Created: 15 February 2012 · Last edited: 8 September 2026

DoCoMo's Q-pot series features phones inspired by chocolate. Yes, really. And the SH-04D is the first smartphone in the deliciously eccentric series. Its predecessors, the SH-04C and SH-04B, were "ordinary" keitai running DoCoMo's proprietary OS, but this one takes the chocolate concept into the smartphone era.

Code-named SH-04D, the Q-pot smartphone runs Android 2.3 and features a 3.7-inch 940 × 560 display. Inside is the by-now ubiquitous 1 GHz single-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S2, accompanied by 512 MB of RAM and 2 GB of ROM.

The chocolate may be decorative, but the camera is quite serious: an 8-megapixel shooter capable of recording HD video.

And then there is the Chocobed — a wireless charging dock designed to look like a little chocolate bed for the phone. The SH-04D also packs most of the usual Japanese-market goodies, including Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0, infrared, Mobile Wallet and more. The notable omission is One Seg TV. It supports both 3G and GSM frequencies, too.

Like many of Sharp's contemporary smartphones, the SH-04D is waterproof, so at least you don't have to worry about your chocolate melting in the rain.