New Phone Rocks On.

InfinitumInfinitum Anime Encyclopedia Join Date: 2002-08-08 Member: 1111Members, Constellation
About a week ago my mum brought home a new phone for herself, I played with it for about 5min and just went "I'm buying one"

A few days later I walk into a store, buy the phone outright and I am in love.

My new phone is a <a href='http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22Sharp+GX-20%22&meta=' target='_blank'>Sharp GX-20</a>

It's such a joy to use.
Digital Camera
Digital Video
Games
Mobile Internet
240x320 colour screen (Which is huge for a phone)
Polyphonic ringtones.
The works.

It's great, it also uses Vodafone's Live network. Hell it's got a button on the phone to connect to it. I can download games, ringtones, read the news, check out movie times.

Some of the games I've already downloaded are:
Worms
Castlevania
Prince of Persia
Gradius

Too bad it doesn't have any FPS... oh well. I forgive it.

Sorry. Just felt I had to share. The phone is awesome.

Comments

  • CForresterCForrester P0rk(h0p Join Date: 2002-10-05 Member: 1439Members, Constellation
    Why not just buy a PDA? Probably cheaper, these days.
  • InfinitumInfinitum Anime Encyclopedia Join Date: 2002-08-08 Member: 1111Members, Constellation
    Because a PDA isn't a phone...
  • JediYoshiJediYoshi The Cupcake Boss Join Date: 2002-05-27 Member: 674Members
    Nice, pr0n on the move.
  • MantridMantrid Lockpick Join Date: 2003-12-07 Member: 24109Members
    Forgive me, I am a mere child...




    Was there ever a time when people actually used phones to, ya' know, talk to people?
  • RaVeRaVe Join Date: 2003-06-20 Member: 17538Members
    OMG wth Inf got worms!!

    Now I want that phone!
  • MedHeadMedHead Join Date: 2002-12-19 Member: 11115Members, Constellation
    edited March 2004
    <!--QuoteBegin-Mantrid+Mar 21 2004, 03:11 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mantrid @ Mar 21 2004, 03:11 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Forgive me, I am a mere child...




    Was there ever a time when people actually used phones to, ya' know, talk to people? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Heh, I know what you mean. I'm not a big fan of "combo" electronics. If I want to take a picture, I'll use a camera. If I want to play a portable game, I'll use a game player (like the GameBoy). If I want to listen to music, I'll use a MP3/CD player. If I want to talk to people, I'll use a phone. Too often these days, people seem to get caught up in the combo toys, and never seem to notice that the product dissappoints in almost every department. Sure, there are exceptions, but they're rare.

    I laugh at the commercials that rationalize the price of a digital camera phone with comments like "When you <b>really</b> need a camera, and you don't have one handy, use our phone to take a picture!" Supposedly, all the <b>good</b> shots pass one by when one doesn't have a camera. I'd like to know how the low resolution, grainy, pixelated little thumbnail excuse of a picture these camera phones generate are going to help me out in getting that ever elusive "super" photo. Somehow, after looking at the quality of the picture, and then at the cellular bill, one ponders the point of it all.

    But even if this phone did all the above admirably, the fact remains these things are <b>pricey.</b> Waaaay too expensive to make them worthwhile, at least for me. I can twiddle my thumbs for free...
  • InfinitumInfinitum Anime Encyclopedia Join Date: 2002-08-08 Member: 1111Members, Constellation
    <a href='http://www.mobileburn.com/review.jsp?Page=14&Id=464' target='_blank'>Sample pictures taken with the GX20</a>

    Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
  • PykmiPykmi Join Date: 2003-04-14 Member: 15473Members
    That's one nice looking phone. How much does it cost?

    Even though I'm happy with my Nokia 3300.
  • InfinitumInfinitum Anime Encyclopedia Join Date: 2002-08-08 Member: 1111Members, Constellation
    Well I had $500 I choose to repay over a 24 month period ($21 bucks a month roughly), and I paid the other $200 upfront.

    So it's a $700 (Aus) phone.
  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    edited March 2004
    Okay I'm mad. That phone takes better pictures than my digital camera! :O
  • TequilaTequila Join Date: 2003-08-13 Member: 19660Members
    Lovely, but at the end of the day it's just a phone. I'll keep mine simple and cheap and use it for its primary purpose. and spend the money I save elsewhere.
  • AllUrHiveRblong2usAllUrHiveRblong2us By Your Powers Combined... Join Date: 2002-12-20 Member: 11244Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Mantrid+Mar 21 2004, 02:11 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mantrid @ Mar 21 2004, 02:11 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Forgive me, I am a mere child...




    Was there ever a time when people actually used phones to, ya' know, talk to people? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Yes, but to talk to people, your phone has to be the size of a shoebox.
  • CyndaneCyndane Join Date: 2003-11-15 Member: 22913Members
    Hmm... I thought Europe had some better phones then that one. I hope Vodafone does eventually switch over to the CDMA so you Europeans can enjoy the full mega-pixel phones and fun broadband wireless internet. Neat looking phone though.
  • DY357LXDY357LX Playing since day 1. Still can&#39;t Comm. England Join Date: 2002-10-27 Member: 1651Members, Constellation
    What image resolution are the pictures you take Inf?
    Can you BlueTooth them to other phones or BlueTooth adaptors?

    I took this with my NOKIA 3650 and the images look pretty good
    for 640*480 pixels.
    <img src='http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.taylor2/images/BlueTooth/Pc%20area.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
    (My pc area, bout 3/4 weeks old)

    I also resize some pics to 640*480 and then send them to my phone
    for use as a background image.
  • QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    DAMN thats nice. POP on a phone? Sweet. And the pics are pretty high-res...
  • MulletMullet Join Date: 2003-04-28 Member: 15910Members, Constellation
    If I was to ever buy a phone, I'd buy it for calling people...not for taking pictures <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • MedHeadMedHead Join Date: 2002-12-19 Member: 11115Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-Infinitum+Mar 21 2004, 05:46 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Infinitum @ Mar 21 2004, 05:46 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <a href='http://www.mobileburn.com/review.jsp?Page=14&Id=464' target='_blank'>Sample pictures taken with the GX20</a>

    Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

    Well I had $500 I choose to repay over a 24 month period ($21 bucks a month roughly), and I paid the other $200 upfront.

    So it's a $700 (Aus) phone. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Wow. Those pictures are not acceptable.

    I could get a better and higher quality assortment of products than what you have in your hand now, for the same price... probably less. Obviously my feelings toward "combo" electronics are still well grounded.

    You chose... poorly.
  • pielemuispielemuis Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 72Members, NS1 Playtester
    Inf, I'll be waiting for you to call me.
  • GwahirGwahir Join Date: 2002-04-24 Member: 513Members, Constellation
    Meh, I'm still waiting for blue tooth to be used as it was meant to be. Actually combining the individual products for crossover use. You know, have a digital camera that can talk to your phone so you can send pictures that way, probably cheaper.
  • DubersDubers Pet Shop Boy Edinburgh, UK Join Date: 2002-07-25 Member: 998Members
    I ask you this - What is a phone for?
  • CForresterCForrester P0rk(h0p Join Date: 2002-10-05 Member: 1439Members, Constellation
    Phones are for text-messaging 12-year old Japanese girls who can type 80 WPM on a phone keypad.
  • AllUrHiveRblong2usAllUrHiveRblong2us By Your Powers Combined... Join Date: 2002-12-20 Member: 11244Members
    edited March 2004
    Phones are for use as a phallic extension of course, like a Porsche or a massive Warez collection.
  • ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet&#33; Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-CForrester+Mar 21 2004, 11:51 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (CForrester @ Mar 21 2004, 11:51 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Phones are for text-messaging 12-year old Japanese girls who can type 80 WPM on a phone keypad. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    in japan, pimps use camera phones to take pictures of potential clients. the girls check out the client to see if they like his face before they actually hook up with him.
  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    $500 for a phone


    bite me.


    with $500 I can build a computer (though I don't need a 3rd comp atm so I could upgrade one of my comps)
  • BigMadSteveBigMadSteve Join Date: 2003-02-12 Member: 13472Members
    I had a really shoddy phone for about 4 years. Eventually it just broke so I bought myself a Motorola V525. Some of the pictures I get from my friends are....interesting.

    <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    <!--QuoteBegin-Zig+Mar 21 2004, 02:08 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Zig @ Mar 21 2004, 02:08 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-CForrester+Mar 21 2004, 11:51 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (CForrester @ Mar 21 2004, 11:51 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Phones are for text-messaging 12-year old Japanese girls who can type 80 WPM on a phone keypad. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    in japan, pimps use camera phones to take pictures of potential clients. the girls check out the client to see if they like his face before they actually hook up with him. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I just had an image pop into my head of some Japanese guy wearing a purple fedora hat and a fur coat holding a silver mobile phone. hah.
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