.

    • bringit

      So do pretty much all new flat screen TV’s, cameras, laptops, desktops etc. Part of the beauty of Android is the ability of different hardware co’s to incorporate Android into a PDA and add/modify the experience. I’ll take that over one iPhone (for example).

  • Asad

    How come all the Android phones look the same? Motorola is different, they have their different hardware and software i.e Motoblur. HTC has Sense UI which is the best, and Samsung has TouchWiz. They are different, you just need to find a difference.

  • joe c.

    tell me what is a carry over from the 3GS to the 4 besides the name? the gsm chip? stop whining

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

    • Mr.Bill

      The fail.

  • Harold

    Who cares what the damn things *look like?!* We’re talking OS anyway. As far as Fujitsu coming aboard, my first cellular phone (about twenty years ago) was a Fujitsu and it was the finest product available at the time.

    I welcome them to the fold.

  • nopple

    So what apple Fanboys. Its lot better than iphone. Its like saying all windows 7 laptops look the same. I cant believe these fanboys who work at wendy’s making $5 an hour making stupid comments.

    • jet

      yes, PC or laptop were the same, but you can not carry it with you all the time. You can carry Mobile phones where ever you want. all handsets makes you feel different or let look you different in the crowd.
      Again in laptop or desktops , possibility of hardware configuration is big enough to look different, which is not the case of mobile.
      Again some people will say that apps can make difference. But now for average user, he use 10-12 apps regularly, which are available on all app stores.

  • bgrfan

    Who cares? Japanese cell phones are too advanced for foreign networks: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/technology/20cell.html?em

    Fujitsu phones won’t be available anywhere outside Japan.

    • MikeD

      The article explains why people care. Its the software thats missing. All of those devices have a lot of hardware. Yeha the cameras and radios and tv and all kinds of stuff. But they don’t have the synergy that US smartphones have because of the software. Thats why the iPhone is selling really well in Japan.

      Fujitsu could do big thinks with a good OS on their phones. Android OS seems like a logical choice to rapidly deploy phones with a more versatile OS. Now imagine those Japanese phone with Android/iOS/WebOS. They’d be untouchable. Why Because in Japan they have a lot of the solutions in place that the US doesn’t.

      Just one example is How people in Japan can buy stuff with their phones. Just swipe your phone over a turnstile and yo get on a train, or swipe a vending machine and you get chips or a drink, even condoms.

      The US has fallen so far behind that a serious modernization movement needs to start. And thats is whats really keeping these OSes we love from really wowing us and changing communication and media consumption as we know it.

  • StevenHamburg

    @all handsets look the same,
    The fact that you complain about Android devices looking the same clearly shows that you have little to no experience on them. As of 2.2, the operating system is aesthetically beautiful and very convenient to use. (3.0 will add even more to that beauty). If you don’t like the stock OS, Android is also one of the easiest and most customizable operating systems available.

    Considering the aforementioned, your reasoning for buying a specific brand can now lay in your brand loyalty, your budget, and the hardware of the device.

    Your complaint is close to that of a person complaining that all cars have 4 wheels, a steering wheel, and a speedometer. No validity whatsoever.

    The fact that there are a huge variety of manufacturers using Android is brilliant for the consumer.

  • most fandroids have problems

    All of you fandroids listen up, why are you so worried about fapples? (Apple fans) why do you keep directing comments towards them, everytime I read an article and comments, I see some fandroid talking about fapples, just grow up and get a frigging life, like, do you think fapples really give a dam about what YOU’VE got to say? Get off your computer and go socialize, and iPhone OS ftw because its only on ONE device

  • http://alghienkad06.student.ipb.ac.id/ thea

    greatt

  • Andrew

    ipx-7 waterproof would be nice to have since fujitsus phones have water proof capable, hopefully in something like a f-06b design but ideally something in an f-01b/f-07b design would be preferred. I rather have a flip phone/ with touch screen or rotating flip with waterproof

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