Sharp has formally announced its first smartphone to feature a flexible OLED display, the Aquos Zero, which will ship in Japan and Taiwan during the fourth quarter of 2018. The company first teased the handset at IFA 2018.
Most of the specs that were being leaked back then have held true, apart from a slightly different display resolution of 2992 × 1440. The 6.2″ notched OLED display has a contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1 and DCI-P3 wide colour gamut, with support for Dolby Vision HDR. We also now know that the OLED display being used is one that Sharp itself has developed in-house and that the device features an 8MP internal camera.
Sharp has also put paid to reports that the handset is made of plastic, revealing that the Aquos Zero is actually made of magnesium alloy and high-strength aramid fibre.
