The future of mobile devices already looks bright thanks to the promise of flexible displays. A new display technology called Free-Form Display unveiled by Sharp this weeks now promises to make that future even more exciting by giving us displays with very unique shapes. Conventional displays typically have rectangular displays because their bezel incorporate a certain amount of circuitry. Sharp’s Free-Form […]
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Sharp unveils 15.6-inch RW-16G1 Windows 8.1 tablet
It would appear that a small war is waging over who’s going to have the largest tablet. Samsung unveiled the 12.2-inch Galaxy NotePro and Galaxy TabPro at CES 2014. Then there is the larger 12.9-inch iPad with a 4K display that Apple is rumoured to be working on. But neither company has anything on Sharp which just unveiled the 15.6-inch RW-16G1 […]
Display shortages delaying iPhone 5 production?
Sharp has reportedly fallen behind schedule in delivering displays to Apple for its upcoming iPhone 5. Reuters reports that the supplier is struggling with manufacturing difficulties and high costs and is not able to meet production targets. Just how far behind schedule Sharp is is not not clear though. For its part, Sharp would only confirm that its Kameyama LCD […]
Dual-sliding Sharp EM ONE for Japan
Sharp has unveiled the EM ONE for the E-Mobile Internet service provider in Japan. It will launch in late March when E-Mobile inaugurates their HSDPA Internet service. In terms of specifications, it will be powered by a Marvell 520MHz XScale processor, an NVIDIA GoForce 5500 GPU and Windows Mobile 5 for Pocket PC. It will feature a 4.1-inch WVGA (800×480) […]