The Japanese version of the Fujitsu U2010/U820 has gotten a little bump in processing power thanks to a 2GHz Atom CPU. Chippy used a variant of the Fujitsu U [Portal page] to great success on a trip recently and really seemed to enjoy the device. A slight bump in processing power onto a device that Chippy describes as, “…HQ from the screen to the well thought-out control buttons and excellent efficiency”, can’t be a bad thing. The 2GHz variant of the Fujitsu U has the catchy name of ‘FMVLUC50N’ and isn’t yet official in other parts of the world, but you can get it through importers like Conics. Stop by jkk’s link below for some additional images.

[jkkmobile]

Just like the Kohjinsha SC3, the Fujitsu U2010 is a mini, no, tiny notebook PC running on the new Intel Menlow platform. JKKMobile and UMPCFever have reported the specifications (now in the database) and I’ve been looking over them.

Firstly, the screen is an amazing 1280×800 which is the same pixel density as a Sony UX UMPC. It’s high, but useful. You can always bump the font sizes up if you need to.

Secondly, the battery life is quoted as 3.5hrs under Bapco MobileMark 2007 Productivity. As far as I can tell, that means Wifi-off, low screen brightness and some office application work. 3.5 hours isn’t bad. Probably 30 minutes more than the Kohjinsha SC3 under those conditions. If the Wifi module is good, that means 3hrs browsing time which is much more than the SC3 will achieve.

Update: Looks like I was spot on with the battery life. See this report.

It looks tempting with it’s very light weight (610gm) fingerprint reader and dual memory card slots Local street price in Hong Kong is said to be $1350 though which is a lot more than the SC3. Willcom D4 vs Fuji U2010 vs SC3 fight anyone?