But in doing so, companies like Facebook enter the world of very sharp pencils.

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This is very speculative indeed but is there a possibility that Apple will rescue Sharp from its financial woes?

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It looks fancy and may come in handy on occasion, but didn't feel to us like a very reliable way of picking a good, sharp image -- we'd still use the more traditional best shot mode for that.

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Sharp has just wrapped a rather dry press conference at IFA, where it announced very little, but did rattle off a series of fairly benign and boring numbers (which we will spare you from).

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