While Samsung and LG are busy tooling around with pretty-but-unavailable solar phone concepts, Sharp is actually doing something about it (as is ZTE, now that we think about it) by prepping a retail model in partnership with Japanese carrier KDDI au. Sharp’s taking it one step further, though, by making its unnamed model fully waterproof — a surprisingly common feature among domestic-market Japanese phones — making it the first such handset to be released anywhere in the world. It’ll launch this June as part of KDDI’s seasonal summer collection.
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Original post by Chris Ziegler
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