Four of the Japanese giant companies NTT DoCoMo, Renesas, Fujitsu and Sharp have announced that they plan to jointly develop the SH-Mobile G4 single-chip LSI device, and a platform incorporating it, to support the HSUPA1/HSDPA2/W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS/EDGE (2G) mobile telephony standards.

The new SH-Mobile G4 will be fabricated with 45-nm process technology to [...]

Nine new companies have joined the opensource Symbian Foundation,among the new companies who joined are Opera Software, Japan’s Sharp and Korea telecom operator KTF. At the same time, six other companies are said to have joined the foundation in order to gain access to its opensource software.
To date, Nokia says that there have been hundreds [...]

NTT DoCoMo launched the new Symbian based phone, FOMA SH706i. The sliding phone is manufactured by Sharp– the largest phone manufacturer in Japan. The FOMA SH706i phone has a 3 inch wide VGA, 2 megapixel camera, 1seg, DOLBY mobile and a full slide style design. This phone is part of DoCoMo’s summer 2008 models and [...]