I have a Sharp GX32 mobile phone, and people know it's different, but let me tell you, it's the best phone I have ever used. Well for one, I used the Sharp GX10 with Vodafone live settings and pxt settings; I rang up Vodafone and they enabled the pxt settings "I said it was a Sharp GX30". Ha, now I have Vodafone live, and I can download the same as the normal Vodafone live phones. I got a larger battery for mine as well. This was $100 cheaper. 10/10. This phone is great!

Had a Sharp since the GX10, Brilliant phone in most ways, slightly larger but you get a lot in it. Amazing screen and camera most of the time. Plays games well, and feel nice and solid.
Shame about no MP3 tones and the Bluetooth which is locked to hand free only!!! Also rubbish reception compared to GX10/20.

Overall the sharp GX30 is a good phone, it has wonderful features and is stylish but it's just too big.

I love Sharp phones so I decided to upgrade from a GX10 to a GX30. It is a very smart looking phone, the camera is fantastic, the video is pretty good too! The only bad thing I have to say is the fact that when a word isn't in the T9 dictionary, in other Sharp phones you can spell the word out and save it to your dictionary but on this one you can't so you have to retype it everytime you use that word and to do that you have to keep going through the options menu and select input method and you're going backwards 'n forwards all the time, especially if you swear a lot like I do. But yeah, good phone in general.

Good points:
The Sharp GX30 is superb. The camera is magnificent giving brilliant pics. The lights are really good for a torch and flash, the photo effects are good, bomblink is very, very addictive the video camera is OK and the outer screen is good. However the screen is the best ting about it.

The bad points are:
Bad shutter speed, Mp3s being in one long list so you have to scroll through all of them, easily scratched, alarms don't go off if the phone is off like the NOKIA 3510i (which is a basic and poor phone) it doesn't have a stopwatch. Not very reliable (breaks down a lot)

Ordered this from FoneShop.com and had it delivered to me next day. 2 colour screens is a great touch and resolution on inside screen is particularly good - particularly when taking pix with the 1.3 megapixel camera. Nice to get photos that finally don't look like they were taken with a phone! Removable SD memory card is v useful for extra memory space. Only flaw is that it's quite chunky - but then what do you expect for a phone packed with this many features!

As most people who initially get this phone (Sharp GX30), I was impressed with the screen and the camera. However, after a few months of use, I want to go back to my SonyEricsson.

Firstly, the organiser is bad. You can't create reminders or have tasks. You can only have 3 items per day. It is very, very basic. You can't save a number to an existing contact!

Next, the phone will lose reception and you have to turn it off and on to get it back. This happens frequently.

It's such a shame it doesn't have proper Bluetooth. With object push, you could then share your photos between phones really easily. Unfortunately they haven't added that service to bluetooth.

The GUI looks bad. The icons are very poor, the menus are inconsistent. It could be more colourful and use the screens capabilities much more.

Finally, I have to recharge the phone EVERY day. Even if I don't use it that much.

The GX30 is an upgrade from a GX10i phone. I'm really pleased with it, it looks fantastic and is ten times better than my previous phone. Screen quality is fantastic, menu looks nice, easy to use, lots of memory and great camera. I only have one problem with it, I have an imac computer and am unable to download any of the photos I have taken (my memory's almost full). I bought a Bluetooth connector but no joy. Has anyone been able to do this?

I have had the Sharp GX30 phone now for over a week, and I think it is excellent! I am no photographer, musician or film maker so I found this phone to be everything I needed in a mobile. The picture quality for a phone is wonderful, you can take quality photos anywhere without thinking "Damn I forgot my camera" and also with a data suite be able to download it to your computer with ease.

I would recommend this to any phone user who is looking for a top quality solid phone with camera and video capability. The MP3 is ok but the mono headphones stop it from being in the top priorities of the phone, and as in previous reviews the calendar is useless really. I have used a Sharp phone now for the past 2 years, and must say the GX30 is one of the best so far! It has given me everything I need, from making 1minute video clips of my friends dancing in a night club, to pictures of my dog doing funny things. I LOVE IT!!

Sharp GX30 - Bluetooth - only connects to Sharp headsets and in-car kits. Doesn't connect to PC's via bluetooth, so really, really terrible.
InfraRed - can only be used as a modem from a PC. So really really awful.

What's the point of having these features if they can't be used properly, i.e., so I can transfer on ringtones and wallpapers, remove pictures taken by camera? Really bad design idea by Sharp.

Buy a Nokia if you need to do Bluetooth/IrDA transfers. Or you'll end up buying a bluetooth adapter only to discover the phone doesn't support it!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh yeah, quite expensive too.

At first glance the Sharp GX30 seems to be an impressive phone. It looks the part and feels very well put together. Toys are in their plenty, and anyone who has had a camera phone before is going to be amazed when they use the GX30's.

The camera has several resolution settings, with fine and normal quality. It has several levels of digital zoom (dependant on the resolution setting) and has shortcut keys to access features such as brightness level, flash (LED) setting and viewfinder (main / external display). Photo's taken on full quality a are impressive, with vivid colour and lots of detail. However, photo's taken in full quality are large (around 300k) and will soon fill up the phones memory, so purchasing a larger memory card is a must. (The Vodafone supplied 8mb is good for a start, but the snap happy user may want a 64 or 128mB so they don't have to keep deleting). These picture will also take around 5 seconds to save and will take forever to load thumbnails when looking through your picture album.

Gamers will love this phone, the display is amazing, with fast refresh rates and vivid colour.
The GX30 has a very tactile keypad too, with good size buttons and a sensible layout, making controlling your game quite easy.

The MP3 Player reads from the phone memory or the SD card, allowing several albums to be listened to (if you buy a large enough card). But sound quality isn't too amazing, only 5 volume levels are available and playback background noise is present with pops and crackles between tracks. In addition, the supplied earphone is mono and of poor quality. If only they had used a normal 3.5mm headphone jack!!.
One thing to be aware of, if you're thinking of using it as a personal stereo then beware. The MP3 playback will quickly flatten your battery, giving between 4-8 hours depending on volume.

The SD card slot is handy for not only MP3, but for storing your photo's on. Allowing the card to be removed and connected directly to a PC or printer for download or printing. Unfortunately, the SD card cannot be used for java applications, so memory for games is limited to the internal 6MB.

Bluetooth and an IR port are boasted for connectivity, but as many have noticed, the BT connection, is only available for hands free usage and not data. IR is available for modem connection and for the PC link up, but it would have been better if both IR and BT could be used for downloading and uploading files too!.

The calendar is a real let down, with space for entries galore, but no scheduling or To-Do / Reminder features at all.

Menu's are not flexible, shortcuts cannot be changed and are limited only to the pre programmed Vodafone system. Which although simple to use, is a bit dull and limiting for an experienced user.
My biggest shortcut gripe, is the way that the Text shortcut button, instantly changes to SOS as soon as signal is lost, meaning that in poor reception areas you may end up accidentally calling for help!!. NOT VERY CLEVER VODAFONE!!!

Last of all, Reception is very sensitive. In poor signal areas you can put the phone on your desk and be greeted with "No Network". However, if you then stand the phone with the antenna vertically in the same position, you suddenly have full signal indicated. Indeed this shows true as left on the desk horizontally, calls to the phone are announced as "Unavailable" meaning you have no signal. Put the phone upright and I can make and receive calls without any problem and walk happily around the building without so much as hiccup in the transmission / reception. (Incidentally, this is my 2nd GX30, as when the first one did this I assumed it was faulty and got it replaced immediately!)
In these poorer signal areas, (where you may or may not get a signal depending on which direction you leave the phone pointing in) the battery tends to last about 40 hours. This is with about 1 hour of calls and perhaps 1 hour of camera / game playing.

Bought my Sharp GX30 when it was released, upgraded from GX10i. Thought it was a little pricey, even with my contract reduction was a shade over £200.

Was a little disappointed with only the one game acommpanyment. Also wish they'd allow more characters per text, I've done text before now, then when sending, is multiple sms (2-3+).

Good phone all-in-all.

I had to wait to receive my Sharp GX30 for over three weeks due to nowhere having any in stock, was it worth the wait? Most definitely, this is by far the best phone I have ever used or seen (this is the first time I haven't had a Nokia phone), my girlfriend has the GX10 and that constantly keeps turning its self off I was worried this would happen to me but not once in over 2 months.

I took it on holiday with me instead of my camera and it was so much easier I have great pictures from the holiday and also a video of around the Villa were I stayed.

The only problems I have found is that the Bluetooth doesn't seem to work very well, I can find other peoples phones but they never seem to be able to find mine, and also it sometimes to struggle for a reception when in clubs when my friends have reception's on their phones, apart from these little problem the phone has no other problems and is very easy to use.

I bought this phone after reading a reviews on the internet, and boy were they right in saying that the Sharp GX30 is an incredible phone.

I bought my GX30 for £250 off eBay, brand new and unlocked, and I think it's the bargain of the century. My previous mobile was a Motorola V500, yep, it's a nice phone, however it was heavy, did not have memory expansion, didn't have an mp3 player, nor did it have a good camera. In fact, the camera on it was terrible.

However, me being a keen photographer, I just had to get the GX30 after hearing it had a 1 Mega Pixel Camera. This is nothing compared to a digital camera, however it's a leap in phone photography.

Anyway, after taking a few photos I was just amazed at how good the quality was, and the phone even has a macro button for close ups, and it actually works to perfection. Pure quality.

The phone is also SD Memory expandable, so I stuck my 256MB Card in full of MP3s, and they all worked to perfection. Sound quality was great, through earphones, and loud speaker.

The phone also boasts a very impressive exterior screen, which is only small, however it has 65,000 colours in it, just like previous colour phones had on the interior screen. Incredible. I also forgot to mention, that the inside screen has also been upgraded to over 200,000 colours, which makes it looked sharper and cleaner than ever.

Anyway, I could brag about the phone for hours. So I will stop here. It has just to many features. However, however good the phone is, it ain't perfect. A small thing that irritates me, is the camera, yes its incredible and the best camera a phone has EVER had, but its still a bit juddery, and can't keep up with quick movements, the video recorder is also the same. However, it doesn't bother me much, as all my photos are mainly taken as still images.

The second problem is to do with the MP3 player. Yes it works amazingly, however the phone will not take standard head-phones, the socket is too big. The phone comes with a hands free kit, which means u can listen to your music in one ear, but not both. You will need to buy the headphone set from Sharp to use it properly.

Lastly, there's the Bluetooth. It only works for things like Bluetooth headsets etc, it doesn't allow you to transfer files, why? I don't know, it just doesn't. However, I don't use Bluetooth, and all you have to do to transfer files is to put the SD Memory card into a card reader, and hey presto, you can transfer you photos, videos, mp3s and other bits straight to your PC in seconds.

Anyway, the phones good points out do the bad points 10 times over. This is truely a remarkable phone. I would highly recommend this for its incredible features, it's way ahead of any other phone at the moment.

... StevoTarantino

I bought this phone a few days ago now, and after using it for a while I came to the conclusion that it was an incredible phone. I have been using the features like mad. Before I had a Panasonic GD87, and I liked taking photos, but with the quality, there was no point in really doing so. However, now with a 1 megapixel camera, I find myself using it constantly.

I also put a 512 SD Memory card in the phone, (which I bought off www.ebuyer.com at a very good price!). And now, I store a massive amount of music on, and quality is perfect. I can also store masses of vids and pics on this aswell.

The phone looks and feels great. Easy to use, and an awful lot of great features. One downfall however was the bluetooth. I wanted to use this for data transfer however, after buying I found it wouldn't do this. However, I splashed out a whole "£8" on a card reader, and I can copy and edit pics, vids and mp3s on my PC in no time at all. It's quicker than Bluetooth too!

That is the only downfall I could find and apart from that, the phone was bullet proof. Highly reccomended!

I think the Sharp GX30 is definitely the best phone around and by far, this time next year it will still be a very modern phone. The screens quality is superb even in direct sunlight and the exterior screen means you can select a portion of a picture as a small wallpaper. The camera itself delivers what most people would expect from a budget digital camera if not better, I managed to resize to A4 and there was still a good quality picture.

I have heard many people criticise the phones size (slightly bigger than the GX20) but what do you expect with the worlds highest resolution camera phone, MP3 player and organiser?

It has a built in 2.5 mm jack socket so you can listen to MP3s in mono (or buy stereo headphones separately) and the sound quality is quite good, although obviously not the same standard as coming through an actual MP3 player.

The battery takes about 2 hours to charge and can last an unbelievable amount of time. I have managed to go a full day with calls, using the camera and messing around without the first battery bar to even move, whether it "jumps" quickly I'm not sure of yet.

Overall the phone is a very smart and sophisticated piece of technology. For those who'd like an expensive, good looking toy I'd highly recommend it however if you'd prefer phones that don't do so much then save yourself some money and don't bother!

The Sharp GX30 mobile phone comes with the usual - phone, battery, charger, pc software cd, looooooong manual etc but unlike many older models, extended memory in the form of an 8MB SD card - upgradeable to a larger size if needs be.

I have only had the phone two days so i am only basing this review on the features i have used.

The first thing that hit me was the sheer quality of the screen, it is way behond any phone i have seen, apart from maybe the SE P900.

The phone i had previously was the Nokia 7650. I thought the screen on that was great but i would only rate it at about 30% of the GX30's screen, its THAT good.

I guess most people will be attracted to this phone because of the 1 MEGAPIXEL camera. Well it is outstanding - well beyond my old 7650.

There are 5 different picture sizes to choose from ranging from Small (120 X 160) to XL (858 X 1144) with the amount of zoom decreasing with the larger picture size. For example the small picture size has a 20 step zoom while the large has a 4 step.

You can alter the brightness while taking the picture and use the light (which doubles up as a torch) to help in darker situations.

To sum up the screen/pictures they have to be seen to be believed, i can gurantee you will not be dissapointed.

I am currently waiting for my SD card reader before i begin transferring files to and from my pc, including MP3's (yes, the phone also doubles up as a MP3 player).

The only major problems i have found are the inability to change the colour theme - because the phone is a Vodafone exclusive the theme is red. Also the bluetooth feature is only used for handsfree headsets not data transfer.

If you want a good phone with a second to none camera then this is your answer!

The Sharp GX30 mobile phone looks great but tries to be too many things. The Mp3 player is mono output (tried using a .5 jack)so you will need to purchase stereo headphones directly from sharp . Bluetooth is voice only. Using a higher MB SD card drains the battery. The menu system is difficult to navigate, its not possible to organise pics into folders and it seems to take the phone a long time to open pictures and applications.

This Sharp GX30 mobile phone makes a nice impression if you see it at the store. After using it for about 2 months now, i am quite disappointed by it.
The phone simply lacks some very basic features you would expect from every phone by now.
For instance, there is a calendar where you can make notes for specific dates. But you can't put an alarm or reminder on them. What's the use of it then anyway?????
There is a MP3-player, but you don't get a good headphone with it and the output with a stereo headphone is a converted mono signal with a bad quality. Then, what's the use of it?
It has Bluetooth, but only for headsets and carsets, not for synchronizing your pc. Why?
The phone has a lot of these problems.
Don't buy it!

I bought this Sharp GX30 mobile phone at the start of the week. A day after it arrived, I had decided to send it back. Why? Because between them, Sharp and Vodafone UK have crippled the phone so much as to make it nigh on unusable.

Firstly, the bluetooth implementation only supports the use of headphones, so no transfer between phone and computer. That will require an extra, expensive, lead.

Secondly, even if you have the lead, you can not install java apps on the phone this way. In fact, I found that the only way to install anything on this phone is to download paid-for apps from Vodafone Live.

Thirdly, the addition of an SD card is great, but you can not even install applications from this.

It is a real shame, the phone is nice to use, the screen and camera are excellent, and in every other sense, it is a nice phone.

However, the bluetooth crippling and points described above make this phone one to absolutely avoid if you plan on doing anything other than making calls and taking pictures.