Fujitsu F-07C Windows 7 Phone to Launch in Japan

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We earlier write about Fujitsu’s plan to release a phone that runs Windows 7. Yes, you read that right. Not WP7, but rather the full Windows 7 implementation. Fujitsu has just announced that this smartphone will be released over the weekend.

Fujitsu’s F-07C smartphone will actually come with two operating systems: Symbian and Windows 7 Home Premium. In Windows mode, the phone can run on battery power in just about two hours. That’s not too much for a smartphone, but considering the F-07C runs a desktop operating system and can run Internet Explorer 9, Windows Media Player and Microsoft Silverlight, that’s just about the same battery performance you can get on a netbook with a small battery.

If you don’t need the processing power, the F-07C has a phone mode, which gives you 6 hours of talk time or 600 hours of standby time in a single charge.

The Fujitsu F-07C comes with the following features:

• Intel Atom Z600 processor running at 1.2 GHz
• QWERTY keyboard
• Trackball and mouse button
• 4-inch capacitive touchscreen running at 1024×600 pixels
• 1GB RAM
• 32GB storage
• 5.1 megapixel camera

If you ask us, the Fujitsu F-07C looks like one of those ultraportable Windows machines from old. Personally, I’d rather use a mobile OS for a smartphone, and switch to my notebook or netbook if I actually need to run Windows. But if you want the best of both worlds, then this Fujitsu might just make the grade. You can even connect a mouse, keyboard and display through the phone’s USB and HDMI ports. How’s that for portable computing?

NTT DoCoMo will release the Fujitsu F-07C by July 23 with a price of about $860.