Sharp GX15

The Sharp GX15, a brilliant phone, which has almost everything a person could want in a mobile. Camera, video recorder, picture messaging, internet(vodafone live), java games, bluetooth(to transfer data to other bluetooth devices) , infrare(to transfer data to other infrared enabled pda's)
So this is the main features of the phone. I love this phone, i recently bought it and i'm over the moon with it. i picked it up for around £95, but now ...
...its such a bargain for what you get.

Features (in detail)

The Camera (bult in) on this phone is absolutely fantastic for the price. A megga 350,000 pixel resolution, and 4x digital zoom, which makes images and video look great on the fab 65,000 colour screen TFT (the TFT screen has a size of 120x160 so wuite a large display)) . The built in camera allows still images or video media recording, which also records audio ... more

The Sharp GX15, a brilliant phone, which has almost everything a person could want in a mobile. Camera, video recorder, picture messaging, internet(vodafone live), java games, bluetooth(to transfer data to other bluetooth devices) , infrare(to transfer data to other infrared enabled pda's)
So this is the main features of the phone. I love this phone, i recently bought it and i'm over the moon with it. i picked it up for around £95, but now ive seen it in some shops like comet for £80!!! its such a bargain for what you get.

Features (in detail)

The Camera (bult in) on this phone is absolutely fantastic for the price. A megga 350,000 pixel resolution, and 4x digital zoom, which makes images and video look great on the fab 65,000 colour screen TFT (the TFT screen has a size of 120x160 so wuite a large display)) . The built in camera allows still images or video media recording, which also records audio at the same time. The only downside to the video recording is that it is limited to 100kb recording which on high qaulity is only 10 seconds, but still good for those special occasions or at those parties when your m8's are drunk out ther skulls and need to be reminded of what they were up 2 the night before :P
There are two qaulity types for photos; normal and fine, fine being the best qaulity. In addition to this, once a photo has been taken, you can add really cool frames, or objects to the image, e.g. moustaches, crowns, speachbubbles, etc. Plus there are several retouching features which allow you to emboss and image, tile it, and other cool image effects. :D BRILL! Also a fab feature, any photos you take, you can store as your wallpaper, or send via BT (bluetooth) or Irda (infrared)

A brilliant feature which this phone includes, is Bluetooth, for those who don't know what Bluetooth is, its a feature whereby you can conect to other Bluetooth enabled devices and transfer and send data to one another free of charge! so it means you can send various data, e.g. images, animations, video, conatcts, business cards etc etc. (Infrared is also a feature incldued in the phone, which allows you to do the same thing as BT but with Infrared enabled devices. (in this case, this phone is only capable of connecting with PDA's, as i have tried to connect it with another infrared phone and i had no joy )

There is also GPRS enabled internet access for faster loading and downloading of data. This is all part of the fantastic Vodafone live feature. Vodafone Live provides the suer with many many features. as follows

Games, ( a wide range of downloadable games)
Ringtones, ( a wide variety of downloadable ringtones)
Pictures, (lots n lots of categorised downloadable pics)
News, (get the latest news direct to your mobile)
Sport, (get the latest football results, or any other sport)
Find and seek, (look for pub,s restaurents or places with this very helpful feature)
Chat, (chat with the world, on vodafones very own chat service, meet and make friends)
Search, (need to find out about certain info, or document? this is a very good search engine for any of your interests)

There are some very helpful applications pre-installed onto the mobile phone, with vodafone services, where you can request different information, such as live football scores, weather, news and gossip, help menu which directs you to customer services, or online help pages which give you direct access to a wide veriety of FAQ's and technical queries.
There is a multiple alarm function which allows you to set up to 6 different alarm times each with different tones when they are activated.
A helpful calculator for those times when you ned to wokrout the total cost of products your buying in shops etc. The calculator supports all the basic functions; addition, subtraction, division and multiplication capabilities. Alongside the calculator there is also an exchange rate function. (to be perfectly honest this is a very poor part of the phone, the exchange rate is totally naff, and you havnt got any pre-set numbers, so its a bit retarded, but i think you'll survive with one f**k up :D)

A very good feature included in the applications menu is the voice recorder, which is great for memo's and a way of storing important mesasges to be listened to at later times. This feature supports continous audio for upto 30 seconds, which aint half bad jimmy!! :)
Another great thing, if your getting bored with the current ringtones you have, or you can't afford to buy new ones, why not create your own with the nifty built in Melody editor, which allows you to create quite professional sounding melodies which can be saved as ringtones. Included in this fantastic melody editor, you can change the tone of the melody, with a range of literally hundreds of instrument sounds. I love this feature hehe!! You can also set the tempo of the melody and other little features to create your very own personalised ringtone!!

And for the last of the application menu there is a phone help option which for beginners of the GX series, can find out what all the keys are, and find out what shortcuts are on the keypad.

In the messages facility of the phone, theres many wonderful features. You can create your typical sms message, with included optional T9 funtion (T9 is an automatic, predicive text function which allows fast typing for urgent messages). Or if you want to go one step further, why not send an MMS (multimedia message) wherby you can send, pictures, animations, sound, videos and any type of document as an attachemnt to any other MMS enabled phone. :D you can even send a Live Postcard which is a bril facility for those oh so special occasions. Trouble is, it cots £1.50, so don't do it without serious thought.
like all phones, youve got your typical, Inbox, outbox and a draft feature, where you can save incomplete or, just save any mesage you want to, for later viewing, or later editing.

Theres a My Items folder which contains, all Pictures, Games, Sounds, Videos, Text templates and bookmarks you have downloaded or stored on your phone. Along with this there is a memory status feature which is very helpful as it tells you how much memory you have left, and how much memory is being used up by certain media, e.g. Applications, Pictures, Sounds or Videos. One of the downsides of the phone is that it only has a total internal memory of 1.8 MB and 1.3MB useable memory, but its sufficient if you only want pictures and some video on your phone and nothing too outrageous.

Also within this phone, there is a built in calender for saving dates and times, and what you would use a calender for. A contacts list which can store upto 500 numbers on the phone and 250 on the sim card so great if youve got many many contacts. In cooperation with this feature, you can store upto 3 numbers for each contact which is very efficient, plus you can save an image to their name, so that whenever they call you there face comes up on the screen in full. (dont know wether thats a good or bad thing :P) In the contacts menu list, there is many functions, such as;

Add new contact. (Add a new contact to your phone or sim card).

Call log. (which gives you a list of all the numbers or contacts, form incoming or outgoing calls).

Speed dial List, (select shortcut keypresses which when pressed call the contact you have selected. Up to 9 contacts).

My nubmers. (gives you the opportunity to view your mobile number, if you have forgotten it you plonker :P)

Call timers. (brilliant feature which lets you view the total tiem of previous phone calls outgoing or incoming etc.) This can be reset.

Data Counter. (allows you to see just how much data has been transfeerd from or to your phone in total. This can be reset)

There is a settings option on the phone which gives you all the options and funtions to tamper with your phone for optimum effect. With this option you can enable or disable the following things;

Bluetooth
Infrared
Profiles (silent, in car, headset, normal etc.)
Sound(, ringer volume, alerts, vibration, keypad tones, multimedia volume etc.
language settings, change the lannguage of the interface. (english, german, french, italian, spanish, dutch, portugese, and to others i dont know lol!)

Network, (change the network your phone is registered to, only if your phone is unlocked to all networks)

And a master reset function which requires a passcode, and when activated is like a system restore and deletes all added data from the phone and resets it to default ssettings.

This phone has got 3 great java games already installed on it, these include a demo of Invader Groove 6 which is a brilliant java game which is basically space invaders with several difficulty levels. A demo of Arkanoid, which is a java version of the 80's game Breakout. But the trouble is you have limited levles for these demo's. Fortunatley there is a very good java game included, which is called Trance Pinball, which is the full version, and is a very addictive game. And if thats not enough you have got the option to download more and more games from vodafone live!!! EXCELLENT!! if you like your java games or applications.

The phone can also have screensavers installed onto it, but unfortunatley there is none defaulty installed on the phone so you need to download them. Note: all applications and games and screensavers cost around £3 and some cost even more, so make your choice wisely!!!

Oh yes and there is one more problem with this phone, the battery life is next to none, with only around 6 hours of constant use battery, and 6 days on standby, so not the best for endurance. but you cant have everything. Lifes not like that lol!

So in conclusion, i feel that this phone is totally awesome with only a few improvements needed. If you want a phone with, 0.3 Megapixel camera, 65k colour screen, video recording, and brilliant bluetooth and GPRS capabilities all for under £100, this phones is for you!!!!!! 

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