Originally published February 13 2006
Long-awaited Sharp GX40 cell phone debuts
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The phone has a 1.3 megapixel camera, miniSD expandable memory, an MP3 player, Bluetooth, a web browser and an email client. The GX40 also includes an FM radio and has a small external display.
We've been waiting for the Sharp GX40 for well over a year now and we finally got confirmation last October that the GX40 was actually coming out with some details from the FCC about the specifications of this new handset.
Finally, Vodafone and Sharp have confirmed the existence of the GX40 due for imminent launch in several Vodafone areas, including Greece, Malta and Swisscom in Switzerland.
Ever since the Sharp GX30 (the first commercially available 1 megapixel camera phone in Europe) was announced two years ago, people have been interested in seeing what would be next in the GX range.
The GX30's predecessor, the GX20 introduced Sharp's excellent QVGA (240x320 pixel display) back in 2003.
So, the assumption was that the GX40 would follow on quite quickly and would probably be based on the Japanese V602 - a 2 megapixel device with a swivelling display.
It's a tri-band GSM phone with a 1.3 megapixel camera, miniSD expandable memory (up to 512Mb), an MP3 player, Bluetooth and external media controls.
There's a small external display that can be used in combination with the GX40's multimedia functions to make it a practical portable media player, and the GX40 includes an FM radio too.
It appears to be a pretty competent device, and there seems to be a general lack of clamshell handsets with good MP3 players and expandable memory, so it fills a niche in the market.
Bizarrely, many of the features on the GX40 are not as good as the handsets that came before it.
For example, the Sharp TM200 had a 2 megapixel camera in a GSM phone, where the GX40 only has 1.3 megapixels, and the Sharp GX30 had quad-band GSM, a camera flash and slightly larger display.
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