Whoops! Microsoft lets Sharp’s new smartphone cat out of the box

Looks like someone at Microsoft was a bit too keen to show off the cool new Windows Mobile toys at a presentation in Japan, and has accidentally revealed Sharp’s latest bit of kit.

Looking distinctly iPhone-esque (but then, when you’re putting together a device with a big touch-screen you’re always going to end with something a bit like this), Sharp’s smartphone runs WM6 behind it’s 3″ WVGA (854 x 480 pixel) screen, with a 520Mhz CPU, 256MB flash memory and 128MB SDRAM. The 157g device is around 17.8mm, which makes it both heavier and thicker than the iPhone but the screen resolution is superb — almost three times the number of pixels that Apple is offering.

Apparently the Classic version of WM6 has pretty much all the features of the Professional one, bar voip capabilities. Sharp has a (pretty sparse) teaser site you can check out too.

Updated 8th June: Sharp has just announced the phone in Japan and it’s looking distinctly less iPhone-esque. Unless there is another device in the works, of course…

(Via Gearfuse)

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