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Fujitsu's Latest Mobile Phone Splits In Two
angry tapir writes with news of Fujitsu's new phone which is taking the sliding phone keyboard a step further by allowing it to detach completely. "The F-04B was announced as part of NTT DoCoMo's new line-up and is scheduled to hit Japanese shelves in March or April next year. At first glance it looks like a conventional slider cell phone: grab onto the bottom of the phone and a numeric keypad slides out. But decouple a catch and the entire back half of the phone can be pulled off."
Another part to get lost. Cool.
This ain't rocket surgery.
Now you'll have TWO overpriced batteries to replace instead of just one!
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
How useful is this when you are stuck with the little lens on the camera?
Another good use would be talking on the phone while looking something up or taking notes. This is fairly common, and the only way to do it with most smart phones is with speaker phone, which doesn't work in noisy environments, and is generally poor in quiet ones (the phone picks up the loud noises of key or screen presses). Of course, a Bluetooth headset would accomplish the same thing.
1. It looks very large in her small hands and a bit too thick for my taste, but then again there is a projector and probably one battery per part of the phone which takes extra space.
2. I guess it's because then Apple would have to make a keyboard themselves which was locked somehow so that it was the only BT KB that the iPhone could use. I mean otherwise people could use the BT for something more useful then what we can do today with it and that would be bad in apples eyes.
I call BS. There's no way the phone in the video is 5cm thick.
It is so that you can lose one part and have to purchase a replacement for it, only to find it in your couch months later.
Ya, it really sucks that I have to buy special Apple brand BT headsets to work with their products.
Oh, wait. It doesn't because I don't have to.
Really, this sort of drivel gets insightful? Go go /. Apple Hate!
I'm just hoping Android makes it big so I can watch /. turn on their once favorite underdog.