Video: Sharp Aquos something or other

An Android clamshell? Yup, this upcoming Sharp phone on the Japanese Softbank network is a bit unexpected, but clamshells are big business in Japan so it fits in well with the market.

As for the name.. well, the original press releases are mostly in Japanese so it's some sort of combination of the words "Sharp", "Aquos", "Phone", "Hybrid", "The".. or you could simply call it the Softbank 007SH as Japanese carriers tend to rename the phone when they sell it anyway.

Oh yes.. it has a 16 megapixel camera, it's waterproof and runs Android 2.3. Nice.

Sharp Lynx.: Android tablet plus QWERTY keyboard

Yesterday we looked at some upcoming Android tablets and said that we'd love to see one with a QWERTY keyboard. Well.. here's one, the Sharp Lynx which pretty much does everything that we want.

Before you get too excited, the Lynx is heading for NTT DOCOMO is Japan only. We can see no real reason why it couldn't be tweaked a bit for Europe though, and really we would very much like to see it over here.

The specs are very nice indeed - a 960 x 480 pixel screen, trackball, GPS, WiFi and a 5.3 megapixel camera (an odd number we guess). At 148 x 84 x 18mm and 230 grams it's certainly easier to carry around than a laptop, but a lot more convenient than a smartphone.

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