Sharp 9225H- phone with a MID keyboard
In the "at least it’s not the same old, same old" department, AVING has spotted a handset from Sharp that looks and acts like a MID. The 9225H is surprisingly small and thin yet has a Sharp Zaurus-like keyboard inside that looks pretty darn functional. It has a 3.5-inch wide VGA screen and a little LED display on the outside while in handset mode for phone functions. This will probably never step foot out of Asia but it’s great to see something totally different.
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If I recall correctly this is just a “normal” Japanese CellPhone such as the 922SH sold by SoftBank in Japan.
The 922SH sold by SoftBank is actually a Sharp handset a little bit like the Nokia E90/Communicators.
The 9225SH seems like an upgraded/renewed 922SH from Sharp.
Links:
http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news_details.php?id=15433
And:
http://mb.softbank.jp/mb/en/product/3g/922sh/
Still a nice phone, although the 1-Seg, internet and other nice goodies only work in japan combined with a SoftBank contract.
I don’t know why, but to me it looks like something Casio would have made in the 80s.
And that’s a good thing!
SoftBank doesn’t designate its phones with 4 numeric digits. It’s always 3, followed by one or two letters (of the manufacturer), as seen in their lineup page: http://mb.softbank.jp/mb/en/product/lineup/3g/index.html
Basically this “9225H” or “9225SH” is a complete mistake. The correct designation should be the 922SH, which is definitely an internet oriented device. It’s been out for a few months now. If SoftBank were to upgrade this or any other model, they would use a slightly different 3 number ID, not bumping the digit count to 4. Not to nitpick, but even Engadget was foolish enough to post this same news and they have a good sense of Japanese phone naming schemes.
Otherwise the device itself is very interesting =) The form factor resembles the enV/2 on VZW, which is probably a first in the Japanese market (the majority of phones are flip/clamshells). Such a shame internet functions on their phones are only usable in Japan. All their phones have amazing 3 inch screens with WVGA resolution in nice sleek clamshell phones, which would be great for web browsing =(