The first Google Android phone, the T-Mobile G1, may be only days away from launch (October 30th for the UK), but in Japan, Yahoo! is making waves, at least as far as Sharp is concerned. What you see here is the new Sharp 9225H smartphone, which, as you can see, features a full QWERTY keyboard that snaps open in a similar way to the Nokia E90.

What you can also see, though, is a dedicated Yahoo! button. Although the 9225H isn't quite in the same league as the Android platform that Google's developed, it at least shows that Google's not the only search engine with mobile ambitions.

The 9225H certainly looks the part as far as smartphones go, but it's not actually that feature-rich. It support mobile TV (using the Japanese 1-Seg format), but although it also lets you play video and music, it only comes with a 2 megapixel camera.

Don't think Google has too much to worry about at this stage!

[Source: Electronista]