written by Peter Clarke on 17/02/2005
Good Points
Great phone with a great camera which takes great quality pictures. The MP3 player is great with a memory card which can be upgraded to 1 Gb. The disco lights caller id is also fantastic.
Bad Points
An SD card reader/writer to download songs from the computer.
General Comments
The Sharp GX30i is a great phone with severe restrictions. What is the point of having a phone which can accept a 1 Gb memory card in it but can only take videos up to 400 kb (about 1 minute). Also if you have a large memory card you can only download up to 100 kb onto the phone memory via bluetooth, bluetooth cannot access the memory card. That means you cannot exchange MP3 files with other phones and you need to buy a SD card reader/writer to download MP3 files to the memory card from the computer. My friends can all exchange MP3 files, pictures, soundfiles and themes which are larger than 100 kb 'cause their phones allow them to, but me and my GX30i cannot participate. I have to admit the camera is great and the picture quality is the best I've seen.