Created: 22 June 2025 · Last edited: 28 September 2026

The Summer 2025 collection also features the low-end Aquos wish5, which is available as a SIM-free device (SH-M32), on Docomo (SH-52F), on SofBank's Y!Mobile subsidiary, and on Rakuten Mobile, as well as in Taiwan and Singapore.

The Aquos wish5 is a fairly good device with an odd combination of low and high specs.

It has a 6.6-inch display with the low resolution of 720 x 1612 px but with a 120 Hz refresh rate. It uses Sharp's Rich Color Technology Mobile to deliver colours that will probably be more than good for its price range.

The Aquos wish5 comes with a big 5000 mAh battery that is advertised as capable of ensuring about 23 hours of watching HD videos (pre-downloaded) or about 138 hours of listening to music.

The intelligent charge technology found on other, higher-end models, is available here, too: it controls charging according to the device's usage situation to prevent overheating. This is advertised as helping preserve battery life at 90% even after three years of use.

The Aquos wish5 is water-resistant, dust-proof, and shock-proof (tested to withstand drops from 1.2 metres height on a concrete floor).

The phone's body is made of 60% recycled plastic and has a low VOC-coating (volatile organic compounds) to have a lower level of pollution.

The new Miyake-design approach is employed for the Aquos wish5, too, like for the Aqous R8 and Aquos R9 – where the camera and flash are "wrapped" in a free-form ring.

The phone is primarily targeted at elderly users or children, which is why it offers large icons, easy-to-read and understand labels, simple and intuitive menus. For its Japanese users, two special text fonts are available to ensure excellent visibility in natural form: "Tatsugane Goths Info" and "UD Sansanmaru Gothic", which is also used in Japanese textbooks.

A special telephone assistant will take care of nuisance or suspicious calls by blocking them or alerting the user, and – if the user is unable to take the call – will listen to and transcribe the message (if one is left).

Another safety feature is the Crime Alert: shaking the smartphone vigorously will make a loud alarm go off and simultaneously share alert information with preset contacts.

The rear camera on the Aquos wish5 is 51 megapixels (f/1.8) and offers two special modes: night-mode and portrait. It's also wide-angle (79° field of view) and has electronic image stabilisation for video.

The Taiwan/Singapore version of the AQUOS wish (SH-M32TW and SH-M32SG) has an auxiliary 1.9-megapixel sensor. No details are provided but I assume it helps create the bokeh effect in portrait mode.

To make it easy to take a selfie without needing to press the shutter button, the 8-megapixel front-facing camera (f/2.0) can take a photo if you spread the palm of your hand towards it. Camera stabilisation for images and electronic image stabilisation for video are also available.

The phone comes with a single mono speaker that can't produce high-resolution sound but it has a 3.5 mm audio jack to let you enjoy music on your headphones.

The Aquos wish5 is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 6300 processor equipped with two 2.4 GHz cores and six 2.0 GHz cores. It has 4 GB of operating memory (LPDDR4X), which can be supplemented with 2 or 4 GB of virtual RAM, giving the equivalent of up to 8 GB of memory. Onboard storage varies among 64, 128, and 256 GB, with the exact configuration depending on the carrier or territory.

The AQUOS wish5 supports the following radio communication frequency bands:

• 5G NR (sub6): n1 / n3 / n7 / n28 / n38 / n40 / n41 / n77 / n78 / n79
• 4G LTE (FDD-LTE): B1 / B2 / B3 / B5 / B7 / B8 / B12 / B17 / B18 / B19 / B28
• 4G LTE (TD-LTE): B38 / B39 / B40 / B41
• 3G W-CDMA: B1 / B5 / B8
• 2G GSM: 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz

* Bold frequencies are supported by the Japanese versions only, while underlined frequencies are supported by overseas versions only. Frequencies supported by both Japanese and overseas versions are shown in regular text.

The full range of Global Navigation Satellite Systems is supported: GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS.

The AQUOS wish5 is, traditionally, water-resistant, dust-resistant, and shock-resistant. However, the water-resistance protection level now also includes IPX9.

The Aquos wish5 measures 166 mm × 76 mm × 8.8 mm and weighs 187 grams.

It is released running Android 15. Two OS updates are guaranteed and security updates for a period of four years after release.

About seven months after the wish5 was launched in Taiwan, a new variant dubbed the AQUOS wish5s appeared there (SH-M34TW), followed several months later by a Singapore release (SH-M34SG). Read below for the differences.