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Sharp's IS03 Android phone wants a fight with Apple’s iPhone 4

October 5th, 2010        

Sharp's IS03 Android phone wants a fight with Apple’s iPhone 4

And you thought your iPhone 4 has the best screen out there. Now Sharp has crashed that proudness of yours. Its new IS03 for the Japan’s KDDI au network is powered by Android 2.1, and it has a full 960 x 640 resolution on its 3.5-inch screen. That sounds awfully familiar, like the Apple Retina display, minus the branding moniker. But that’s not all; the new IS03 also has Advanced Super View (ASV) technology that delivers the same kind of viewing angle benefits you could find on an IPS.

Now, this thing might also kill the iPhone 4, if you consider that Android is able to outperform iOS. This baby is fitted with a 9.6-Megapixel autofocus camera with image stabilization (zomg), one-seg TV tuner, and Osaifu-Keitai, which allows the phone to be used for contactless payments in subways and the like in Japan. This is essentially a Global Passport CDMA standard phone, thus you’ll be able to use it if your country has CDMA network. But that also depends whether you’ll be able to get your paws on this baby in the first place.

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