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."

Comments

Just what I need

[gyrogeerloose]

Another part to get lost. Cool.

Goody.

[kheldan]

Now you'll have TWO overpriced batteries to replace instead of just one!

Saucer section

[Hatta]

Sweet, it's just like the Enterprise. This will come in handy in case of a warp core breach.

Re:Projector?

[TheRaven64]

Doesn't this seem a bit much for a phone?

A modern phone has 128MB or 256MB of RAM, up to around 32GB of flash, a 600MHz 32-bit CPU, an OpenGL 2 ES GPU, an video processing unit that can encode (and decode) 720p H.264 in real time, a network connection that can deliver 3-7Mb/s anywhere or 54Mb/s on a WLAN and bluetooth for local input. It has better specs than the workstation I was using just a few years ago and similar specs to the desktops that a lot of non-geeks that I know are still using.