Want a disco in yer handbag?! Buy a GX20!!!

Advantages: Digital and Video camera, Games with fantastic graphics, Cool tones, looks rather swish!!!
Disadvantages: Quite large in size

...I recently upgraded to this..... the almighty Sharp GX20...... so new and fantastic even David Beckham has one!!! :o) The phone is very easy to use. It does not take long to master the menu map and if, like me, you had it's little brother, the Sharp GX-10 or GX-10i then it'll take you about 5 minutes to work it out. The main feature on this phone is its amazingly clear colour screen. As far as colour screens on mobiles go this is the bee's knees. The GX20 weighs in at 105 grams, which is slightly heavier than a lot of phones on the market at the moment although it is 105 grams or pure mobile entertainment. You can store up to 599 names, numbers and e-Mail addresses (500 on the phone and 99 on the SIM), you can even add pictures to peoples profiles. So, for example, if your sister's ringing to yell at you cos you borrowed her...

Melanie4981 07.12.2003 · Read review
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Review of Sharp GX20

Sharp GX20 - The Phone for the Future

Advantages: Stylish, Fun & Easy to Work
Disadvantages: Not the smallest phone in the world!!!

...The Sharp GX20!! What can I say?? Well, what's the first thing you do when you get a phone!! Look at it!!!! The phone looks very stylish, although as already stated - it's not the smallest of phones (at least you won't lose it). It has both internal and external display screens. Very classy, huh? Load of functions too!!! I'll go through them all!!! A great colour screen of a good size to start with. An easy to use menu screen - not at all complicated although I wouldn't have this phone as one of your first. Camera :- Has both a digital camera (can be downloaded to your computer - all software is included) and a video camera which also records the sound. Great fun for embarrasing others after a night out!! ;-) The camera quality is very good - better than any other camera phone that I have seen; although the subject has to...

KrmShep 03.03.2004 · Read review
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Review of Sharp GX20

A samsung you can`t text on!

Advantages: See review!
Disadvantages: hard to find any!

...you would be likely to break something but with the GX-20 those fears are well and truly gone, this thing feels unbreakable in your hands and really gives you the confidence to just use it. I have heard people say that this camera is basically a Pentax k20d with a different body, I dismiss that as nonsense straight off. Having used the afore mentioned Pentax I find the differences between the two enough to be able to say that the people making this comparison have little or no idea what they are talking about. The Samsung GX-20 out-performs the Pentax at every stage and has included features that the Pentax does not have. What I have to go on to say is that as with any DSLR camera if you do not have a wide selection of lenses then you will limit the camera and what it can do, as a professional I have more than 30 lenses and use them...

thebigc1690 04.06.2008 · Read review
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Review of Samsung GX-20

  Pentax produces pretty perfect pictures!

Advantages: Great build quality, easy to use and good picture quality.
Disadvantages: No image stabalisation and no wide angle capability in the lens.

...As I am sure most Ciao members will now know, I am a professional photographer but as well as taking pictures I also hold photography seminars at my local camera club and over the last few years I have become somewhat of a target for sales persons asking me to try out their latest digital cameras and give talks and written reviews on them. I figured a couple of years back if I was going to be testing out all these cameras and doing reviews anyway then I may as well be posting them on Ciao and Dooyoo and making some money for charity which as you well know is what I do now. The latest camera to be handed to me is the Pentax Optio M60 and as you read on you will find that this little digital camera is a real breath of fresh air. For months now I have been handed very expensive digital point and shoot cameras that claim to be able...

thebigc1690 28.04.2009 (17.05.2009) · Read review
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Review of Pentax Optio M60

Pentax K1000

Advantages: Unlimited use
Disadvantages: Need to buy a flash separate

...In this age of high technology automatic electronic equipment it pays to take a step back to the simple things such as the Pentax K1000 camera. The fully manual 35mm SLR obviously requires complete user control but for the photographer who doesn’t want to be limited by a camera’s ability, this is the one for you. The only power needed is for the exposure meter from a small battery which is activated when the lens cap is removed. The built-in through-the-lens meter measures the average brightness of the ground glass at full aperture and then couples to the aperture, shutter and film speed settings. The shutter mechanism is completely manual meaning that the camera can still be used even when the battery is exhausted, with a little guess work for the exposure. The focal plane shutter extends from speeds B, 1 second to 1...

hakkved 09.03.2001 (07.03.2001) · Read review
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Review of Pentax K1000

Pentax K100D

Advantages: image quality,shake reduction, backwards lens compatibilty
Disadvantages: DSLR's are still too big

...the manual focus ring at any time. The camera does use it's 11 focus zones and gives you a red marker on screen where it chose to focus. Manual focus was a dream with my old K mount lenses as the matte viewfinder is very effective and the camera's own focusing system gives you both audible and visual focus confirmation. IMAGE QUALITY My original plan was to buy the K100D body and use my old lenses until I had saved up for a top quality 18-200 zoom. However, I could get the package with the Pentax 18-55mm for only £20 more than the body only, a no brainer. So how good is this bundled lens. My main concern was that it might provide a resolution lower than the sensor could capture. I also tested the 50mm Chinon and 80-200mm Vivitar. The review sites generally agreed that around 1500 lines per picture height was available and that 's what...

bodyboarderdude 07.02.2007 · Read review
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Review of Pentax K100D

A Phone Which Defies The Laws Of...A Mobile Phone

Advantages: Sleek design
Disadvantages: Only Vodafone

...If anybody said that this is just the normal average phone, they ought to think twice. The Sharp GX20 is in my opinion the most lucrative phone ever to grace on British land. Its features are second to none and it is difficult to criticise such an innovative phone. I bought this phone at a mere £350 from my local shopping centre, hoping to get the utmost in quality by the so-called ?ultimate phone?. Having opened the box, I could not believe the small size for a phone which had numerous sophisticated features. First of all, the most complimentary feature is the camera. It surpasses all similar technology advances of its kind (e.g. Nokia7250) to bring you a camera supporting a screen capable of 65,000 colours and an ultra high-resolution of 480x640, bringing you each and every pixel in complete precision. Unlike the previous...

Zigi 09.02.2004 (29.02.2004) · Read review
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Review of Sharp GX20

Powerful Pentax

Advantages: Small, Light, Flexable, Excellent Results
Disadvantages: Fiddlely buttons

...I needed a digital camera for part of the NVQ work that I am doing at the moment and also thought it would be a good idea for my annual leave next week. There are so many digital cameras on the market that I was at a bit of a loss which to buy. My father has been a photographer of sorts for some time and has always recommended Pentax. The Pentax Optio immediately got my attention. It is tiny, about the size of a box of paracetamol in all dimensions. It has an aluminium body and is very classy to look at. I have been told that the case can be scratched very easily. I have had mine now for a month and I am not the most careful of people around and there is not a scratch in sight. By pressing the on/off button on the right hand side at the top of the camera, the zoom lens effortlessly glides outwards. Press it to off and the lens...

hakken_krakk 10.07.2004 · Read review
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Review of Pentax Optio S4

Is it Safe to leave Nokia Land?

Advantages: Looks good, excellent camera, great games
Disadvantages: text, feels top heavy, alarm!

...First I will start by stating I always buy Nokia for numerous reasons, I tried a Sony once and it lasted a day before exchanging it for a Nokia. I've again ventured out of the mighty land of Nokia. I plumped for the Sharp GX20 as I read numerous reviews on the web raving about the phone and it's features. Once the phone arrived first impression was that it looked very stylish although I had reservations about the size, although small in height it's quite chunky and it felt quite heavy even without the battery in. Battery and sim installed I started to have a good fiddle about. The menu system although very easy to use is not as good as the Nokia menu system, Nokia is king there and I won't harp on about it. What I like about this phone . . . . Camera, first time i've used a camera phone and the experience was...

cmcdermo73 08.10.2003 · Read review
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Review of Sharp GX20

Very flash phone, some important drawbacks

Advantages: Very nice resolution, design, front screen
Disadvantages: texting, only on vodafone

...I was a previous gx10 user for about a year and then recently have upgraded to this model, so in this review I will be often talking from a point of view of whether it was a worthwhile upgrade. I've also never owned a nokia so my only experience for comparison will be limited from other people's phones. Advantages of the gx20: The thing that impressed me the most as soon as I opened this up was the amazing increase in resolution over the gx10, both in pixels on the screen and on the camera. While the screen pixels doesn't make so much of a difference being able to get in more detail on the camera at long range is definitely a big advantage. The camera in itself is a big advantage of the phone, while not quite up to the megapixels of phones in Japan and the most recent models here it's surely a big step up from the gx10 in terms...

Terigoche 11.05.2004 · Read review
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