Gadgetory

hey what is up guys I'm Kim PhD here and this is new this is the sharp aquos crystal the most interesting phone in the world right now no but seriously this is one of the most intriguing phones I've seen in a long time and for one huge reason or I guess one tiny reason dad bezel all the way around this phone except for the bottom you have a minimal bezel that basically melts over the side so really looks like there's no bezel at all so on the fourth side on the bottom it has this huge chin and I call this the Moto 360 approach basically this design is the reason we're looking at this phone at all it's the reason it's called so many eye is a lot of people are now interested in it this might be a stretch but it kind of reminds me of the Zune HD from way back in the day anyone know well it has the prominent chin on the bottom and the smaller side bezels that remind me of that but looking at other phones on the market there really isn't anything else like this so I wanted to show it to you guys get eyes on this thing share it around because I like what manufacturers take risks like this so props to sharp for thinking outside the box so we're looking at a five inch 720p edge to edge display and at all those edges is the piece of glass on the front end of the phone that champers straight down to the metal sides in a way that's pretty smooth and seamless giving it a pretty dope look obviously the chin isn't the prettiest thing in the world but you got to put the display driver somewhere and overall it doesn't really look terrible as a whole package also on the bottom you also have your front-facing selfie camera which actually asks you to hold the phone upside down to take selfies that aren't at a weird angle and the white LED notification light is down at the bottom as well now one of the sacrifices they made for that bezel is display is not having an earpiece on the top and although it is a bit of sacrifice they've also kind of made it into a feature instead of having an earpiece they still have a back facing speaker but instead of having an earpiece on the top for calls the entire glass front panel here vibrates so when you make a call and you put your ear up to anywhere on the display you'll hear whoever you're calling it's a similar technology to what you have in that bone conduction speaker in Google glass that vibrates against your temple anywhere you put this phone up against your head you can hear it because it's vibrating the whole screen and it's actually decent quality too so they kind of turned a sacrifice into a bit of a feature so using this display holding it and getting used to it was pretty quick to get used to and soon you start to see every other phones big bezels start to look even bigger but you get a few nice aesthetic advantages with this edge to edge screen so for one the cameras viewfinder looks really cool it's a 5-inch fullscreen view finder and well it's not even a good camera at all you get a pretty good idea of what it's like to really take advantage to edge of a full screen from corner to corner so I just love that look pretty neat the camera is definitely one of the better-looking apps that you can open on this phone another thing was videos and gaming so videos of course playback full screen and they create this immersive experience even though it's a 5-inch display it's not the biggest in the world but you can imagine being able to focus really well now on the medium or instead of the device you're watching it on and of course gaming so games full screen look really great too but it's not all pros obviously when the display goes edge to edge like this you do have a couple of cons a couple sacrifices you still need to hold it somewhere and yeah the device is pretty thick on the sides so you can hold it on the sides but even so I found myself kind of obstructing the view of the screen by accident sometimes just by holding it kind of wrong and also durability is going to suffer it's basically impossible to make a case for this phone that doesn't cover up part of the screen if you think about it so you're gonna be carrying a naked and if you drop it on any of the sides other than the bottom you're basically making impact with the screen since there's no bezel to shield it so yeah you're gonna have to be extra careful handling this guy to not drop it and to not accidentally press stuff and like I said it's actually a five inch display but it feels way way smaller than any other five inch phone I've ever held in fact the body of it is smaller than the iPhone 6 body and the iPhone 6 is a smaller 4.7 inch display so I mean the socco's crystal is seriously compacted around it's 5 inch display I didn't even realize it was a 5 inch display until I looked it up I would have thought it's more like 4.5 and it is a 720p display so it comes in at just under 300 pixels per inch and it's not exactly super sharp or Retina display or anything but this isn't a high-end phone this is a low to mid-range prepaid phone that costs a hundred and fifty bucks on Amazon I'll leave a link right below that like button if you want to check it out you can get this phone prepaid with Booster sprint but yeah basically it's 150 bucks so really in terms of unique features once you get past the display in the design basically ends there it's running a lower end Qualcomm chip and has what a gig and a half of RAM a gigabytes of on-board storage and it's running a very near stock build of Android 4.4 with a few features that sharp has built in so one is it has Harman Kardon audio which is supposedly going to add clarity to your audio but I'd put that in the same category as Beats Audio I wouldn't really worry about that and it also has some fancy fullscreen animations that can turn on when your phone is charging or when your alarm clock is going off basically this is sharp adding some features in the settings saying hey look at me look how freakin cool this looks to not have a bezel please notice how good this looks and honestly it does look pretty cool but yeah performance it's okay not spectacular it does stutter once in a while especially when web browsing or gaming but nothing too extreme battery life was a bit better than I expected actually thanks to the 720p display so thumbs up there and really that's the whole deal with this device it's not a flagship like I said the cortex a7 chip a gigs a storage it has a micro SD card slot in the back but you can't remove or swap the battery this whole phone is more of trying new things with a new design that no one has ever really pushed before and I am so down for more stuff like this I like when companies push the boundaries of design and what phones should look like or feel like in the hand and even if this phone won't make a lot of money for sharp which it probably won't I'm glad they took that risk I'm glad they're taking risks and that's why I'm sharing this I want people to see this I want new eyeballs on this stuff and hopefully other manufacturers try some more outlandish or more interesting stuff to this particular isn't the phone for me but I am glad it exists