The fact it runs Aero is amazing

I'm surprised it has aero enabled which means it has an accelerated graphics driver. Would be interesting to see some 3d games running on this phone.

This was the last gasp from Fujitsu's phone division going down and being reorganized. Still being on the same corporate body, and it seemed the phone people could just arrange a collaboration with laptop people and got this out the door as a sendoff. The significance of that is, there were many rough edges to this phone because of that, such as: - Yes it physically has an Atom. No this isn't virtualization, two separate things on a single PCB. - No you can't split it in half. Both "sides" are quite co-mingled. - The phone side acts as a display-keyboard-webcam and USB modem. Takes display in, puts touch/keyboard out. - The phone is based on Symbian, but only in kernel and low-level stuff. Standard Fujitsu UI(MOAP-S). Not open to user modification at all. Kind of runs J2ME app? Maybe? - The display is, for incomprehensible reason, portrait locked by BIOS and software rotated by driver. Some unverifiable reports exist that you could modify and reflash the BIOS to fix it, but in case it didn't go well, it's as easy as desoldering and resoldering the modem chip on an iPhone. - The battery indicator hits zero at 30% real SoC or so, there's ton of reserve only usable by the phone side. But it's way undersized anyway; lasts all 30 minutes with Windows. - The iPod-Dock-like socket below keyboard is non-Apple version of that exact connector, only different in pin mapping and keying on the side. Coulple useful signals is on it such as USB D+/D-, HDMI, but not power out(there is +3V3 but for detection only, can't drive a peripheral) - This is a 3G phone; no LTE whatsoever. SIM unlock should be available for free though.

Fujitsu's tiny laptops in the early 2000's were the height of Japan Alt.Universe. The P2120 was my favourite. A tiny 1.5kg sub-notebook, 11" LCD and a DVD/CD-RW drive ! Bonkers Tech for 2003 !

bro this is like a prehistoric steam deck no wonder that japanese guy was screaming like "YOU CAN USE A PRINTER WITH THIS THING"

Nailing those arty shots again! Having a wife who can read Japanese usually helps when I'm trying to switch something to english! Great video.

Oh this phone, last time i saw it in person was maybe 6 years ago or so, some dude was showing how he could run japanese visual novels on it. Granted it didn't run that great since the phone was quite underpowered (you can tell by the message in 03:30 saying that the setup process could take up to a whole hour), but since visual novels are just character portraits and text 99% of the time, performance was irrelevant. I miss when phones tried this kind of weird stuff. Nowadays "PC mode" in phones is just android with a PC desktop skin and forcing you to connect to an external monitor.

i really want to see something like this made today. a device that can dualboot android and windows with the physical keyboard

Each video from you is absolute blast. This is serious content !

Absolutely fantastic initial and real review of an amazing phone.

This phone looks like a modernized version of the flip phones still in use in Japan. When I was using a flip phone in the company I work for in Japan, it had a same UI design but was running on android

Very cool, you should be able to create a batch file to do most if not all the commands required to install the language pack at the end.

I actually love the idea behind this.

Geographically limited HW, from the Japan Alt.Universe. That ad was AWESOME 👍

~ 2:20 when you were changing the language, i loved the unnecessary attention to detail they put by making it say 'Select Language' while in Japanese and wrote it in japanese while in English mode 😂

this phone was also released in mexico because of the really good business relationship between the countries

This is a great video. You need to keep making things like this

I've had this phone a few years back ( bought off eBay ) brand new.. I always wanted one, the experience was bad although windows was way too slow.. can't be windows and phone at the same time. Wouldn't run pretty much any native windows app because of the ram and processor... Loved the build quality and novelty of the device... Just not practical in any way shape form or fashion..

I would've loved to have this phone back in school, just to show to my school-mates that I indeed have a full windows computer in my pocket. back when I WAS in school, I had a windows tablet by HP that was 7 inches and I carried it EVERYWHERE and I loved that I could take a full computer with me, even though it didn't have a good keyboard or mouse situation, running windows 8. windows 10 ran a lot better on it though. my only real complaint was that it wasn't like an arm device where you could put it into sleep and still listen to music, and the only way of getting data in or out was either using a MicroSD card or a USB micro OTG adapter, and you had to keep any OTGing under the battery life because it only had one micro USB and a headphone jack. also yea my pockets were huge, I absolutely pocketed the thing.

Wow, some really cool niche hardware from the mid 2000s to early 2010s

Ignore what Mitch Mitchell said, honestly I liked that you included the long boot time, made it feel more natural and if he doesn't like it then it only takes 1 second to find where the video continues and skip to it. Great Content.

Nice phone and would be interesting to see how it compares to the Vaio UX. I finally got hold of a Samsung 30GB SDD for my Vaio UX and it works great. Runs Windows 7 well.

What a unique little device

Works just fine, thank you.

Damn that's fricking awesome.

This phone uses a few tricks that a lot of quick start OS PCs used, and now it honestly makes me wish Cathode Ray Dude would cover this phone, because this is rad as hell.

@Janus Cycle you'd mentioned in a comment below (about a year ago) that the Vaio UX runs great with a proper SSD. Did you ever do a video on that? If the LoE isn't too high, I think it'd be interesting to see a comparison vid on that (HDD vs. SSD on the UX).

this sir is doing everyone a favor, waiting :)

Would love to see a tear down as I have one of these little beauties….. but Before a tear down, Id love to know if it’s possible to install an English version of the OS or even windows 10??? BTW did u ever get the Toshiba micro drive spinning up? Xx

The Windows Phone we all deserve

That think is amazing and I love it.

I wish windows phone was still around it was so nice looking even today

I will Still love to use this 2022

so neat!! I want one

The best baseball games on older Sony hardware aren't one of the MLB licensed games from 2K or even from Sony's lauded first party "The Show" series. In my opinion it's actually Konami's NPB licensed "Pro Yakyuu Spirits". NPB is the Japanese League and Konami never bothered much with localizing the game for sale outside of Japan. Baseball is baseball; but to explore anything beyond an exhibition game you need to know how to read Japanese. I don't. So, when you held up your phone trying to translate menus to English on the fly, I felt that. I really liked this video. This Fujitsu, from a functionality standpoint, should've been the model for Windows Phones. I loved Windows Phones and the Metro UI, but, it was limited by software availability. Can you imagine a world where a Lumia had the Tiles for when you needed to do phone stuff and at the push of a button could switch to full-fat Windows 8/10. That would've went a long way to solving the whole "I don't have as many apps with Lumia as I have with iPhone" conundrum.

Something as unusable as this is definitely from a different era. Don't get me wrong, this is some mind-blowing engineering right here. But there is no way anyone would attempt anything similar nowadays. The closest we got are these relatively large Windows tablets things, but under a certain screen size and without a proper keyboard/mouse it just doesn't make sense to be running a desktop OS.

I'm guessing when the first boot happened and the setup thing happened, I think that was most likely a driver installation.

man, ima use this at whatever cost

Wonder if it has some kind peculiar drivers for peculiar devices on this phone that we could extract on windows 7 mode.

I wish there were more photos like this

had this phone back in the day

Even the Aero Peek is working, interesting.

Oh Fujitsu, such madlads

The fact that it runs way better than emulating windows on modern higher tier android phones is really nice

""We're in", 😆 Like a heist movie, but the thing we're breaking into is Win7

I liked my Windows phone in the US 12-13 years ago. It’s a shame they don’t still make them.

When I first heard about Windows Phone 7, I thought it was gonna be something like this. Boy, was I oh, so unbelievably wrong.

This is awesome

Love this

This is amazing 😳

companies should do this stuff again with modern OSes like windows 10 and 11 that has a touch screen interface.

imagine how well it would run on modern phones. i would buy it in a heartbeat.

The almost 5 minutes of Windows booting probably could've been cut down to _maybe_ 1 minute of video. It's pretty boring for viewers to wait _with you_ for a phone to boot. That said, this was a really fun video other than that, so thank you for posting!

Wow, It's amazing!!!!!!!

Wow, I didn't know that this phone runs Windows 7 or other operating systems, I thought there was only a PC/laptop for other operating systems. That's pretty surprising. :O

love your voice, it gives college professor vibe c:

This is my favorite niche of devices. Phones/handhelds with built-in Windows OSes.

THIS IS AMAZING WHERE CAN I BUY THIS?! ITS SO GOOD

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X86 was always a horrible idea for phones, but still glad a few manufacturers gave it a go as a consumer proof of concept if nothing else.

Not going to lie. I have a PSP that runs windows xp pro and windows vista ultimate and this thing, being newer, made it look like a rocket ship.

Okay, but can it run Purble Place

Ooh ooh what if we have a new android phone that you can use with a switch over button to launch windows or another os? Like I need to use an app on windows to edit something or do windows stuffs and after that returns to phone mode to do calls and messages too A modernized version of this one. And I'm super interested and will buy if theres one.

Does the front camera work as a webcam on windows 7?

It has an atom cpu with HT, 1gb of DD400 ram, and a 32gb SSD and was priced at $860. Similar netbooks were around $200-$400 or less On a different note, the HTCHD2 was release in 2009 and saw it’s end life around 2016 with android 6.0. For being shipped with windows phone 6.5 to android 6.0, it honestly was a very impressive device

Great video , keep windows 7 does USB input work for keyboard etc?

Old techs are something else.

ok i need 1 of these

This must have looked like a breakthrough idea on paper.

I wish i could have a useful arch and android dual boot on my phone ngl (and perhaps a slide out keyboard too but there are alternatives)

i have this beast. 15-20 mins in windows mode on battery ;-). Few more years and emulation will be faster than this 1ghz atom.

That outro music scared the hell out of me lmao 😂

In Italy we had a Samsung variant with Windows mobile, same hardware

this is cool af

A modern phone with an ARM SoC for the Android part and an Embedded Ryzen for the PC part would sell like hotcakes. Well, probably not since this is still very geeky but I know I'd buy one.

very cool !

So cool

I would have totally used one

I know it says windows 7 but that is definitely a modified version of Vista. About to go watch your Star Trek video on it.

it realy runs!

This is one of the coolest phones ever

The sudden Japanese ads at the beginning took me off guards lol, but I totally love it. Best unexpected content ever. I feel the KZfaq recommendation algorithm is playing some guru stuff here. It knows that I like the idea of installing/running computer OS's on phones, and it knows that I love Japanese and Japanese ads, so it shows me a video with all three combined! 💯 With that out of the way, it's totally cool to know that a Japanese company shipped a phone with the *desktop version* of Windows installed. My initial guess was that it runs Windows in some sort of a VM (like QEMU), since it might be too much trouble to get it to work natively. But I looked up the phone's specs and apparently it has a "dual hardware setup", where there exists an Intel Atom CPU with 1 GB RAM dedicated for booting up Windows, while the Symbian OS has its own hardware. So now I'm like, just wow. That's some really unique and neat engineering work. Super kudos to them on that. Also, while I'm kind of speculating here, but since IIRC Windows 7 did not even support Hyper-V (which is the component that allows the more recent versions of Windows to have multiple OSes booted up side-by-side), so it's quite possible that they made their own hypervisor infrastructure and then modded that Windows installation to work with it. The isolation between "Windows mode" and "Symbian mode" might also be important. You can't just have two OSes control hardware at the same time (Despite there being separate CPUs and RAM, they still share the same screen, keyboard, mouse, speakers, mic, external SD card slot, etc.), as this would cause chaos and destruction. The two OSes either need to be coordinating among each other (which necessitates a hypervisor component in both) or, if that does not exist, I suppose the only way (if you want to have them both run natively) would be to completely put one into sleep while the other works. In that case, there may not be even a "hypervisor component" in either of these OSes. Instead, the magic exists in the firmware, which controls both CPUs and takes care of performing a clean switch by putting one to sleep, (then possibly some intermediary steps like saving the state of peripheral devices and restoring their state that belongs to the other OS), and then awakening the other OS. This would imply that the firmware has its own little CPU and RAM as well, which would remain awake regardless of which side is currently running, and is responsible for performing a clean switch when the hardware Windows button on the side is pushed. There are various possibilities for how they implemented all of this, but they all have one thing in common, which is that it's pretty cool stuff lol. I feel like we could totally appreciate Fujitsu putting their hand in the global smartphone market. (Although they should do so with the same experimental mindset they have in the Japanese market. Since I know they sell laptops to the global market, and as far as I know, it's just regular laptops without any crazy features lol.)

What is the make and model of that phone?

Man if they made a modern version Like switch to windows 11 And the phone would be bigger Man it would be the best

There are no ARM builds of Windows 7, so does this have an x86 Intel Atom in it???

I really want one

Holy damn I this is my new dream phone-

i need one but they're probably so expensive and rare rn

You can actually feel his frustration from the way he breathes and those scratches.

So this phone is a mini win 7 pc I wonder how much this phone goes for on ebay?

3:19 When using Windows 7 mode for the first time, setup is required. ●Continue charging by connecting the AC adapter etc. until setup is complete. ●During setup, all functions that require communication, such as receiving calls and emails, will not be available. ●You cannot switch to mobile mode during setup. ●Setup takes approximately 60 minutes. To start setup, press [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[P]. *To return to mobile mode without setup, press the [Windows Switch Key].

If this was LGR, he would have tried to run Duke Nukem 3D on it.

Omg I want one so bad 😊

3:14 I see a option to boot to the Boot Menu. Please elaborate.

Completely off topic, but why do you sound exactly like that red guy from Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared?

Whats the app called u used to translate the japanase?

How does the phone run an x86 operating system even though it has an ARM cpu? Is it using some sort of emulation?

Will heroes III of might and magic run smooth?

Holy mother of God do you have a link for that ad

YES THE FAMOUS WINDOWS 7 SOUND 9:34