Sharp has announced a new cloud-based media service that is aimed specifically at the Japanese market. Dubbed as Galapagos (after the Galapagos Islands), the service claims to bring a new user experience to meet “each customer’s changing needs.” The first initiative is an e-book store that will start in December and provide users a fee-based Automatic Scheduled Delivery Service, apt for periodicals and newspapers.
To deliver the e-books, Sharp has also unveiled couple of Android-based devices that will go on sale along with the e-book store. While Sharp is mum on most of the device details, we do know that one will feature a 5.5-inch LCD screen (1024×600) while the other one will have a 10.8-inch display (1366×800) which is optimized for HD viewing.
Both the models support Sharp’s latest XMDF e-book format and have Wi-Fi, web browser, trackball (5.5-inch device only) and SNS support.
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