TOKYO, Japan -16 May, 2007 – Symbian Ltd. today announced that over 20 million Symbian smartphones have shipped in Japan up until the end of March 2007. Symbian OS is the global market-leading, open mobile operating system for smartphones. (more…)

Sharp has succeeded in developing a new LCD for mobile equipment such as mobile phones. The new LCD features the industry’s highest contrast ratio of 2,000:1*1, a wide viewing angle of 176 degrees that is top class in the industry, and a high-speed response time of 8 ms. (more…)

Oslo, Norway and Tokyo, Japan – April 3, 2007 – Opera Software and Japan’s newest 3G operator, EMOBILE, today announced that the Opera Mobile browser will be pre-installed on its first device, the Sharp EM·ONE. The EMOBILE service along with the Sharp EM·ONE is available in Japan as of March 31, 2007. EM·ONE runs on (more…)

TOKYO – NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Renesas Technology Corp., Fujitsu Limited, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Sharp Corporation, and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, announced that they plan to jointly develop a next-generation mobile phone platform for dual-mode handsets supporting (more…)