I have a new phone, beaten to it by a matter of minutes by a 'friend' (damn you Butler!), I present to you the Sharp GX-30. So far so good, it's basically a beefed up version of my original camera phone, so I knew roughly what I was getting into - a quick run down on the good and bad points, starting with the bad points:



Bad Points

• The Bluetooth is a bit shit - it only seems to have headset and hands-free support support



• The Calendar hasn't changed since the GX-10! So no alerts.



• It doesn't like downloading midi files off my website. grrr!



• No wavs or mp3s as ringtones



• OK, that's a bit negative, so here's the more positive points...

Baaaaad Ass Points

• Amazing 240x320 display



• 1MB Camera! Which can also do video clips (mwah mwah mwaaah!)



• Disco Lights! No, seriously it has a seven colour light on the front which can be set to 'disco'



• 256KB Java, allegedly. This was a feature of the Japanese version of this phone which in theory means fancy 3D graphics like this - that is if these sort of games ever get released over here
. In fact the Java perforance is noticeably improved compared to either of my old java enabled phones, I've tested it using the Amark demo on Midlet.org


• Menus and Text messaging are much quicker than the T610

Basically it's a fun phone, it's for taking out down the pub and capturing those 'special' alcohol fueled moments. If you're after a business orientated phone forget it, in fact what are you doing reading this? Get off m'oi laaand! We don't want yours sort 'round here!