A new Fujitsu Lifebook has been spotted!

The Lifebook series of laptop computers is one of those rare exceptions to the rule “every notebook is manufactured in China”, and the slogan used by these products doesn’t leave any doubt about this - “Made in Japan. World Class.”.

The Fujitsu Lifebooks are some of the smallest notebooks available, and the entire range is known in its country of origin as “BIBLIO”. Since these days you can’t just become the best and forget about progress, Fujitsu follows the flow of the market and makes its ultraportables even better…

According to Bruce Ford, a reader of GottaBeMobile.com, the new Lifebook from Fujitsu, codenamed “Helios”, can be seen at 3GSM Trade Fair in Barcelona, an event that’s going to end tomorrow. Although its pictures show a device almost completely covered, a press release from Fujitsu issued today seems to uncover some interesting things about the upcoming ultraportable…

The “Helios” is going to be “the first notebook to support the new UTMS standard HSUPA (High Speed Upload Package Access)”, so it’s going to have HSDPA and HSUPA integrated, that support transfer speeds of 7.2Mbit/s for download and 1.4Mbit/s for upload.

Since no technical data has been put forward by Fujitsu, we can do nothing but think about what’s most probable to find under this little monster’s hood - a new CPU from Intel, obviously, and all that comes with it, but the interesting thing is the inclusion - or not - of an optical disk drive into this tiny computer that is estimated to have a weight between 1 and 2kgs.

Anyway, leaving the speculations aside, one thing seems to be certain - the new Lifebook is going to be released pretty soon, so stay tuned, because we’ll let you know when this happens in an instant!

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