Sharp is No. 1 Android phone seller in Japan for 4 consecutive years
For the fourth consecutive year, Sharp rules the Android smartphones market in Japan. Japanese market analysts BNC Retail announced their smartphone market analysis on 25...
AGAIN: Sharp's is Japan's Best Selling Android Phone Manufacturer
Japanese market analysts BNC Retail have announced their smartphone market analysis and, little wonder, Sharp is Japan's No. 1 developer and seller of Android smartphones for the third consecutive...
Aquos R3 wins iF Design Award
The Aquos R3, Sharp's last's year's flagship smartphone, has won the prestigious iF Design Award for 2020, Product category. The design award was also, surprisingly,...
AU by KDDI now also SIM-unlocks second hand-phones
Effective as of 1st September 2019, AU phones can now also be SIM-unlocked under the new less restrictive policy. If you have a contract phone, you can remove the SIM lock after 100 days have...
SoftBank and Y!Mobile now also SIM unlock second-hand devices
SoftBank and its subsidiary Y!Mobile have also complied with the japanese Ministry of Telecommunications strong recommendation to also offer anyone the option to remove the SIM lock on second-hand...
Sharp Discontinue OLED Displays
Just a year after they officially began mass-producing OLED displays for smartphones, Sharp have now announced that they will discontinue them. The Japanese manufacturer has realised that...
Docomo will now SIM-unlock 2nd-hand phones, too
Effective from 20 February 2019 is a new policy by the largest Japanese carrier that allows removing the SIM lock on second-hand smartphones.
This...
Sharp is Japan's No. 1 Android smartphone maker for 2018, too
Japan market analyst BCN Retail has just published its Android-based smarphone market share report for 2018 and guess what – Sharp hold the number one position even more stably than...
Aquos phones to receive upgrade to Android 9.0 Pie
Since Sharp are now duly executing a programme to provide at least two major updates (OS upgrades) within a period of two years, Japanese carriers are announcing which models will receive...
Sharp taunt a new curved OLED screen flagship – 801SH
Sharp presented their first OLED display phone at the IFA 2018 in Berlin. The display is advertised as "truly flexible" and has a "full-curved surface design" for a 3D effect.
Apparently...
Sharp's LCD panel viewable in sunlight
Sharp have further improved their LCD displays solving the problem of reflected light that makes it difficult to view your smartphone's display in sunlight.
A low-reflection film called...
Sharp develop transparent NFC antenna display
Sharp Japan have developed a transparent NFC antenna that can be right built into the device's display. This enables payment and authentication by simply holding an NFC-compatible smartphone...
Sharp's Long-Awaited European Line-Up Leaks
Sharp's CEO made an announcement last September that the company would be making a new attempt at the European market. Now, some eight months later, a line-up leak confirms these intentions...
Sharp is Japan's No. 1 Android smartphone maker for 2017
The initial report by market analyst BCN Retail, published in the beginning of December 2017, and covering the period between July and October 2017, situated Sharp...
Aquos S3 Rumoured
Less than a month after the official launch of the Aquos S2 (in three versions), already a new device, the successor Aquos S3 is rumoured.
Designer Blanche Lee (a.k.a....