Sharp GX33
Available
now 23rd August 2007
We haven't seen a handset from Sharp in a little
while, but the Sharp GX33 is the latest handset to hit
Europe from this Japanese giant. Looking a little like
last year's GX40, the GX33 is a fairly compact clamshell
phone. This particular handset is aimed at the value
end of the market.
And here is the problem - although we anticipate that
the Sharp GX33 will offer very good value for money,
it's rather too basic to be that exciting. The
GX33 has a 1.9" 176x220 pixel display, VGA resolution
digital camera, Bluetooth, a web browser and email client and
really not much else. There's no expandable memory,
and the GX33 also doesn't have a multimedia player.
At 87 grams, the GX33 is quite light and it comes it
quite a pleasing design overall. In our experience,
Sharp mobile phones are always well built and easy to
use, so it looks like an appealing choice if you don't want
to spend too much.
Sharp can certainly manage something more exciting
than this. Remember, this is the company that gave us
the first European megapixel phone, the GX30,
in 2004. Later that year, Sharp announced the groundbreaking
902, easily
the most sophisticated 3G phone on the market at the
time. They then improved on this in 2005 with the Sharp
903, which is still available in several markets.
When the 902 and 903 were launched, they were way ahead
of the competition in terms of features. And although
Sharp has continued to innovate in their home market
of Japan, the European market has been stuck with some
rather lacklustre devices such as this.
The Sharp GX33 is exclusive to Vodafone, and is due
to be in stores in the very near future.
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Sharp
GX33 at a glance
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Available:
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Q3
2007
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Network:
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GSM
900/1800/1900
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Data:
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GPRS
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Screen:
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176
x 220 pixels, 260k colours
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Camera:
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0.3
megapixels
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Size:
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Compact
clamshell 93 x 45 x 21mm
/ 87 grams
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Bluetooth:
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Yes
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Memory
card:
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No
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Infra-red:
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No
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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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3.5
hours talk / 10 days standby
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