Created: 23 October 2026

Sharp China has announced three smartphones for 2011 and the first one to be released is the SH8138U.

This is a low-end device that has little to brag about. The resistive single-touch screen measures 3.2 inches diagonally, which is about the minimum useful estate you can get on an Android smartphone. But the resolution is good: 800 × 480 means image and text quality should be very decent. It's still a very small screen in the middle of a rather big body: the display occupies just 46.15% of the phone's front surface.

The SH8138U has only a rear-facing camera – a very humble one, indeed, with a 2-megapixel CMOS sensor and without a LED flash.

The phone is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 (MSM7227) processor clocked at 600 MHz, has 512 MB of RAM and 512 MB of onboard storage (of which about 150 MB are accessible to the user). MicroSD cards are supported. The App2SD functionality is supported, which allows moving installed apps from the onboard memory to the SD card.

The Sharp SH8138U supports W-CDMA (900/1900 MHz) and GSM (900/18000/1900 MHz) frequencies. Additional connectivity methods include Bluetooth 2.0 and USB 2.0. No Wi-Fi and no infrared.

The phone measures 110.8 × 57 × 13.3 mm and weighs 138 grams. It is only offered in white.

The phone's purchase package includes a USB data cable, a pair of headphones, a charger, and a stylus.