Created: 30 May 2012 · Last edited: 9 September 2026

The PANTONE 5 SoftBank 107SH is a colourful addition to the Summer 2012 SoftBank collection – it comes in eight different colours, including Roman Black, Roman White, Roman Pink, Roman Vivid Pink, Roman Purple, Roman Blue, Roman Yellow and Roman Orange.

It is, as usual, an Android slab running Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), the popular OS now rapidly overtaking the Japanese smartphone market. The PANTONE 107SH comes with a 3.7-inch New Mobile ASV display with FWVGA resolution (854 × 480 pixels) – quite sufficient for those not obsessed with having their phone's pixel count measure up to their television's.

It is powered by a single-core Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 running at 1.4 GHz and has 1 GB of RAM and 4 GB of built-in storage. External storage can be expanded using microSDHC cards of up to 32 GB, with a 2 GB card supplied with the phone.

Built in is a modest 4.9-megapixel CMOS autofocus camera, capable of recording 1280 × 720 HD video, together with a 0.3-megapixel CMOS front-facing camera for video calls and self-portraits. The camera can also be launched particularly quickly, taking approximately 0.4 seconds to become ready for use.

The PANTONE 107SH is equipped with Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0, infrared, GPS, One Seg digital TV and FeliCa-based mobile wallet functions. It supports W-CDMA at 900 MHz, 1.5 GHz and 2.1 GHz, including SoftBank's new 900 MHz "Platinum Band", but does not support GSM.

It does, however, have one rather extraordinary feature: a built-in radiation measurement function. The 107SH is the world's first smartphone to incorporate a radiation sensor, according to SoftBank's launch announcement. Using a silicon semiconductor sensor and a dedicated Sharp-developed IC, the phone can measure ambient gamma radiation in the range of 0.05 to 9.99 µSv/h. It can perform continuous measurements or carry out a longer, more accurate measurement of a particular location, with the results also capable of being recorded on a map.

The PANTONE 107SH is also the first waterproof smartphone in the PANTONE series, with IPX5/IPX7 water resistance and IP5X dust resistance. It measures 115 × 58 × 12 mm and weighs just 116 grams, while its 1460 mAh battery provides up to approximately 530 minutes of talk time.

Upon release, the phone runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. It receives subsequent software updates, but remains on Android 4.0 rather than receiving a major Android version upgrade.

The PANTONE 107SH is released on 14 July 2012. In December 2012, a Disney Mobile version is launched under the DM013SH moniker.