Sharp 007SH (Android Flip) The Hybrid

[snowflakess_90]

After reading all 22 pages of this thread, I've decided to replace my iPhone 3G with this phone. I've never had a keitai before so I was hoping someone could answer some of my questions:

- I live in Canada and use Rogers as my carrier. Will all the basic phone functions (incoming/outgoing calls, voicemail, caller id, text message, etc.) still work?

- I am planning to buy from canadajphone. Are they trustworthy dealers? Are their hypersims hard to install?

- It seems that 3G doesn't work with hypersim phones, but I read in an earlier post here that someone had it working on Rogers 3G? Is there any possibility that 3G internet may work for me? If 3G internet won't work, I will be able to use 2G EDGE, right? I have a data plan right now and want to be able to use it.

- The screen is a touch screen, right? Does it have an on-screen keyboard, or is all typing done on the keypad?

Is there anything else that I should know before buying this? It's quite pricey and I don't want to end up with a phone that turns out to not work.

[IonNuke]

CanadaJPhone is trustworthy. I supplied and made hypersims for him at one point in the past.

Basic functions you'll get off the bat. As for the other stuff I'm not sure. LOL.

Keitais are always pricey unless you buy 2nd hand. Most people aren't okay with 2nd hand but it's just a personal preference I think.

[tokyo_dom]

Well, i am now in possession of an 007SH. The girl i bought it off explained why she was selling it, and i guess it might explain why this phone wasnt such a big hit here in Japan.

It was her first smartphone, and to put it bluntly, the battery life almost reduced her to tears. At full power, GPS, everything enabled and browsing the web, she said she was down to 20% after her 1.5hr train commute. The 820mAh battery really was a failure by Sharp - sure it makes the phone thin, but at the cost of many Japanese buyers getting shocked and turning to iPhone

However, my experience with it is not sooo bad. I had a short battery life on my 005SH so i new i had to enable the saver mode. Turn down the screen, turn off GPS etc. Last night was the first night, but i got from 6pm until 4:30am with about 25% left, some browsing, app installing, a phone call and whatsapp chatting. I dont think thats too bad.

But i realised. I am a qwerty person. Cant type on the keypad to save my life, so i spent the entire night using an onscreen keyboard (Smart Keyboard). If there was a keyboard app that did proper T-9 from the keypad i might change my mind, but as it is, i think i will be getting it unlocked and then putting it up for sale.

[yamanote]

If you're going to ship the phone to 'kokos' for the unlock then let me know how it works after you get the phone back

[kokos]

Excuse me, but I`m not "koko," I`m "kokoS" : Хехехе:

[klanse]

Just curious, do you actually assemble the whole hypersim(chips and plastic flim etc) yourself or you just program it?

[yamanote]

Excuse me, but I`m not "koko," I`m "kokoS" : Хехехе:

Haha, my mistake. My post has been edited accordingly.

[kokos]

All (we do) Android Sharp from Softbank softunlocked, no hypersim.

[kokos]

No problem ))

[patrixl]

Well, i am now in possession of an 007SH. The girl i bought it off explained why she was selling it, and i guess it might explain why this phone wasnt such a big hit here in Japan.

It was her first smartphone, and to put it bluntly, the battery life almost reduced her to tears. At full power, GPS, everything enabled and browsing the web, she said she was down to 20% after her 1.5hr train commute. The 820mAh battery really was a failure by Sharp - sure it makes the phone thin, but at the cost of many Japanese buyers getting shocked and turning to iPhone

hah yeah, I wonder sometimes if some manufacturers want their phone(s) to fail in the market... Notice that nearly every iPhone on display in any store in the world is functional, most often with actual wifi or 3G enabled so people can use them and see how well they work. Countless Android and Windows smartphones are barely usable in stores, because there's no such standard or pressure from the OEM to have units that work. And that's just one detail, the paltry batteries in many 2010-2011 phones is another glaring issue. Heck it was THE reason this phone had totally lost my interest, as well as the AU IS03 (1020mAh? Seriously?), and almost made me NOT get an SH-13C...

I'm also concerned about the ~1500mAh batteries on the current Hd screen DoCoMo smartphones (F-05D, T-01D, SH-01D...) especially when LTE gets involved.

[tokyo_dom]

To be honest, I had almost forgotten battery issues, since i always have my 3200mAh mugen power battery in my 005SH. Everything enabled, always, and never having to care about battery life (well, barely - i still make it down to 30% after a day some times, but since i charge it every night it isnt an issue)

I have forgotten what it is like to have a thin phone like this 007SH though! (and i am now fully used to answering the question "yes, it is a big phone. Yes, i know you used to have one like that in the 90's")

I was a little disappointed that there are no long-life batteries available for the 007 though. Not even for the chinese market one? What about clear cases etc? Since it has terminals for a charging dock, i was thinking that if i had a clear case i could make my own 'extended battery' which didnt require opening the regular charging port.

[patrixl]

To be honest, I had almost forgotten battery issues, since i always have my 3200mAh mugen power battery in my 005SH. Everything enabled, always, and never having to care about battery life (well, barely - i still make it down to 30% after a day some times, but since i charge it every night it isnt an issue)

Damn lol, I get to about that with my 1230mAh battery in the SH-13C.. but I don't use it full-time, just some browsing, emailing, a bit of music, etc.

1500mAh battery in my Xperia Ray seems to fare better, but I'm only using it on WiFi, no 3G data enabled yet so that might skew the results. Still, it definitely seems to be in "awake" state way less often than my SH-13C, when I look at the battery stats, so I'm thinking Sharp or DoCoMo really messed something up on their Android phones. Not as bad a mess-up as putting a 840mAh battery but still lol

[yamanote]

To be honest, I had almost forgotten battery issues, since i always have my 3200mAh mugen power battery in my 005SH. Everything enabled, always, and never having to care about battery life (well, barely - i still make it down to 30% after a day some times, but since i charge it every night it isnt an issue)

I have forgotten what it is like to have a thin phone like this 007SH though! (and i am now fully used to answering the question "yes, it is a big phone. Yes, i know you used to have one like that in the 90's")

I was a little disappointed that there are no long-life batteries available for the 007 though. Not even for the chinese market one? What about clear cases etc? Since it has terminals for a charging dock, i was thinking that if i had a clear case i could make my own 'extended battery' which didnt require opening the regular charging port.

If you do manage to MacGyver a battery solution, I'd be very interested

[tokyo_dom]

You get similar battery life in your SH-13C? I'm talking about wifi, GPS, background data, facebook widget, pedometer, full brightness etc. Then again, it wouldnt surprise me if Sharp had improved things a bit since the 005SH. A short while back i went back to the standard battery (1140mAh?) without changing any settings, and i was down to 20% by 1pm without doing much at all

One thing that they do though, i havent noticed it on the 007SH, is that on my 005SH, the whole phone goes crazy slow when receiving or sending an MMS (email). If you are in another app, you can guess a message is coming because the phone just stops responding for a few seconds. I have a CPU monitor on my title bar, and it sits on 100% for about 10 seconds before my message tone goes off. Its like they are manually checking every single packet that is received by the phone

Damn lol, I get to about that with my 1230mAh battery in the SH-13C.. but I don't use it full-time, just some browsing, emailing, a bit of music, etc.

1500mAh battery in my Xperia Ray seems to fare better, but I'm only using it on WiFi, no 3G data enabled yet so that might skew the results. Still, it definitely seems to be in "awake" state way less often than my SH-13C, when I look at the battery stats, so I'm thinking Sharp or DoCoMo really messed something up on their Android phones. Not as bad a mess-up as putting a 840mAh battery but still lol

[cheeseus]

You get similar battery life in your SH-13C? I'm talking about wifi, GPS, background data, facebook widget, pedometer, full brightness etc. Then again, it wouldnt surprise me if Sharp had improved things a bit since the 005SH. A short while back i went back to the standard battery (1140mAh?) without changing any settings, and i was down to 20% by 1pm without doing much at all

One thing that they do though, i havent noticed it on the 007SH, is that on my 005SH, the whole phone goes crazy slow when receiving or sending an MMS (email). If you are in another app, you can guess a message is coming because the phone just stops responding for a few seconds. I have a CPU monitor on my title bar, and it sits on 100% for about 10 seconds before my message tone goes off. Its like they are manually checking every single packet that is received by the phone

There is a game I play on my 005SH - I'm really crazy about it - Tank Recon 3D (not, not true 3D), which takes about 35-40 MB of RAM. When the phone starts syncing data, including receiving an email, the game graphics start getting choppy and the tank is moving in jerks.

However, my phone seems to fare much better than yours (with the standard battery) when we talk about battery life... GPRS data is enabled all the time and the background data sync is ON all the time, and when fully charged in the morning, the bettery will go down to 75-65% in the late afternoon, a couple of calls made, several times checking my non-gmail email (must launch the browser), reading the news from the BBC app twice, stuff like that. Auto brightness, GPS off.