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4 unusual facts about Sharp Corporation


Convection microwave

Companies such as Wolf, GE, Sharp, Samsung,Panasonic and Daewoo all currently produce convection microwaves.

Family BASIC

Packaged with an instructional textbook and the Family Basic Keyboard, the software was released to consumers in Japan by Nintendo in co-operation with Hudson Soft and Sharp Corporation on June 21, 1984, with a second version, with added memory, and features known as Family Basic V3 release on February 21, 1985.

Lycée Seijo

During the school's lifetime, according to the Western Society for French History, the "core" of the student body consisted of children of executives working for offices of Japanese multinational companies such as Sharp Corporation and Sony in the Alsace region.

Wireless Home Digital Interface

Sharp partners with AMIMON to offer Sharp's X-Series LCD HDTVs offered with WHDI wireless link, the first CE product to use WHDI technology.


Automatic Centre

Collins International has since been a distributor of global brands such as the genuine Thermos brand (USA), Sharp (Japan), Timex (USA), Marathon (Korea), Camping Gaz (France), Soenhle (Germany), Dowell (various), Omron (Japan), and Moulinex (France).

Electronics industry in Japan

Japanese companies have been responsible for a number of important innovations, including having pioneered the transistor radio and the Walkman (Sony), the first mass-produced laptops (Toshiba), the VHS recorder (JVC), and solar cells and LCD screens (Sharp).

MOAP

MOAP(S) is supported by Symbian OS based phones from a number of manufacturers such as Fujitsu, Sony Ericsson Japan, Mitsubishi, Sharp and others.

Picsel

They have been particularly popular with the Korean OEMs Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, and many Japanese OEMs including Sharp, Kyocera, Fujitsu, Sony Ericsson, Casio Hitachi and others.

PlayStation Portable hardware

The Samsung (previously Sharp) branded TFT LCD screen measures 110 mm (4.3 in) diagonal with a 16:9 ratio and a 480×272 pixel resolution capable of 16.77 million colors.

Red Bend Software

Red Bend’s software has been deployed by handset manufacturers including Kyocera, LG Electronics, Motorola, Sharp, Sony Ericsson and ZTE, as well as companies in the mobile, M2M, automotive and enterprise markets.

Ronald McDonald House Charities Canada

The corporate donors that are currently involved with the Ronald McDonald House Charities Canada are Benjamin Moore, Bissell, Coca Cola, Cossette, Ecolab, Electrolux, Ikon, Kruger Products, Microsoft, Moneris, Sealy and Sharp.

SoftBank Mobile

J-PHONE grew steadily for a decade by continuously introducing new services and enhancements such as SkyWalker for PDC, SkyMelody ringtone download, the famous Sha-Mail picture mail introduced on the basis of camera phones developed by SHARP, the mobile multimedia data service J-Sky modeled after NTT DoCoMo's i-mode, and advanced Java services based on JSCL, modeled after NTT DoCoMo's DoJa based i-appli.

SonicStage

As of October 2008, 16 au phones (manufactured by Casio Hitachi Mobile Communications, Kyocera, Sanyo, Sharp, Sony Ericsson and Toshiba) support LISMO's ATRAC service.

Visegrád Group

The high technology and IT sectors are also growing with the help of investors like Google, Toshiba, Dell, GE, LG and Sharp.


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