Created: 29 May 2011 · Last edited: 19 October 2026

The AQUOS PHONE f, code-named SH-13C, is the second phone in DoCoMo's Summer 2011 collection. It is the "smaller brother" of the flagship SH-12C, minus the 3D screen and with a display that's half an inch smaller diagonally, at 3.7", but with the same pixel-packed resolution of 960 × 540 px.

The Summer 2011 collection is the first in which the new naming convention for phones, AQUOS PHONE, is used. In the SH-13C, the "f" in the AQUOS PHONE f name stands for "fit" and reflects a design intended to fit users' lifestyles (as Sharp's representatives explained at the phone's launch event).

The "f" isn't simply smaller – it has a couple of tricks of its own. For starters, it is water-resistant and dust-proof, with IPX5/IPX7 water resistance and IP5X dust protection. The SH-12C offers neither. Until now, only Sharp's feature phones, keitai garaho, were water- and dust-resistant. the And, in another first for Sharp's smartphones, it supports wireless charging using the Qi standard.

The camera uses the same 8-megapixel CMOS sensor as the SH-12C. The only difference is that the SH-12C has two of them, which provide its 3D capability. The SH-13C also has autofocus and electronic image stabilisation.

All phones in the AQUOS PHONE series can use the new 14 Mbps network, which became available in July 2011.

The SH-13C runs Android Gingerbread (v. 2.3) and has the same connectivity options: Wi-Fi (b/g/n), Bluetooth 3.0, infrared, microUSB 2.0 (high speed), W-CDMA and GSM.

It is powered by a Snapdragon S2 MSM8255 processor clocked at 1 GHz, backed by 512 MB of RAM and 2 GB of onboard storage. The latter can be expanded using microSDHC cards of up to 32 GB.