Sharp's SH6010C flip phone surfaces in Japan
By Darren Murph 
posted Feb 15th 2009 11:06AM
posted Feb 15th 2009 11:06AM
Due to the oftentimes severe limitations of machine translation, we're not exactly too sure what's going on with Sharp's admittedly stylish (albeit simple) SH6010C. For what's it worth, we did see this here handset sneak by the FCC in late December, and we certainly wouldn't be surprised to see it float on over soon after hitting the streets of Japan. And, unless we're being fooled, that's exactly what has happened. Check the read link for a few more looks, but you better grab that Chinese dictionary if you're looking for anything not penned in the universal language.
[Via Engadget Chinese]
this phone is a mainland chinese edition. if you dont know one chinese character can you at least see the keypad
Yep- come on, Engadget, it's plainly made for China. It's been floating around Japan ages ago as the 821SH; it's only now taking to the streets of CHINA as the SH6010C.
For future reference- xxxSH/SH-xxA/SHxxx is a made-for-Japan model (Softbank/DoCoMo/KDDI in that order) while SHxxxxC is made-for-China (the reason this is such a big deal is that Sharp has decided in its infinite wisdom to cut costs by using the MTK chipset more commonly used by phones featured in the KIRF section of this website. So in essence, it's Sharp in name only.
And you missed its successor the SH6018C, based on the 823SH. That's new, this isn't.
In short- this is probably going to be Sharp's Razr. Prices started dropping almost as soon as it came out, and it runs significantly differently from every other Sharp phone in existence (due to the MTK chipset- I'm guessing Sharp couldn't use the chipset they used in the 821SH because that was 3G-only, and China doesn't have 3G (won't until May).
and we should care because...
@FoneFreakUSA- because for all its faults it still kicks the pants off anything offered in the USA at that price point.