Sharp GX30 Mobile Review
The GX30 is still a fairly conventional looking silver clamshell with a layout that’s instantly recognisable from the rest of the range. It still has a large 240×320 pixel colour display, and the size and weight is virtually unchanged from the GX20. The large, friendly navigation key is still unchanged and the phone retains the ease of use of it’s predecessors.
The GX30 has several major improvements. One of the strengths of the GX20 was the VGA resolution camera. The GX30 goes better with a 1.1 megapixel resolution camera – the highest resolution of any phone currently on the European market – with three and a half times the pixels of the old model.
The screen, although the same large size as the GX20, has been upgraded to 262,000 colours. Instead of a tri-band phone, the GX30 is a quad-band phone. The GX20 didn’t have Bluetooth – the GX30 does. In addition to all of this, the GX30 takes SD memory expansion cards and can play MP3s. The GX30 also has a much larger external display than the older phone.
The GX30 also supports WAP over GPRS, Java for games, polyphonic ringtones, infra-red and cable connectivity and has a multicoloured flash/torch.
GX30 has pretty much everything and beats the competition hands down. One of the few missing features in a POP3 email client, but also it’s likely that the battery life will be a little short at around 3.5 hours talktime. And for such an impressive feature set, the GX30’s styling is a little predictable and silvery.