Those of you who are missing out on CEATAC Japan should enjoy this shot of Sharp’s new NetWalker PC-Z1. The photo isn’t much to give it scale, but let’s just say it is the missing link between smartphone and netbook.

It has a five inch touchscreen and full QWERTY keyboard. It also has an optical pointer, 4 gigabytes of memory, microSD memory, 10 hour battery life, and a USB port. It is scheduled for release in late October for a price of $500, but it will probably be a Japanese only release.

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While the solar-powered trend hasn’t really caught on here in the States yet, it’s all the rage in Japan. This spurr of interest has lead NTT DoCoMo to announce the Sharp solar-powered SH-08A, pictured above.

This device will apparantly withstand submersion in water up to a meter and will feature a VGA display, an 8MP camera and 7.2Mbps HSDPA. As for the solar capabilities, you’ll reportedly get 1 minute of talk time for every 10 minutes in the sun. Hey, it’s not much but it’s certainly something.

NTT DoCoMo says that the handset will go on sale in Japan sometime this September.

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Well sure it’s a Microsoft phone you’ll say, it will run some sort of Windows Mobile version on it! That’s true but what I mean is that the phone appears to be Microsoft-branded. Could this Pink smartphone project be the first Microsoft phone? Microsoft denied more than once that it’s working on an own mobile device but what if that changed?

Sure maybe Microsoft will not call it a Zune phone in which case the company was awfully right when declaring that no Zune phone is going to be created soon. The Pink phone is said to run on Windows Mobile 7 and we can expect some sort of custom UI on top of the regular OS. Pink is also said to be a Sidekick-like phone and it could be manufactured by Sharp or Motorola. Unfortunately we don’t have any hot details about it!

A lot of questions come to mind but we shall leave them unanswered for now. We’ll be waiting for someone to leak that Pink-related ad campaign that Microsoft is reportedly working on.

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Looking for a new camera phone? Sharp has just launched one. The AQUOS SHOT 933SH will offer you an impressive 10 megapixel low-noise CCD sensor, a rotating 3.3-inch touchscreen WVGA display which comes in handy while taking all those pictures and global roaming capability. Ready to get that one? Well head on over to SoftBank Mobile in Japan and get yours this summer.

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Fractus is a Spanish company which you haven’t really gotten to know so far. Now it’s time for it’s moment of glory! Fractus has decided to sue not one, not two, but ten mobile phone manufacturers which apparently have infringed not one, not two, but nine different patents which concern internal antennas.

These manufacturers are: Samsung, LG Electronics, Research In Motion, HTC, Palm, Pantech, Sharp, Kyocera, Sanyo and UTStarcom. And Fractus is a company which holds more than 80 patents worldwide, 30 of them right in the United States. The suit was filed in the USA and we’ll just have to wait and see what happens next. Fractus’s lawyer said:

It is very brave of Fractus to fight against these cell phone companies, many of whom knew about Fractus and its technology yet still continued to infringe. Fractus’s inventions have added tremendous value to both the cell phone user and manufacturer.

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The device in the picture is more special than others. It is water-resistant and solar-powerd and it will arrive in Japan this June from KDDI. Sharp is the maker and we might expect it to make similar phones in the near future.

KDDI says that as little as 10 minutes of sun absorption will get you two hours of standby or about a minute of talk time. So what would exactly happen at night? No more phone calls? The sun can charge the 80% of the battery which sounds pretty good. That’s a great device for those people that always forget their chargers. All they would need will be some decent sunlight.

How much would you pay for such a phone? Prices and availability dates haven’t been officially announced yet.

via KDDI

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You know it’s coming, I know it’s coming, everyone knows it’s coming. The Sidekick LX will arrive on May 13 from T-Mobile. And that’s final. You’ll have to pay $199 with a 2-year agreement if you want it. And let’s go over the specs one more time now that we have a price for the device:

• 3.2-inch 854×480 resolution Sharp F-WVGA screen
• Integrated Facebook MySpace and Twitter
• GPS
• GPS-powered Live Search
• 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera with improved video capabilities
• Microsoft Exchange support
• T-Mobile 3G/HSDPA
• colors: carbon and orchid

Hit us up with your comments. Are you excited or what?

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Are you waiting for the new Sidekick? T-Mobile is going to launch it as soon as the FCC has given its approval. That’s right the phone has hit the FCC. In case you will be looking for it you should check for the Sharp PV300, which is the other name of the Sidekick. The phone will have support for T-Mobile’s 3G network as it is certified for AWS 3G. Sidekick fans should be really excited right now, but we still need confirmations before we start celebrating the release of a new T-Mobile Sidekick.

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NTT DoCoMo will have a new Sharp phone coming out soon, the SH-04. The phone is going to have both a 3.5-inch touchscreen and a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard to help you finish up your workload while you’re traveling. Other specs include a wide-angle 1.35 megapixels 29mm lens and a few camera-friendly features meant to help you take some decent pictures while on the go. The phone will be available in white, black and pink gold starting with February 20. By that time we might get all its other specs and pricing details.

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Sharp has a new phone ready for KDDI. This time is the SH-001 which will bring you a high-definition 8.1 megapixel sensor. Other features that will please the photographer in you are autofocus and Face recognition,and an ISO range of up to 2500. How big is it? Just 111 × 48 × 16.6mm.

As for the phone features, the SH-001 comes with Global Passport CDMA support and in order to improve your phone call experience there are various features like noise-canceling, Talk Slow and Clear Voice. The clamshell phone will be available in Japan only for now, and we have no idea if it will be ever land in other markets. No news on arrival dates and prices either!

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The FCC has approved another Sharp phone, the 932SH. Unfortunately this baby will go to SoftBank in Japan for now and it might not even get to see the light of day in other markets.

Nevertheless, let’s give its specs a look:

• WCDMA 2000MHz
• triband GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz
• Bluetooth 2.0
• 3.27 inch FWGA ASV main backlit LCD
• 60×32, monochrome EL secondary display
• 8 megapixel camera
• VGA-CMOS camera for video-calls
• 800 mAh battery
• USB connectivity
• microSD slot.

That’s about all the info we could dig up so far so we’re still waiting for launch dates and prices for the 932SH.

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The FCC has given the go ahead to a new Sharp phone. It’s the 831SH model. Here are some of its features:

• WCDMA 2000MHz
• triband GSM 900/1800/1900MHz
• 2.98 inch external 240×400 WQVGA backlit display
• 0.8 inch internal OLED display
• 3.2 megapixel with Auto Focus camera
• 710mAh Li-Ion battery
• standby time: WCDMA 310h / GSM 280h
• talk time: WCDMA 230min. / GSM 210min
• Size: 48.0(W) x 105.0(D) x 17.3(H)mm
• Weight: 110g
• USB connectivity
• miniSD card slot
• 3G via WCDMA
• no Bluetooth

Well there you have it folks. All we need now are some decent pictures if anybody has them and a price leak. People say the 831SH model will be similar to the 930SH clamshell phone from Sharp. Any carrier looking forward to pick this phone up? Anyone in Asia?

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Sharp Incorporation China, entered the New Year 2009 with the release of its latest GSM mobile. The Sharp SH810C GSM Handset offers enormous 8 Mega-Pixel picture strength to shoot 854×480 high resolution images. The 3.0-inch AVS LCD Mobile display delivers unbelievable picture quality. No disclosure about the price has been made however; Sharp SH810C will soon be available for purchase in the Chinese Markets.

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Sharp’s got another phone approved recently by the FCC. The Sharp WX-T923 is the company’s latest phone to be offered to the public. The WX-T923 will be Taiwan and China’s version of Sharp’s 923SH.

The phone features a high-resolution 3.3″ Widescreen VGA LCD with Advanced One Seg Function. A powerful color rendering backlight and about 16.77 million colors enables the WX-T923 to produce beautiful images with natural and accurate coloration on its 3.3″ Widescreen VGA LCD. The catch-up playback feature enhances enjoyment of One Seg by enabling video playback from the point where you started recording as continue recording.

Included with the phone is a high-performance 5.2 megapixel auto-focus camera. A range of features such as face priority auto focus, blur prevention and widescreen VGA camcorder allow you to take beautiful images easily.

Sharp WX-T923 Features:
-3.3″ Widescreen VGA LCD
-5.2 Megapixel Camera
-Digital TV (One Seg)
-Media Player
-microSDHC Memory Card (sold separately)*4
-Bar (QR) Code Reader
-Bluetooth
-IrDA
-Simple Mode
-PC Site Browser
-Global Roaming Service
-3G High Speed
-PC Mail
-Graphic Mail
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DoCoMo has presented a new cellphone for their Winter Collection, that comes with a great pack of features which are rare to see in current handsets.

Entitled SH-01A, it is made by Sharp and comes with a 3.3-inch VGA (Aquos) LCD screen that is able to provide a top-notch 16:9 video viewing mode. The screen is also good enough to watch TV on the go thanks to the 1Seg TV Tuner. In terms of multimedia, the DoCoMo mobile phone has a 8-megapixel camera with face detection function, and can playback audio + video files.

If those features are not enough, maybe GPS and Virtual 5.1ch Dolby Mobile (for good sound) will please your needs?

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Sharp introduced a new Aquos cellphone named Fulltouch 931SH, that will most likely only be available for purchase in the Asian market, in Japan to be more exact.

The Fulltouch 931SH sports an unusual screen size and resolution that is rare to see in today’s handsets, we’re talking about a 3.8-inch touchscreen that can provide 1024×480 pixels as the resolution. You’ll quickly find a netbook with those settings instead of a cellphone…

Anyhow, the latest Sharp Aquos addition includes 1-Seg Tuner to watch TV on the go, a good 5.2-megapixel camera, a normal music player, and bluetooth. Extras include a 3G connection and RFID functionality.

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We have four of the Japan’s finest companies that decided to play together in order to create a SH-Mobile G4 single-chip LSI device. Wow, that’s so cool, I will want two or three of those!

Seriously speaking, NTT DoCoMo, Renesas, Fujitsu and Sharp are working on a handset which will have GSM/GPRS/EDGE support and HSUPA/HSDPA/W-CDMA standards. The Japanese companies are getting ready a cell phone that’s going to offer HSUPA speeds of up to 5.7Mbps and HSDPA speeds of up to 7.2Mbps. The devices will come with 45-nm processors, 3D graphics support, HD support and more. The SH-Mobile G4 will arrive in 2010, which is a long long time from now. Maybe too long!

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The Asian market has most of the good stuff when it comes to newly released phones. This time the FCC or the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has approved another new model from Sharp - however, as of the moment, the phone is only going to be released for the Taiwan market.

The FCC document included photographs, descriptions and functions of the new Sharp WX-T825 3G mobile phone.

Known technical characteristics Sharp WX-T825:

Support communications standards: WCDMA 2000, GSM 900/1800/1900 GPRS Class 10
Dimensions: 49 h102, 9h16, 7 mm
Weight: 112 grams.
Support for wireless technology Bluetooh v2.0 + EDR
Display: 2.8 widescreen - inch, TFT (ASV), resolution 240 h400, displaying more than 262 thousand colors
Camera: 2 MP, CMOS
Battery: Li-Ion, 700 mA / h
Support microSD memory card format
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We have seen some pretty impressive Sharp handsets adorn NTT DoCoMo’s lineup and the SH706iw continues the tradition with some features that should sound droolworthy elsewhere in the world too. This slider has an expansive 3-inch VGA 480×854-pixel display and a touchpad for smoother interaction. You will also find Dolby Mobile sound system to complement that big, beautiful touchscreen with other usual goodies like 1Seg TV tuner and microSD/SDHC support, but the camera comes as a disappointment with only a 2-megapixel lens, while the previous model had climbed up to 3.2 megapixels. Being 3G capable, the SH706iw can handle 3G calls for 195 minutess, video calls for up to 105 minutes with a standby time of 490 hours.

The lucky Japanese won’t have to wait long as the Sharp SH706iw will be available from NTT DoCoMo starting September 1 at a price that hasn’t been revealed yet.
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NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile service provider in Japan, has released another brand new phone from Japanese consumer electronic manufacturer Sharp - the Sharp FOMA SH706i Phone. The FOMA SH706i phone has a 3 inch wide VGA, 2 megapixel camera, 1seg, DOLBY mobile and a full slide style design. This phone is part of DoCoMo’s summer 2008 models and was design specifically for ease of use in mind. The phone is available in 3 different colors: Aqua green, black and pink.

Sharp SH706i Specifications:

-106 x 48 x 16.1 mm
-106 grams
- 2.8 inches (240 x 400 dots)
- Wide QVGA 262,144 colors
- microSD (2GB) memory card (optional)
- CMOS with AF
- 3.2 megapixels

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