Sharp SH705iII, the Elegant TV Phone

Sharp, the giant Japanese electronics producer, recently unveiled one of its latest mobile phones, Sharp SH705iII. The handset features a built-in TV tuner and a wide 2.8 inch internal screen with a 400 x 240 pixels resolution and support for 262,000 colors, hence it can offer a good mobile TV viewing experience.

Sharp SH705iII comes in an elegant clamshell form factor, weighs 106 grams and, when closed, it measures 106 x 48 x 16.1 millimeters. Other features, except the TV related ones, include an external OLED screen with 96 x 39 pixels, 3G international roaming capability, microSD card support to boost the internal memory, and a 3.2 Megapixel camera (with flash and video recording) that should offer users pictures at a pretty good quality. The phone's battery can provide an unlimited time of watching TV, but only if you re-charge it after every 160 minutes. Which is another way of saying that you actually get only 2 hours of TV watching.

Further features of the new Sharp (like the Web or music related ones) are not known for the moment, but they can only be attractive, judging after the specs we already mentioned.

For the moment Sharp SH705iII is only available in Japan, exclusively via NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile carrier in the country. The handset is released as FOMA SH705iII and not as Sharp SH705iII, because the Japanese carrier renames all its 3G-enabled mobile phones with "FOMA", regardless of their producer. Which isn't a bad thing, but neither a good one.

Unfortunately, there are little chances for Sharp SH705iII to be released in Europe, North America or any other market except the Japanese one. Too bad, because it really seems to be a good phone, as well as the other Sharp handsets released lately, like AQUOS SH905i or the iPhone-ish 921SH.



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