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Review: Sharp FX

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Browser

The FX has a version of the Polaris browser on board. You want to know how long web pages take (on average) to load? Here was a typical experience. I would open the browser. The display would go to sleep before the AT&T home page opened. I'd wake the display back up and have to unlock the phone. The FX would still be loading the home page. The home page would suddenly pop up all at once. Then I'd choose to enter a URL and visit a web site. While waiting for that new site to load, the display would go to sleep, forcing me to wake the phone back up and unlock it. The punchline? I have the display set to sleep after 2 minutes.

The end result is a miserable, awful, horrible browsing experience. The FX can't decide if it wants to show WAP sites, mobile sites, or HTML sites, as all three make appearances from time to time. Anything more than WAP, however, just flat-out kills the FX.

Truly one of the worst browsing experiences I can recall on a mobile phone since the EDGE and 1X days.

Customize

The FX offers only modest customization at best. Sure, you can set your own wallpapers, ringtones, alerts, caller ID, etc. Themes are limited to "white" or "black." The menu style can't be rearranged, the home screen and main menu are pretty much stuck the way they are. The AT&T bloatware is unremovable, and 81MB of on-board memory doesn't leave users with a lot of space.

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Sharp FX

3" display 240 x 400 pixels
MSM6290 processor
1,240 mAh battery
Memory Card Slot, Hardware Text Keyboard, Headphone Jack (3.5mm)

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