Sharp 903 (Vodafone V903SH) Confirmed
Discontinued 29th July 2005
Following up from our earlier
story, Vodafone have now confirmed the 3G V903SH
for release in Japan during August 2005 and have given
a few more details. As expected, this has a 3.2 megapixel
camera with 2X optical zoom, a 240x320 pixel display,
Bluetooth, miniSD expandable memory (64Mb included)
and stereo audio playback.
Sharp are proud of the display in the V903SH - instead
of a normal TFT this panel uses Sharp's Advanced Super
View (ASV) technology as used in their LCD TVs to give
a clearer display with a wider viewing angle. At 2.4
inches diagonal size, the Sharp 903's display is significantly
larger that the 703's but is the same resolution.
Audio playback on the Sharp 903 is through inbuilt
stereo speakers, and the V903SH comes with pretty much
everything that the 902 did, including an MP3 player,
full video calling, email client, web browser, even
including an OCR (optical character recognition) program
and a barcode scanner.
In truth, it's not the world's biggest upgrade from
the 902,
although there are improvements all around in terms
of both hardware and software features. As we said recently,
the biggest gripe that we have is the switch to miniSD
cards from the SD/MMC format which will probably just
put potential 902 upgraders off.
Still, the Sharp 903 / Vodafone V903SH is about the
best specified clamshell format 3G phone on the market
anywhere. Slated to be available in August 2005 in Japan
(in red, black and white colours), neither Vodafone
nor Sharp have confirmed if and when the handset will
be available in Europe.
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Sharp
903 (Vodafone V903SH) at
a glance
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Available:
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Q3
2005
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Network:
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UMTS
(3G) + Tri-band GSM
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Data:
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UMTS
(3G) + GPRS
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Screen:
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240x320
pixels, 262,000 colours
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Camera:
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3.2 megapixels
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Size:
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large clamshell 109x50x29mm
/ 148 grams
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Bluetooth:
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Yes
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Infra-red:
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Yes
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Polyphonic:
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Yes
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Java:
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Yes
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Battery
life:
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2.5 hours talk / 12 days standby
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