Fujitsu LOOX F-07C – the dual boot (Symbian/Windows 7) smartphone now available in Japan (with NTT DoCoMo)

The LOOX F-07C (despite the weird name and model) is definitely a wonderful and unique device to own (unfortunately not available outside Japan). NTT DoCoMo described it as “World's smallest Windows 7 PC”. As described in the post title it is able to boot either into Symbian or Windows 7 (Home Premium SP1 Japanese edition). User can switch between Windows 7 PC mode and mobile phone mode with just press of a button. Read more at Fujitsu official website.

For Windows 7 to run gracefully LOOX sports a 1.2GHz Intel Atom Z600 processor (running down-clocked at 50 percent only – perhaps to save the precious battery juice), 1GB (LPDDR400) RAM.

There is a 32GB eMMC SSD memory, expandable with microSD memory card

Screen - 4-inch SVGA (1024 x 600) TFT LCD display having 262K colors

Camera - 5-megapixel main (rear), autofocus camera plus a front-facing VGA camera

Battery – Upto 2hours backup when running Windows 7 and it automatically switches to mobile phone mode when battery is low

Other features include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, two-year Microsoft Office Personal 2010 license, Internet Explorer 9 etc.

LOOX F-07C is now available with NTT DoCoMo in Japan.

iOS 5 beta 4 released with addition of some minor features including OTA update option

Apple released iOS 5 beta4 yesterday for all the supported iDevices (iPad 2, iPhone 4 and 3GS, 3rd and 4th gen iPod Touch). This release is unique in that it is the first OTA upgradable iOS version, however a ridiculous warning appears when using this option saying “All photos will be deleted on updating OTA”. Some other minor feature updates to this beta are – 

Improved location feature in Twitter app, MobileMe local contacts are deleted rather than being merged, iCloud file names have been made case sensitive etc. Now it would be interesting to see when this release is jailbroken to unravel some more new features.

If you are having trouble updating to this beta 4 update (perhaps due to running beta 3) then try going back to iOS 4.3.4 and then update to iOS 5 beta 4.

Iconography of Nokia (Symbian, S40 and MeeGo Harmattan) phones is getting updated (Slowly)

Nokia is busy updating the design of its UI (mainly icons), these days. If you have a Symbian phone and installed some latest apps (like PlayTo from betalabs) recently then you might have noticed the new type of icons different from the conventional Nokia ones. In fact all icons in Symbian Anna phones are the new ones. Icons are getting a little curvy as Nokia puts it – “The corners have become a little more rounded, and the styling a bit more simple.” All this change is due to the update of icon guidelines (at Nokia Developer site) for all the major Nokia platforms (Series 40 Touch and Type, Symbian and MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan).

All I can say about this change is – watch out Nokia, don’t make icons anymore curvier (iPhonesque) as Apple is “eager” to sue you of a patent infringement (like they did with Samsung’s Galaxy SII).