Created: 5 February 2018 · Last edited: 21 September 2026

If the R1 wasn't enough, here's more of the same, only a tad better. FIH Mobile Limited, a subsidiary of Foxconn, continues its rather shameful exploitation of the Sharp brand with the Sharp R1S (FS8028), a low-end smartphone aimed at the Asian market. And yes, it is yet another Sharp-branded device that has rather more to do with Foxconn than with the company whose name is printed on it.

The Sharp R1S features a 5.5-inch IPS display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 px (HD), covered by 2.5D glass, made by God knows who but certainly not Sharp.

The Sharp R1S is equipped with a dual rear camera comprising one 13-megapixel and one 5-megapixel sensor, both with aperture f/2.0, and with a 5-megapixel front camera with aperture f/2.4.

This abuse of the Sharp brand is powered by a MediaTek MT6750 processor having 8 cores, each with a maximum operating frequency of 1.5 GHz. The amount of RAM is 3 GB and the amount of on-board storage (ROM) is 32 GB.

This smartphone supports radio frequencies in the LTE (incl. VoLTE), 3G, and GSM bands. The phone supports dual-SIM card operation.

Supported are Bluetooth 4.2 and Wi-Fi b/g/n at 2.4 GHz. The Sharp R1S even has a fingerprint scanner and a microSD card slot.

The battery capacity is 5000 mAh. Read that again – five thousand mili-Amper-hours! Apparently, somebody at FIH Mobile has discovered that the easiest way to improve a budget phone is simply to stuff a bigger battery into it.

The Sharp R1S runs Android 7.0 Nougat.

This device appears to be an upgraded version of the Sharp R1 (FS8014), which was launched in Indonesia in October 2017. The improvements are hardly revolutionary, but they do include:

• Processor – the R1 uses the MediaTek MT6737 having four cores clocked at 1.25 GHz, whereas the R1S gets the considerably more powerful octa-core MT6750 at up to 1.5 GHz.
• Display – the R1 has a 5.2-inch display, while the R1S stretches this to 5.5 inches. The resolution remains 1280 x 720 px (HD).
• Camera – the R1 has a single 13 MP f/2.2 sensor on the rear and an 8 MP sensor on the front, while the R1S adds a second 5 MP rear sensor but actually downgrades the front camera to 5 MP f/2.4.
• Battery – the R1 has a 4000 mAh battery, while the R1S gets a whopping 5000 mAh.