Many may have missed Sharp’s new 3D smartphone, the Aquos SH-12C 3D, which was unveiled earlier this month at Computex.
The handset was developed for NTT’s DoCoMo network and features twin cameras and a glass-free stereoscopic qHD display. The new 3D device runs on a 1.4GHz single core Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon SoC with 2100MHz and 800MHz HSPA support. It also packs 512MB RAM, 8GB of built-in storage with a microSD card slot, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS radios, a micro HDMI output, FeliCa compatibility as well as a 1seg TV receiver.
The SH-12C 3D runs on Google’s Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread) operating system.
The Aquos SH-12C 3D boasts with a 4.2-inch qHD, 960 x 540 pixel, glasses-free 3D LCD. It also consists of twin 8-megapixel autofocus cameras with flash and autofocus assist light. It is capable of taking 3D pictures at 2-megapixels, in MPO format only, and captures 3D video in 720p at 30 fps, with the left and right frames being squeezed into a single 1280 x 720 pixel H264 frame.
It is unknown whether this device will be released to the International community at this time.