Realtek has announced that upcoming Fujitsu notebooks will feature Wireless USB built right into the system. Realtek knows this since the company is providing the chips to enable support within the notebooks. No word on which specific models will have Wireless USB but the systems will supposedly be available in the U.S. and in Europe.

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Fujifilm launched their latest high end point-and-shoot digital camera in the form of the FinePix A850. Featuring an 8 megapixel CCD sensor, 3x optical zoom lens, and ISO 800 support, the A850 joins the existing A920 and A900 lineup of digital cameras from Fujifilm.

Features of the A850 include:

• 8.1 megapixel
• 3x optical zoom lens
• 2.5 inch LCD monitor
• 24MB of internal memory
• Operates on two AA batteries
• 14 selectable scene modes
• Movie recording with sound
• Icon-based GUI
• Picture stabilization

The Fujfilm FinePix A850 will be available starting in July – no word on pricing as of yet.

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DoCoMo introduced a new Fujitsu manufactured mobile phone last week called the Raku Ralu F884i. The key feature to this 3G phone is a speech to text function which transcribes your spoken words into digital text. Not exactly new but certainly a useful functionality assuming it works. Other features include:

• 1Seg TV Tuner
• Whopping 3.1 inch display with a resolution of 240 x 432
• HSDPA support
• 3.2 megapixel digital camera
• Measurement of 109×50x20mm and weight of 140 grams

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If you’ve got a thing for wooden objects, check out this Fujitsu notebook – the FMV-Biblo NX95Y/D. Yes.. it’s in a wooden case and it’s on display at Japan Design 2008 Innovation in Milan, Italy. No word on specs but does it really matter?

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I’m going to switch gears a bit and check out the Mobile Internet Devices section at the Intel CES 2008 booth where they had a number of small ultra-mobile and ultra-mobile like PCs one display. Enjoy the photo gallery! (I’ll try and provide specs where I can)

Sorry but I’m not sure what the above systems are. Could be reference designs for all I know.

Here are pictures of the Fujitsu Mini-Notebook system (most likely the U810). If it is the U810, then the specs are as follows:

• Intel Processor A110 running at 800 MHz
• Windows Vista or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005
• 5.6 inch WSVGA Crystal View touch screen display
• Touch or pen input
• QWERTY keyboard
• Built in wireless LAN, Bluetooth, and Ethernet support
• Integrated fingerprint reader and BIOS lock
• 1GB RAM
• 40GB HDD

The left system is the Samsung Q1 Ultra which features:

• Windows Vista or Windows XP
• Split QWERTY keyboard
• Lithium Ion Prismatic batteries
• 1024 x 600 resolution display with back lit LCD
• Optional HSDPA cellular modem
• Integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
• Ethernet support
• Integrated video chat camera and integrated dual array microphone

The right system is the HTC Shift which features:

• Support for Microsoft Direct Push technology
• Windows Vista OS
• 7 inch touch screen display (800 x 840 resolution)
• Wi-Fi and 3G wireless support
• Screen slides out and tilts up
• QWERTY keyboard
• Fingerprint sensor
• Mouse buttons and microPad
• UMTS and HSDPA support
• Bluetooth 2.0 support
• USB 2.0
• Intel Stealey 800MHz processor
• 1GB RAM
• 1.8 inch 40 or 60GB HDD
• Measures 207 x 129 x 25 mm

Here are additional pics of the Samsung Q1 Ultra:

One of the cooler looking ultra-mobile PC’s on display at the Intel booth was a prototype system from Lenovo pictured below.  This system is based on the new Intel “Menlow” platform which utilizes a new Intel processor code-named “Silverthorne” and a new chipset code-named “Poulsbo”.  No other details were given about the Lenovo UMPC but enjoy the pics!

Finally, we have some additional pics of other mobile devices. One appears to be a WiBro branded UMPC but it’s not clear what the model is and one definitely is the Samsung Q1 Ultra again. Enjoy!

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AVING USA has pictures of the new Fujitsu “ScanSnap S300″ mobile scanner taken at the CES 2008 Unveiled New York Press Review. Features of the S300 include the following:

• World’s smallest duplex ADF scanner
• Captures both sides of documents at the press of “Scan”
• Automatically recognizes sizes of each document
• Automatically converts scanned data into searchable PDF files
• Half the size of other ScanSnap scanners
• Double Sided Multi-Sheet Feeding – holds up to 10 sheets of paper in the automatic document feeder
• Scans at up to 8 pages per minute
• Operates on USB power
• De-skews images, removes blank pages, and shows pages in the proper orientation
• Scans business cards and postcards that are thicker than normal – up to 56 lb

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