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Sharp 3D smartphone launches for US, India & China tipped for 2011

Chris Davies, Nov 17th 2010 Discuss [0]

Sharp has been dropping hints about its 3D smartphone intentions, revealing that the company's glasses-free 3.8-inch 3D display - which the company previewed at IFA 2010 - will not only be hitting Japanese devices next month but, in 2011, phones in the US, India and China. Sharp didn't tell The Mainichi Daily News which exact devices would be getting an overseas launch, but we're guessing they'll resemble the Japanese models for NTT DoCoMo and Softbank. Read The Full Story

Sharp BD-HP90 3D Blu-ray Player Lands in Japan November 20th

Evan Selleck, Nov 5th 2010 Discuss [0]

Yesterday, Sharp announced that the company's GALAPAGOS mobile phones would be getting 3D gaming, courtesy of Capcom and others, but that's not all the 3D love the company has in store for the future. Sharp has officially unveiled their brand new BD-HP90 3D Blu-ray player as well, packing plenty of features into an extremely small package. Read The Full Story

Softbank’s Sharp GALAPAGOS 003SH & 005SH get Capcom 3D gaming

Chris Davies, Nov 4th 2010 Discuss [1]

Sharp's GALAPAGOS range isn't just about big ereader tablets; the company has just unveiled two new Softbank Android smartphones, the GALAPAGOS 003SH and 005SH, which each offer glasses-free 3D on their 3.8-inch WVGA touchscreen displays. The 003SH has a 9.6-megapixel camera, while the 005SH has an 8-megapixel camera but makes up for the shortfall with a slide-out four row QWERTY keyboard. Read The Full Story

Sharp IS01 Android MID hits US for $246

Chris Davies, Oct 28th 2010 Discuss [3]

Sharp's 5-inch Android MID, the IS01, has finally made it to US shores, though it's not quite the perfect release we were hoping for. Importer Conics are doing the honors, rather than Sharp itself: they've listed the clamshell handset for a mere $246, which gets you a 5-inch 960 x 480 capacitive touchscreen, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS and twin cameras. Read The Full Story

Sharp’s 330-Inch LCD Screen Heading to Tokyo Station

Evan Selleck, Oct 25th 2010 Discuss [1]

Back in June, Sharp announced a brand new 60-inch LCD display that, while still having an impressive screen, also focused on the display's bezel. The company focused on it so much in fact, that they did their best to get rid of it entirely. The result was a display with a width of only 2.4mm on the right and bottom sides of the display, and a width of 4.1mm on the left and top sides. Sharp did this so that if you set up the displays in a multi-display situation, you'd get only 6.5mm of space. And now, Sharp is ready to show off eighteen of the displays all at once. Read The Full Story

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Tablets: A Prescription for Confusion

Chris Davies, Oct 24th 2010 Discuss [29]

“It appears to be just a handful of credible entrants” said Apple CEO Steve Jobs on iPad rivals, “not exactly an avalanche.” It’s certainly been a shaky few weeks for tablets in general; while Apple’s slate can apparently do little wrong, contributing nicely to another record financial quarter for the Cupertino company, the rest of the market is looking deeply troubled. Qualms over platforms, sizes, pricing and usability have all come to a head over the past seven days, leaving manufacturers looking almost as confused as the would-be consumers.

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Sharp axe PC business in favor of Galapagos tablets

Chris Davies, Oct 22nd 2010 Discuss [0]

Sharp has announced it plans to cease its PC manufacturing arm, instead focusing on what the company has described as their "unique blend of hardware and content delivery" in the ereader business. It's been a slow-burner in the PC industry anyway; most recent devices have been MIDs or tablets, such as the Galapagos ereader slates Read The Full Story

Sharp AQUOS BD-AV70 35mm-thick 3D Blu-ray recorder arrives Dec 1

Chris Davies, Oct 21st 2010 Discuss [0]

Sharp Japan has announced a release date for what it claims is the thinnest 3D-capable Blu-ray recorder, the Sharp AQUOS BD-AV70. Measuring just 35mm high, the AV70 can squeeze up to 87 hours of video onto a single BDXL disc, and will arrive in Japan on December 1 2010. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Week in Review – Week 40 2010

Shane McGlaun, Oct 10th 2010 Discuss [0]

Another week come and gone and another Week in Review is here for your perusal. Verizon Wireless has started to refund customers money that it overcharged for wireless access. The charges apparently went on for years and the refunds will cost Verizon about $90 million. Read The Full Story

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Sharp Galapagos video demos

Chris Davies, Oct 7th 2010 Discuss [2]

Sharp brought along their duo of Android-based ereader tablets, the 10.8-inch Sharp Galapagos Home and 5.5-inch Sharp Galapagos Mobile, to CEATEC 2010 this week, and SlashGear Japan stopped by to see if the prototypes were up to scratch. Thankfully Sharp still have a couple of months before the slates’ December launch in Japan, since right now the custom UI is sluggish and some navigation – such as multitouch gestures – can be painfully slow.

Video demos after the cut

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Sharp Demonstrates 64-Inch Prototype LCD Display at CEATEC

Evan Selleck, Oct 4th 2010 Discuss [0]

CEATEC is happening right now in Japan, and will be an ongoing presence in the region for the next few days. It's another electronics trade show where companies all over the world can showcase their latest and greatest, as well as plenty of prototypes of things they'd love to get out into the market. Sharp managed to make the high-definition market shake a bit, as they successfully demonstrated a 64-inch LCD prototype display, featuring a resolution of 4096 x 2160. Read The Full Story

Sharp IS03 Android phone packs 9.6MP camera, matches iPhone 4 display

Chris Davies, Oct 4th 2010 Discuss [2]

Apple's Retina Display for the iPhone 4 and latest iPod touch may have been leaving WVGA Android smartphones in the shade, but it was only a matter of time before the open-souce alternatives caught up. Sharp has just announced the IS03, headed to Japanese carrier KDDI in November, with a 3.5-inch 960 x 640 capacitive touchscreen, 1GHz Snapdragon processor and 9.6-megapixel camera with flash. Read The Full Story