Created: 15 March 2010 · Last edited: 15 March 2018
Working with emerging Japanese data operator, EMOBILE, Sharp made another Windows Mobile 5 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 (800 x 480 px) Mobile Advanced Super View (ASV) display, boasting the impressive 160° viewing angles in all directions. The EM ONE is the first and only WM5 device to have this high a resolution – it is only supported as of WM6 – but was made possible over a special collaboration project between Sharp and Microsoft.
The EM ONE is powered by a Marvell® PXA 270 processor clocked at 520 MHz, has a discrete video graphics accelerator by NVIDIA, the GoForce 5500, 128 MB of RAM, and 512 MB of onboard storage (390 MB user-accessible), expandable using microSD cards of up to 2 GB.
Connectivity options include: HSDPA/W-CDMA (1.7 / 2.4 GHz) – no voice communication, only data, Wi-Fi b/g, Bluetooth 1.2, OneSeg TV tuner. Wi-Fi only works if the EMOBILE USIM card is inserted (any SIM card with a SoftBank-compatible HyperSIM atached will also do).
The EM ONE has a set of quite powerful stereo speakers on each side of the display.
A 1.3-megapixel camera is also installed that supports a manual (hardware) switching to macro mode. The camera can also record video in the WMV format (320 × 240 or QVGA).
The EM ONE measures 70 x 140 x 18.9 millimetres and weighs 250 grams.
It has a removable 1500 mAh battery, which can be upgraded to a 2000 mAh one.
To me the most impressive feature of the EM ONE is its dual-slide keyboard. Beside the standard QWERTY keyboard that is revealed when you slide it out and down, which also has 6-directional navigation cursor and a mouse-button above it, they keyboard can also slide out to the right, only revealing the navigation cursor and mouse button. The large 4.1-inch screen also allows the user to use his fingers – I've barely used the stylus. And there's also a scroller wheel for fast scrolling of content on the right edge of the device that's accessible without opening the keyboard. This is the most comfortable hardware keyboard arrangement I have ever seen. If Shap would release a modern upgraded version of the EM ONE, I'd be the first to buy it.
Specifications
- Display: 4.1 inches, 800 × 480 px — Mobile ASV LCD
- CPU: Marvell XScale (PXA270) — 520 MHz
- Rear camera:
- 1.3 MP
- QVGA
- Battery: 1500 mAh (removable)
- Operating system: Windows Mobile
- OS version at launch: 5.0
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EM ONE
S01SH
- Waterproofing: None
- Dustproofing: None
- Operating memory (RAM): 128 MB
- Built-in storage memory: 512 MB
- External storage: miniSD, 2 GB
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EM ONE α
S01SH2
- Waterproofing: None
- Dustproofing: None
- Operating memory (RAM): 128 MB
- Built-in storage memory: 512 MB
- External storage: miniSD, 2 GB
The EM ONE was soon (in October 2007) followed by an upgrade model, now running Windows Mobile 6, known as the EM ONE alpha or S01SH II. Besides the Windows upgrade, there are almost no changes but for the addition of a business card scanner.
In certain aspects, the EM ONE falls behind its contemporary, the WS011SH: weight — the S01SH weighs the intimidating 250 g in contrast with the 157 grams of the WS011SH, and has a not particularly good 1.3-megapixel camera.
Further performance problems arise because of NVIDIA's total abandonment of support deciding to never release drivers for the graphics adapter, rendering the EM ONE and a few other like-equipped devices rather poor in terms of video performance. Nevertheless, watching HD videos (720p) is something you can't normally do on the majority of devices available even two years after release.
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