Created: 7 December 2011 · Last edited: 7 September 2026

In late 2011, having a removable battery + waterproof body + physical keypad + Qi charging + mobile wallet + digital TV in one smartphone was a remarkably Japanese piece of engineering. Behold the SH-02D by NTT Docomo, launching in December as part of their Winter 2011/Spring 2012 collection.

The AQUOS Phone slider SH-02D is almost identical to The Hybrid 101SH in terms of hardware but has a very different looking body: angled vs rounded corners.

The AQUOS Phone slider has a 3.7-inch screen comes with a QHD resolution of 540 x 960 pixels. Being a mid-range device, it has the older type of LCD that is capable of reproducing 262,144 colours (16-bit depth).

But it offers wireless charging: the SH32 Qi charger can juice up either the phone or a spare battery; and it's bundled with the phone.

The slider is powered by the now old single-core Snapdragon S2 MSM8255, clocked at 1.0 GHz, has 512 MB of RAM and 2 GB of ROM, which makes it quite underpowered in comparison with the higher models released this winter.

The sh-02D has an 8 MP CMOS camera that can also shoot HD videos. Among other features, the auto-focus shooter can auto-detect the face of your pet and snap a beautiful picture of it automatically.

Standard features include Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0 + EDR, Infrared (including IrSimple/IrSS), 1Seg TV, Mobile Wallet, DLNA and AQUOS LINK. Wi-Fi tethering is also available.