Sharp IS03 puts Android on a Retina Display (960 X 640)

Japanese carrier KDDI has announced the Sharp IS03, a handset with a 1GHz Snapdragon QSD8650 processor and 9.6-megapixel camera. The KDDI IS03 supports Global Passport CDMA, runs Android 2.1 (will most likely get a Froyo upgrade sooner or later) and has 3.5-inch 960×640 resolution, which Apple popularized as Retina Display.

Sharp IS03 will unfortunately not be distributed outside Japan, but hopefully we’ll see Android phones featuring such hi-res screens before long in the rest of the world as well.

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