Sharp Galapagos Honeycomb Media Tablet is going to hit the Japanese market on 9 December. The best feature of this 7 inch tab is its support to WiMAX.  This feature is quite popular in Japan and UQ,a local carrier of this country promise to provide a speed of up to 40Mpbs on the downstream. Although it runs on Android 3.2 Honeycomb OS but we just hope that it will soon get a taste of Ice cream Sandwich.

This tablet has high-end specs such as Dual core processor, 1GB RAM and 8GB storage just like Kindle Fire.A 7 inch Sharp Galapagos Android Tablet is packed with a 7-inch LCD display which provides support to multitouch. It comes with dual snapper, a 5MP rear camera and a 2Mp front facing snapper for perfect video calling. For connectivity, you will find Wi-Fi and Bluetooth along with WiMAX connection. Check the detail specs below.

Full Specs of 7 inch Sharp Galapagos Media Tablet

• CPU: NVIDIA ® Tegra TM 2 mobile processor (dual core CPU)
• Weight: 396g (including internal battery)
• Operating System: Android TM 3.2
• Built-in-memroy: ROM 8GB / RAM 1GB
• Display: TFT-LCD widescreen 7 (LED backlight, WSVGA, 1,024×600 pixels
• Front facing snapper: 2MP
• Rear Camera: 5MP
• Connectivity: Mobile WiMAX (IEEE802.16e-2005 compliant),Wi-Fi (compliance IEEE802.11b/g/n, supports WPS) and Bluetooth ® wireless technology compliant Ver.2.1 + EDR
• Sensor: Acceleration sensor, gyro sensor, orientation sensor, Ambient light sensor
• Card slot: Memory Card microSD / microSDHC memory card × 1 (32GB Max)
• USB2.0, 3.5mm stereo mini jack and compliant USB2.0
• Battery: built-in lithium ion
• Accessories: AC adapter, USB cable (sample), microSD TM memory card (2GB)

The users of this Media tablet of Sharp will be able to use Google services such as YouTube, GTalk, Gmail, Android Market, Google Maps and some other services like music, contacts, calculator, Movie Studio, card reader, Evernote Skitch SnapCal, UQ Wi-Fi connections, wireless network switching. Best of all, Sharps Galapagos Store is there for the user’s comfort. They are in a position to choose from a collection of 40,000 favorite newspapers, magazines and books.

Sharp didn’t mention anything about the price of Sharp 7 inch Media Tablet. We only have information about the release date which is 9 December 2011 however we don’t know when it will hit the other markets.

Source: Sharp