Sharp will release e-book terminal "GALAPAGOS (Galapagos)" unique to Japan, e-book distribution service also

While e-book distribution service in other countries has begun to vibrate, although Japan still has a feeling that each company continues to intersect in a manner contending for initiative, at last Sharp finally has rich expression power and use suitable for Japanese book culture E-book terminal with easy user interface "GALAPAGOS (Galapagos)We announced.

It has a meaning to deride Japanese mobile phones that have evolved their own like creatures living in the Galapagos IslandsGalapagos Keitai (abbreviation: Garakey)"As you can see, the word" Galapagos "has an impression that there is not much good image, but because it is a sharp that boasts a majestic top market share in the Japanese mobile phone market, It may have given naming.

Details are as below.
First e-book store service started in December | News release: Sharp

According to Sharp press release, the company is going to launch the cloud media business "GALAPAGOS (Galapagos)" evolving to the needs of individual users and providing a new user experience.

The first e-book distribution service will be launched in December, so you can use the latest content such as newspapers and magazines that subscribe for subscription (fee), trial version of recommended ebook content (free ) Will be automatically distributed. As for the number of contents at the beginning of service, about 30,000 volumes of newspapers, magazines, books and so on.

In conjunction with the start of the service, we plan to release two media tablets nicknamed "GALAPAGOS" at the same time as a dedicated terminal, with a mobile type that can be read easily with a 5.5-inch LCD with paperback feeling and a 10.8-inch high Line-up of two models of home type that can enjoy magazines spread out with fine HD liquid crystal.

By collaborating with the dedicated application "GALAPAGOS Station", you can manage the content purchased on the media tablet with a PC, attach ratings to the content that you have finished reading, write your own impressions, or display the site for personal computers with a Web browser It is also possible.

This is home type "GALAPAGOS" with 10.8 inch LCD mounted. It is equipped with 1366 × 800 high definition liquid crystal, color only black series line up.


Mobile type with 5.5 inch LCD. The resolution of the display is 1024 × 600 and there are two colors of silver type and red type. This is a red type.


Silver type is like this. Both models are equipped with IEEE802.11 b / g wireless LAN.


It is side by side.


In addition, "GALAPAGOS" corresponds to the electronic book format "XMDF" corresponding to expressions peculiar to the Japanese such as vertical writing, ruby, etc., so that only reading the character size without changing the layout of headings and image images Easy to modify, including touching the screen to display the next sentence, including ingenious ideas.

The special site of "GALAPAGOS" is from the following.

Media tablet: Sharp