Here you are ladies and gentlemen the world first Android 2.3 Clamshell phone. Heresy? Not so fast! Japanese people love clamshell phone more than anything else and it is not surprising that a company like Sharp decided to jump into this niche by designing the world first Android Clamshell.

Sold via Softbank, the AQUOS Phone “The Hybrid 007SH” is a unique phone that comes with everything you could think of! An IPX5/IPX7 Waterproof body, a 16.10Mpix sensor, a 3.4” WVGA 3D New Mobile ASV touchscreen, 720p video recording mode, 3D Photo and Video Mode, AQUOS TV connector Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0 and Android 2.3!

Mark my word on this one, but this is “The Hybrid 007SH” is THE phone that will bring the average Japanese customer to the Smartphone world… Japanese people are still so much attached to the Clamshell form-factors that many people here were waiting for something like this to happen in order to move from the Feature Phone era to the Smartphone one… Well-played Sharp!