Sharp Papyrus PW-TC900 electronic dictionary, and mobile TV

Hey, no one can blame you for thinking that's the latest UMPC, ultra-portable XP thingamabob, or PMP. After all, Sharp's Papyrus PW-TC900 does feature a QWERTY keyboard, 20-hour battery (5-hours for TV), SD slot for expansion, and 4.3-inch, 480×272 resolution display which rotates 180-degrees for folding into a tasty, TV sandwich. Unfortunately (for us), this is Sharp's latest electronic dictionary set for release in Japan. Although its primary purpose might be for Japanese-English translation and learning, with features like an integrated Japanese OneSeg digital TV tuner and MP3 player, no parent should be too surprised when their Papyrus-equipped kids return from school with attention deficit issues. But hey, nothing a little Ritalin can't fix, eh 70s? On sale in Japan starting December 8th for ¥50,000 or about $425. A couple of those in-the-wild snaps after the break.

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[Jamar @ Nov 20th 2006 10:04AM]

For that much money I expect it to be a PMP. Looks like the only video supported is OneSeg TV, unless the XMDF format they mentioned is for video. It otherwise plays MP3s, views JPEGs, and reads text. Pity China never gets the cool electronic dictionaries- I can only envy the Koreans with the iriver dictionaries (I saw this one- http://product.iriver.co.kr/p_d20_feat.asp but there's more, like http://product.iriver.co.kr/p_d25_feat.asp which has 51 dictionaries- you're covered no matter where you go) because I've never seen a Japanese person with the cool dictionaries featured here- they're Casios that even China is selling (for $200- dictionaries for English, Chinese, and Japanese, and no expansion- might as well look to Japan since I don't read Korean).