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Mobile Devices and Apps | Mobile O.S's => Smartphones | Wearables | Concepts | etc. => Topic started by: riso on March 31, 2010, 03:02:19 PM

Title: Sharp's Snapdragon-powered, Android-running IS01 MID gets a hands-on
Post by: riso on March 31, 2010, 03:02:19 PM
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Sharp's new IS01 MID for KDDI au proved to be something of a letdown when it was announced earlier today, partly due to raised expectations, and partly due to a lack of a decent look at it. Thankfully, Akihabara News has now come through on the latter point, and provided a fairly extensive hands-on look at the Snapdragon-powered MID. Anyone hoping for a bit more incentive to buy one may well still come away disappointed, however, as the site describes the device as fairly "cheap" feeling, and says that it doesn't have multitouch support (although earlier reports have stated that the device has a multitouch display). That said, the Snapdragon processor does apparently ensure that the device is suitably speedy, and there's always the possibility for some exciting things to emerge from its developer-friendly JN-DK01 counterpart.