In the end of June, Sharp released a reworked version of the Hybrid W-Zero3 for the Chinese market. This is the first smart phone that Sharp make for Chinese users, yet it's just a tad less smart than we'd like it to be.
Keeping the same specs as on the WS027SH, Sharp made the following changes: the added a GSM module instead of the Willcom PHS radio module,...
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The W-Zero3 line by Sharp and Willcom has made a glorius return after a nearly 2-year silence on that front. The HYBRID W-ZERO3 (WS027SH), on sale in Japanese stores from 28th January 2010, is a glorious return: with 3.5 inches of FWVGA (854x480) screen, a Qualcomm MSM7200A ARM11 528MHz processor, 256MB RAM, 512MB ROM, a PHS and WCDMA phone - UNLOCKED,...
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After a one-year pause, in May 2008, the Japanese operator Willcom announced a new portable device made by Sharp - the WS016SH, a.k.a Willcom D4. This device, however, runs Windows Vista (can be downgraded to Win XP), has an Intel Atom 1.33 GHz processor (the first UMPC to feature Intel's Atom processors), 1 GB of RAM (533MHz DDR2)...
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The EM ONE was soon (in October 2007) followed by an upgrade model, now running WM6, known as the EM ONE alpha or S01SH II. Besides the Windows upgrade, there are almost no changes but for a business card scanner being added.
In certain aspects, the EM ONE falls behind its contemporary, the WS011SH: weight - the S01SH weighs the...
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Working with an emerging Japanese data operator, EMOBILE, Sharp produced another WM device for the operator's market debut, the EM ONE, model name S01SH. Released in May 2007, the device has a 4.1 inch WVGA (800x480px) display, 128 MB of RAM and 512 MB of ROM, and comes equipped with a NVIDIA graphics accelerator, the GoForce 5500....
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Willcom and Sharp's next device, hitting the market in July 2008, is named Willcom 03, model name WS020SH, and it signalled the end of the W-ZERO3 lineup. The device, however, is very reminiscent of its predecessor (3-inch WVGA screen) and has the same form factor but with a switchable touch-panel front keypad, and weighing just 135...
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The next in line, the W-ZERO3 ad[es], the WS011SH advanced [es] device came out in July 2007. Even lighter than the previous model, weighing 157 grams, it sports 128 MB of SDRAM and 256 MB of ROM with a 520 MHz Marvell PXA270 processor and now runs Windows Mobile 6 (Windows CE 5.2). Wireless LAN connectivity was restored, but now Bluetooth...
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In September 2006, the W-ZERO3[es], the WS007SH, was released, boasting a revamped form factor, weighing just 175 grams (compared to the W-ZERO3 and its 220 grams). The screen size is much smaller - down to 2.8 inches - of course with a VGA resolution, but ROM size was decreased to 128 MB. Besides the form factor change, the W-ZERO3[es]...
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Shortly after the first W-ZERO3, in July 2006, an upgraded version, the WS004SH, was released, featuring a slightly improved system having 256 MB of ROM (197 MB accessible to the user) and Windows CE, version 5.1.195. Infrared and Bluetooth connectivity were also added, including a pre-installed Opera 8.6.
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W-ZERO3 is the name for the Windows Mobile Pocket PCs Sharp produced together with Japanese operator Willcom. The first W-ZERO3, the WS003SH, was released in Japan in mid-December 2005 and was Japan's first WM5 device and the first to feature a full QWERTY keyboard.
The WS003SH has 64 MB of SDRAM, 128 MB of ROM (60 MB accessible), an Intel XScale Marvell PXA270...
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