Stuff magazine has an interesting article about the prototypes that fujitsu has come up with, These are different from the ones that we saw before
This UMPC would apparently be about the size of a CD case, and features a fold-out keypad – origami, folding, get it? – for easy web surfing and typing.
This sounds like a much more appealing user interface to us than using a stylus for all our computer work, a route chosen by Samsung and Asus’ first efforts. Like most impossibly clean-cut, minimalist concept designs, it also looks cooler than a polar bear’s bits, but we won’t get too excited until we’ve at least seen a prototype.
Fujitsu’s design team have also been having vodka-and-Red Bull fuelled brainstorming sessions on mobile phones too. The so-called ‘slider’ (below first) looks like a fine web-browsing smartphone, with built-in GPS judging by the maps on the screen.
The multi-slider (below second) is even more ingenious, with a virtual keypad that can slide in four different directions – boring old up, down, left and right we’re afraid – and display the appropriate keys to your chosen function.
Unfortunately, Fujitsu is just playing with us for the moment. There are no imminent real world versions of the designs, but if we keep asking in a whiny annoying voice, it might listen to us and make them one day.
Source [Stuff Magazine]
Those are cell phones that were shown along with a UMPC at Milan.
According to http://www.gizmag.com/go/5464/ they were called:
SLIDER, cellular telephone Slider incorporates a complete keyboard and large web interface screen into a cellular telephone.
MULTI SLIDER, cellular telephone Multi Slider offers a new interface where the functions are selected depending on the direction of the slide. One-hand operation with 4 basic functions that are intuitive to select and use.
http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/340/C7243/
I wonder why stuff is reporting it as a UMPC and not even showing the UMPC.
fujitsu! please! design is so important! its so beafutiful! i need a pocket pc. beautiful! please Fujitsu! is that complaining enough?