EXTRACT: Japan's Sharp Corp. said on Friday it planned to ship 400,000 camera phones to British mobile phone giant Vodafone Group by December in a bid to take its domestic success overseas. Sharp, Japan's third-largest mobile phone handset maker, said it had recently started shipping Vodafone its foldaway handsets equipped with a digital camera and a large colour screen. The handsets are already available in the US market, but this would be Sharp's first cell phone shipment to Europe, a company spokesman said.
COMMENTARY: Sharp was the source for J-Phone's first Sha-mail camera-equipped handsets back in late 2000, and it is now also supplying similar models to NTT DoCoMo under the i-shot brand name. Make sure you tune into the the WWJ video program next week (Monday, November 4) for our report from the CEATEC 2002 show. The annual gathering of the big consumer electronics makers at Makuhari Messe was pure eye candy, and we got a few shots of upcoming 3G handsets. Surprisingly, shares in Sharp (which is also the largest LCD display maker in Japan) closed last Friday down 0.19 percent at 1,060 yen (while the Nikkei average rose 1.30 percent).
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