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These days, a touchscreen smartphone in your pocket (or in your hand) shows the world that you know what's what in the mobile space and you're not afraid to sit on the always-moving edge of high-technology. And, if you're lucky enough to be rocking a smartphone with a VGA or WVGA touchscreen display, you're probably resting easy knowing that you're near or at the top of the mobile phone food chain.

That is, unless you live in Japan. Enter Softbank's Sharp AQUOS FullTouch 931SH touchscreen handset with a 3.8-inch 1024 x 480 display!

Those crazy engineers at Sharp have one-upped themselves with their latest AQUOS-branded high-resolution display handset. Known for their sleekly styled and feature-packed mobile phones, Sharp has a habit of making us drool with AQUOS cellphones boasting contrast, color saturation, and pixel densities that we can only dream of in The States.

The Softbank's Sharp AQUOS FullTouch 931SH handset boasts an amazingly high-resolution, AQUOS-branded display with pixel-counts that darn near rival those on sub-notebooks. That's right, this feature-phone packs in an impressive 1024 x 480 pixel display that should make pictures taken with the handset's 5.2 megapixel camera look mighty fine. Of course the Sharp AQUOS FullTouch 931SH packs in Japanese handset staples like a 1-Seg TV tuner, Bluetooth 2.0, media player, microSD card slot, accelerometer, and a web-browser that'll put the 3G data connection to good use.

As you've probably already guessed, the Sharp AQUOS FullTouch 931SH isn't going to finding a home anywhere outside of Japan, or outside of Softbank's network, for that matter. Now, short of moving to Japan, we can only hope that handset makers will bring WVGA-trumping touchscreen displays to the rest of the world!