Not sure how upset many people are going to be over this one, but Sharp's uber-expensive, currently Japan-only media tablets are set to be canned. 

The Galapagos series of tablets were released late last year over in Japan and were pegged to arrive in the US, but never quite made the trip abroad. 

The tablets were entirely cloud based and behaved very much like an ereader. They came in either a mobile 5.5-inch version of a much larger 10.8-inch tablet form. The screen resolution was what really had us excited about the Sharp tablets, however, as the larger version featured a 1366 x 800 screen with the smaller sporting a 1024 x 600 LCD. There is also the Galapagos 7-inch tablet complete with Android 3.2 which will continue to be sold in Japan. 

Unfortunately our translation skills aren't massively brilliant when it comes to Japanese, but a quick Google translate of one of Sharp's web pages reveals both the 5.5- and 10-inch will finish sales on 30 September. 

Not a massive problem we suppose as we are pretty much spoilt for choice right now on the tablet front, but still would be nice to see something from Sharp. We imagine one of the main reasons was the cost of the devices, the 10-incher priced in at no less than 54,800 yen at launch. That works out at roughly £450 for a tablet with just 8GB of microSDHC memory included.

Sad about Sharp? Or you not bothered?