While others obsess over fingers, Fujitsu wants your palms instead. Going against the flow, it plans to employ palm-vein scanning on smartphones in the future. The company, who is one of its few, if not the only, commercial evangelists, believes the technology to be more secure and reliable than TV's favorite metacarpal.
Fujitsu has announced that it has developed an interesting sounding prototype haptic sensory tablet. The haptic sensory tablet is able to provide a sense of slipperiness or roughness when you touch the screen depending on the image being displayed. The technology behind that sensory experience was developed by Fujitsu Laboratories.
Fujitsu has unveiled its latest computer model called the Lifebook TH90/P convertible ultrabook. The machine has a 13.3-inch high-resolution screen that folds and turns around allowing the user to adjust the screen to the most comfortable and useful position for use. That screen also supports touch input and digital pen input.
Biometric security in and of itself is nothing new, but Fujitsu has launched a laptop that takes a new spin on an old idea. The Fujitsu Celsius H730 laptop is the first of its kind to offer palm-based vein authentication, with the laptop's security elements scanning the otherwise invisible vein pattern in one's hand, which is unique to every person.
Fujitsu has unveiled several new notebook computers this week including the Lifebook T904 two-in-one convertible. The ultrabook features a 13.3-inch display with a resolution of 2560 x 1440. The high-resolution screen has a contrast ratio of 1000:1 and a brightness rating of 350 cd/m2.
Fujitsu is refreshing its FMV Series lineup with four PCs, three of them in the Lifebook laptops and one Esprimo desktop PC. All four of the PCs are slated to be launched this month after a week apart from each other, starting with the desktop computer on June 7 and ending with the last Lifebook on June 28. No word yet on the prices.
With the difficulty my mom and dad have operating basic flip phones, I shudder to think of what they would do if I placed an iPhone or a new Android device in their hands. Many older people out there don't want complicated, high-end smartphones, they want something that's simple to use and just makes phone calls. Orange has just such a device for older people from Fujitsu called the Stylistic S01.
Smartphones are a lot of things -- convenient, powerful, and feature-rich. They're also exceedingly complicated to many older users who are accustomed to 12-button panels and curly phone cords. This past summer, Fujitsu revealed that its Raku Raku smartphone, a handset designed specifically for senior citizens, would be arriving in Japan via NTT Docomo. Now the company, facing a saturated market in Japan, is branching out and will launch the handset in the United States and Europe.
Welcome to Friday evening everyone. The weekend is about to kick off, but luckily for us, it's chosen to wait patiently while we recap the news. We heard today that the Samsung Galaxy S IV may ship in April with S-Pen functionality, which is exciting for all of us who love the Galaxy Note II. Speaking of the Galaxy Note II, we saw a leaked press shot of the handset in black today, while Instagram use was seen surging on iOS and Android but taking a hit on Facebook.
Windows 8 has garnered its share of criticisms in the last few months, and some of that criticism has come from Microsoft's PC partners. Some of them aren't too happy with the way Windows 8 has been supposedly selling, with the latest in the line being Fujitsu. Today the company revised projections for the fiscal year that ends in March, saying that total PC shipments will come in under the 7 million the company was originally planning on.
Fujitsu's Windows 8 touchscreen strategy isn't solely centered on tablets; the company also has a 23-inch all-in-one PC, the Esprimo X913-T, which uses ultrasonics to figure out if you're paying attention. The desktop offers Intel Core i3-3220T or Core i5-3470T processors and up to 16GB of memory, as well as a 1920 x 1080 display with 10-point multitouch for navigating through Windows 8's Live Tile UI.
Fujitsu is talking tablets again, and specifically how Windows 8 plays nicely with its touchscreen line-up that now includes the Stylistic Q572. The 10.1-inch Windows 8/Windows 8 Pro slate joins the Stylistic Q702 and Lifebook T902 first announced earlier this year, with an AMD dualcore Z-60 APU processor and 4GB of memory, along with Radeon HD 6250 graphics.