The Sharp NJ70A laptop that was released a few months ago for the Asian market, has received some upgrades and can now be considered much better, because it has an Optical Sensor LCD Pad to work with Windows 7.

As stated before, this netbook is sold in the Asian market, more specifically in Japan, and inside the small beast you can find an Atom N720 processor, a hard-drive with 160GB of storage capacity, and 1GB of memory RAM. In addition to the good operative system - Windows 7 - you also get an Intel 945GSE Express for the graphics card, and a 10-1 inch monitor.

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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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Tags: Cell Phones, Japan, Mobile News, NTT DoCoMo, NTT DoCoMo, sh-08a, Sharp, Sharp, solar-powered

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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Recently, Japanese cellular provider KDDI released a Sharp waterproof, solar-powered cell phone, rumored to be renamed the SH002. Growing interest in both photovoltaic power as a green and clean source of energy and solar-powered devices has encouraged Sharp to globally release its new LR0GC02 solar module for mobile devices.

The LR0GC02 solar panel uses compact semiconductor packaging technology, which aids in keeping the panel thickness to a mere 0.8 mm. Sharp claims this is the thinnest level in the industry. The solar cells in the module are based on polycrystalline silicon and produce a top power of 300 milliwatts (mW). As an supplemental power source for mobile devices, the panel is designed to help save energy.

Tags: KDDI, LR0GC02, mobile, Mobile News, module, panel, Sharp, solar

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.

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Tags: KDDI, Mobile News, Sharp, Sharp, Water-resistant

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?

Tags: Mobile News, Sharp, Sharp, sidekick lx, T-Mobile, T-Mobile

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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Tags: Japan, Mobile News, NTT DoCoMo, SH-04, Sharp, Sharp

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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Tags: 8 megapixel, camera phone, Japan, KDDI, Mobile News, SH-001, Sharp, Sharp

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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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!

Tags: Fujitsu, Fujitsu, HSDPA, HSUPA, NTT DoCoMo, NTT DoCoMo, Other Brands, Renesas, Sharp, Sharp

CEATEC is a popular IT & Electronics Exhibition that takes place in Japan, and the latest 2008 edition was one week ago - from 30 September to 4 October. One of the cutting-edge devices presented at the expo came from Sharp, and it is named Softbank 9225H.

The handset is a bit strange in terms of design, but in the inside you can find a full QWERTY keyboard which isn’t very common to see in this type of phones.

On the list of specifications the Sharp Softbank 9225H offers 1seg TV tuner, a 2-megapixel camera, a 3.5-inch VGA (internal) screen, a multimedia player, a microSDHC slot to store all the audio and video data, and lastly, e-mail functionality.

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If Facebook doesn’t have anymore secrets to you anymore, you must have discovered the LifeChangingBox FaceBook game promoted by Lowe New York a while ago. For about a month, from June to July people had to guess what the product inside the Life Changing Box was. And it proved to be Sharp. Some lucky winners went home with thousands of dollars worth in prizes. And that was just the begining of Sharp’s Life Changing promotion

As you can see in the video Sharp will continuously work to offer us a better LCD experience as they have quite a few years of LCD innovation. Besides that Sharp will work on including solar energy in their production lines so here’s another company thinking eco-friendly thoughts.

And since Sharp is the HDTV official of Major League Baseball you might want to try one of their LCD’s to get the full Olympic action coming from China starting tomorrow. Any sports action will certainly run smoothly on a Sharp LCD.

Now I am only sorry for not getting that much Sharp Facebook time… Not that I would have ever guessed who was in the box!

Tags: lcd, Portable Devices, Projectors, Sharp, sports