Sharp Mobiles, a Japanese giant has launched a new smartphone in its home country. The Sharp Android One S3 is a new Android smartphone offering from the company. The smartphone being Android One offers a stock Android experience to its users. The smartphone is currently priced at JPY 32,400 (roughly Rs. 19,000). The smartphone is available in Black, White, Green and Pink colour variants.
Specifications
The Sharp Android One S3 is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 SoC. The Snapdragon 430 is an octa-core chipset coupled with Adreno 505 GPU. The smartphone features a 5-inch IGZO display with a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels. The device packs in 3GB of RAM and 32GB of onboard storage. The storage on the device is expandable up to 256GB using a microSD card. The Sharp Android One S3 runs on Android 8.0 Oreo out of the box. Under the hood, there is a 2,700mAh battery.
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On the optics front, the Sharp Android One S3 sports a 13-megapixel camera at the back. The rear camera comes with a LED flash and autofocus. Up front, there is a 5-megapixel front-facing camera.
In terms of connectivity, the Sharp Android One S3 supports 4G LTE, VoLTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.2 and GPS. The smartphone also comes with a USB Type-C port for charging and data syncing. The smartphone also comes with IP68 rating making it dust and water resistant. Notably, there is no fingerprint scanner on the smartphone.
However, there is no information on when the smartphone will make its way to other markets.
