Yeah. One of their recent claims to fame is being the first to put an Iris scanner on a phone. They just appear not to sell in the US or European markets; so they don't have much of a presence in the English language tech press.
Fujitsu is a very interior company, they don't sell many products outside of Japan. I remember years ago setting up a satellite office in Chicago of a Japanese marketing company and the IT dept shipped all these Fujitsu workstations, monitors, laptops, and servers (yes, servers) all with Japanese keyboards and documentation. They felt like old Sun or NeXT workstations, with purple trim, and they were all grossly overengineered. I remember opening one up and little things like the cages for the fans were hot swap, cable-less and had rubber vibration dampers. This being the late early 2000's I'd rarely seen anything like this outside of a server rack, and this was a desktop PC.
Trying to figure out what world you live in, that you've never been to Europe, and subsequently don't believe they have other products that differ from where you are, wherever that is.... Again, They've been making phones for years now. Europe had .mp3 playing phones before we did, I know I had one in 2005 when I was in Germany...
I stick by my statement, that whatever place you're from, you sure do have an aggregated understanding of reality.
These sales numbers for their entire 2015 financial year is not what one would call "a big supplier". In fact, that would make it a rather small supplier. Apple, by contrast, with just 8.3% of the world market in computers, did about $27 billion in computer sales in 2015, and with about 28% of the worlds market for tablets, did about $45 billion in tablets.
Whoever names phone colors at Fujitsu needs to read up on Typoglycemia because after reading that phone's color I expected it to look like a Shamrock (read: Irish Green)
I thought this was a website for tech enthusiasts. Fujitsu was one of the earliest companies out with ultraportable microcomputers, PDA, tablets and indeed their cousins, smartphones. Competing with Toshiba, IBM Japan, Sharp, Panasonic etc. Enthusiasts used to import these things in the US though traders like Dynamism and Conics. This efore the likes of Jobs copied the originals and thus you have iphone or ipad or Macbook air
I think Fujitsu did have a western presence in industrial markets, like the handhelds in medical markets, delivery companies etc. But definitely smartphones.
Of the above companies I think maybe only Sharp and Panasonic still make smartphones, still purely focused on Japan market.
Yeah, I was going to comment something like that. I remember the Fujitsu laptops that were ultra-thin... and then came Apple and stole the show. Not hating on Apple, just that poor Fujitsu never had the marketing push that Apple had.
I still have my Fujitsu P1510D. That was an amazing little convertible for the time. I recently tried to install Windows 10 on it, but unfortunately there are no WDDM drivers for Intel 915, so that killed that prospect.
The Sharp Actius series of laptops was surely the template for the "MacBook Air". I believe there is no way that Jobs and the other top techies at Apple didn't own and use these back in the day. Any ultraportable enthusiast had these.
I dont think Fujitsu had any laptops below about 13" but the ones they had at that 13"-14" size were the lightest. They were sold in the US for sure. Both directly and via a few retailers. But Fujitsu was certainly big n the industrial sector in the US for tablets (running Windows CE, if I recall correctly), well before Ipad existed at all.
The Sharp Actius series of laptops was surely the template for the "MacBook Air". I believe there is no way that Jobs and the other top techies at Apple didn't own and use these back in the day. Any ultraportable enthusiast had these.
I dont think Fujitsu had any laptops below about 13" but the ones they had at that 13"-14" size were the lightest. They were sold in the US for sure. Both directly and via a few retailers. But Fujitsu was certainly big n the industrial sector in the US for tablets (running Windows CE, if I recall correctly), well before Ipad existed at all.
I would dispute your recollection on the laptops at least - they were top not and fairly advanced. In the early 2000s the lightest and highest resolution 13" and 14" laptops were actually made by Fujitsu (and Sharp as well). I owned a few of these.
They were available for sale to consumers directly from Fujitsu USA online and also via PortableOne and Dynamism, although Dynamism was importing them. You could also get them at some of the niche computer retailers (ie brick and mortar shops).
FUJITSU IS A PWERHOUSE SUPPLIER OF MAJOR RETAIL COMPUTERS/POS SLICES AND POS IT SERVICES AS WELL AS ENTERPRISE. FROM STARBUCKS TO ROSS AND RALPHS AND BLA BLA ETC... THE CONSUMER IS NOT THE ONLY MARKET OUT THERE.. THERE IS ALL SORTS OF BUSINESS THAT NEED TECHNOLOGY AND SERVICES AND THATS A HUGE PART OF FUJITSU HERE IN AMERICA AND EUROPE. THEY ALSO HAVE A GINORMOUS R&D. SUPER COMPUTING & INOVATING AND EVOLVING TECHNOLOGIES LIKE FIBER OPTICS.. THE ENGINEERING ON THERE PCS FOR LARGE CORPERATE ENTITIES ALSO IS ONE OF THE MOST EFFICIANTLY ENGINNEERED FOR FAST AND EASY FIELD ENGINEERS TO SERVICE.. WHERE DO U GUYS LIVE? UNDER A ROCK?
lol... so true. Although the use of caps was probably not necessary.
Fujitsu sell a lot of laptops, desktops and servers here in the UK market. We have a small Fujitsu server at work and it's incredibly well built and engineered.
Regardless where some individuals live, this site overall is too biased towards America. I know it does have European writers, but the site is too weighted to America. Maybe it should consider an Asian based writer to give some global balance?
My favourite pointing device on a laptop was on my Fujitsu Lifebook 765dx, back in 1998-ish. Wasn't a trackpad, wasn't a trackpoint, wasn't a ball. It was, basically, a thumbpad from a game controller, with two mouse buttons underneath. You could rest your index finger (and your middle finger for better control) on it, which let your thumb naturally rest on the left mouse button. Then just move your finger around like on a joystick to move the mouse; how hard/far you press in a direction translated into how fast the mouse moved in that direction. Because of it's size, it was a hell of a lot easier to use / more accurate than the annoying Thinkpad nipple. Nobody else used that pointing device, and Fujitsu eventually stopped using it.
Really miss that, especially on smaller devices like netbooks / tablet keyboards.
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Pissedoffyouth - Wednesday, December 30, 2015 - link
They had a smartphone division???boozed - Wednesday, December 30, 2015 - link
Must be some kind of sub-editor's error...DanNeely - Wednesday, December 30, 2015 - link
Yeah. One of their recent claims to fame is being the first to put an Iris scanner on a phone. They just appear not to sell in the US or European markets; so they don't have much of a presence in the English language tech press.http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/fujitsu-arrow-...
Samus - Thursday, December 31, 2015 - link
Fujitsu is a very interior company, they don't sell many products outside of Japan. I remember years ago setting up a satellite office in Chicago of a Japanese marketing company and the IT dept shipped all these Fujitsu workstations, monitors, laptops, and servers (yes, servers) all with Japanese keyboards and documentation. They felt like old Sun or NeXT workstations, with purple trim, and they were all grossly overengineered. I remember opening one up and little things like the cages for the fans were hot swap, cable-less and had rubber vibration dampers. This being the late early 2000's I'd rarely seen anything like this outside of a server rack, and this was a desktop PC.sna1970 - Friday, January 1, 2016 - link
here , you can but fujetsu phones here and free shippinghttp://www.kyoex.com/
ddriver - Wednesday, December 30, 2015 - link
Yeah, I don't recall encountering a fujitsu phone...JoeMonco - Thursday, December 31, 2015 - link
Unless you lived or frequently travelled to Japan why would you have?Hate to break it to you, but there are tons of things that exist in the world that you probably never encountered.
ddriver - Thursday, December 31, 2015 - link
You don't say...sna1970 - Friday, January 1, 2016 - link
have fun buyinghttp://www.kyoex.com/
littlebitstrouds - Wednesday, December 30, 2015 - link
"There's a world outside America?" - Not asking people to understand/know it all, but this is such a prevalent attitude with American people.They've been making phones for a looooong time.
Pissedoffyouth - Thursday, December 31, 2015 - link
I don't live in the US dudelittlebitstrouds - Friday, January 1, 2016 - link
Trying to figure out what world you live in, that you've never been to Europe, and subsequently don't believe they have other products that differ from where you are, wherever that is.... Again, They've been making phones for years now. Europe had .mp3 playing phones before we did, I know I had one in 2005 when I was in Germany...I stick by my statement, that whatever place you're from, you sure do have an aggregated understanding of reality.
MrSpadge - Friday, January 1, 2016 - link
There's no Fujitsu Smartphone listed in online shops in entire Europe (http://geizhals.eu/?cat=umtsover).sna1970 - Friday, January 1, 2016 - link
http://www.kyoex.com/sna1970 - Friday, January 1, 2016 - link
yes and you can buy it from herehttp://www.kyoex.com/
melgross - Wednesday, December 30, 2015 - link
These sales numbers for their entire 2015 financial year is not what one would call "a big supplier". In fact, that would make it a rather small supplier. Apple, by contrast, with just 8.3% of the world market in computers, did about $27 billion in computer sales in 2015, and with about 28% of the worlds market for tablets, did about $45 billion in tablets.StrangerGuy - Saturday, January 2, 2016 - link
The ultimate irony is how the once thought to be unassailable Japan smartphone market is now utterly dominated by Apple.caleblloyd - Wednesday, December 30, 2015 - link
Whoever names phone colors at Fujitsu needs to read up on Typoglycemia because after reading that phone's color I expected it to look like a Shamrock (read: Irish Green)Osamede - Wednesday, December 30, 2015 - link
I thought this was a website for tech enthusiasts. Fujitsu was one of the earliest companies out with ultraportable microcomputers, PDA, tablets and indeed their cousins, smartphones. Competing with Toshiba, IBM Japan, Sharp, Panasonic etc. Enthusiasts used to import these things in the US though traders like Dynamism and Conics. This efore the likes of Jobs copied the originals and thus you have iphone or ipad or Macbook airI think Fujitsu did have a western presence in industrial markets, like the handhelds in medical markets, delivery companies etc. But definitely smartphones.
Of the above companies I think maybe only Sharp and Panasonic still make smartphones, still purely focused on Japan market.
heffeque - Thursday, December 31, 2015 - link
Yeah, I was going to comment something like that. I remember the Fujitsu laptops that were ultra-thin... and then came Apple and stole the show. Not hating on Apple, just that poor Fujitsu never had the marketing push that Apple had.alexvoda - Thursday, December 31, 2015 - link
Don't forget NEC. I think they still make smartphones. They also make some of the thinnest ultrabooks. The Lavie series.Michael Bay - Saturday, January 2, 2016 - link
My first notebook was Fujitsu-Siemens, and it was okay.ET - Thursday, December 31, 2015 - link
I still have my Fujitsu P1510D. That was an amazing little convertible for the time. I recently tried to install Windows 10 on it, but unfortunately there are no WDDM drivers for Intel 915, so that killed that prospect.sna1970 - Friday, January 1, 2016 - link
any one who wants to buy japanese phones can visit this sitehttp://www.kyoex.com/categories/Shop-Smartphones/F...
Osamede - Friday, January 1, 2016 - link
The Sharp Actius series of laptops was surely the template for the "MacBook Air". I believe there is no way that Jobs and the other top techies at Apple didn't own and use these back in the day. Any ultraportable enthusiast had these.I dont think Fujitsu had any laptops below about 13" but the ones they had at that 13"-14" size were the lightest. They were sold in the US for sure. Both directly and via a few retailers. But Fujitsu was certainly big n the industrial sector in the US for tablets (running Windows CE, if I recall correctly), well before Ipad existed at all.
Osamede - Friday, January 1, 2016 - link
The Sharp Actius series of laptops was surely the template for the "MacBook Air". I believe there is no way that Jobs and the other top techies at Apple didn't own and use these back in the day. Any ultraportable enthusiast had these.I dont think Fujitsu had any laptops below about 13" but the ones they had at that 13"-14" size were the lightest. They were sold in the US for sure. Both directly and via a few retailers. But Fujitsu was certainly big n the industrial sector in the US for tablets (running Windows CE, if I recall correctly), well before Ipad existed at all.
Osamede - Friday, January 1, 2016 - link
I would dispute your recollection on the laptops at least - they were top not and fairly advanced. In the early 2000s the lightest and highest resolution 13" and 14" laptops were actually made by Fujitsu (and Sharp as well). I owned a few of these.They were available for sale to consumers directly from Fujitsu USA online and also via PortableOne and Dynamism, although Dynamism was importing them. You could also get them at some of the niche computer retailers (ie brick and mortar shops).
Teknomaster909 - Saturday, January 2, 2016 - link
FUJITSU IS A PWERHOUSE SUPPLIER OF MAJOR RETAIL COMPUTERS/POS SLICES AND POS IT SERVICES AS WELL AS ENTERPRISE. FROM STARBUCKS TO ROSS AND RALPHS AND BLA BLA ETC... THE CONSUMER IS NOT THE ONLY MARKET OUT THERE.. THERE IS ALL SORTS OF BUSINESS THAT NEED TECHNOLOGY AND SERVICES AND THATS A HUGE PART OF FUJITSU HERE IN AMERICA AND EUROPE. THEY ALSO HAVE A GINORMOUS R&D. SUPER COMPUTING & INOVATING AND EVOLVING TECHNOLOGIES LIKE FIBER OPTICS.. THE ENGINEERING ON THERE PCS FOR LARGE CORPERATE ENTITIES ALSO IS ONE OF THE MOST EFFICIANTLY ENGINNEERED FOR FAST AND EASY FIELD ENGINEERS TO SERVICE.. WHERE DO U GUYS LIVE? UNDER A ROCK?Coup27 - Saturday, January 2, 2016 - link
lol... so true. Although the use of caps was probably not necessary.Fujitsu sell a lot of laptops, desktops and servers here in the UK market. We have a small Fujitsu server at work and it's incredibly well built and engineered.
Regardless where some individuals live, this site overall is too biased towards America. I know it does have European writers, but the site is too weighted to America. Maybe it should consider an Asian based writer to give some global balance?
phoenix_rizzen - Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - link
My favourite pointing device on a laptop was on my Fujitsu Lifebook 765dx, back in 1998-ish. Wasn't a trackpad, wasn't a trackpoint, wasn't a ball. It was, basically, a thumbpad from a game controller, with two mouse buttons underneath. You could rest your index finger (and your middle finger for better control) on it, which let your thumb naturally rest on the left mouse button. Then just move your finger around like on a joystick to move the mouse; how hard/far you press in a direction translated into how fast the mouse moved in that direction. Because of it's size, it was a hell of a lot easier to use / more accurate than the annoying Thinkpad nipple. Nobody else used that pointing device, and Fujitsu eventually stopped using it.Really miss that, especially on smaller devices like netbooks / tablet keyboards.