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The omission of a secondary lens for ultra-wide or zoom photography is very unusual for a flagship, but I think by now we know Sharp phones are unconventional products.

The Sharp Aquos R7 has one camera on each side of the phone: the aforementioned 1-inch main camera, and a 12MP front-facing selfie camera. Inside the phone is a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (not the newer 8 Plus), and it comes with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage (there are no other memory configurations).

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Sharp’s tendency to zig where others zag is also apparent at the top, where the SIM tray is located, plus a headphone jack. It’s a comfortable phone to hold, with the 208g weight evenly distributed. The sides of the phone are wide and flat, but unlike a recent iPhone, the corners aren’t sharp thanks to chamfered edges. The scanning area is larger, allowing for the option of two-finger authentication, and it also scans a beat faster than other scanners.Ī single piece of aluminum casing makes up the phone’s sides and back, and it’s a nice throwback to the smartphones of 2015 or so, before virtually every high-end phone went with a glass body.

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In fact, Sharp’s panel doesn’t seem to get as bright to my eyes as the Galaxy S22 Ultra’s even though Sharp advertises a 2,000 nits “peak max brightness.” There’s also a bit of thin bezel that’s thicker than other 2022 Android flagships.īut the screen is entirely flat, which a lot of readers may like, and underneath it is Qualcomm’s 3D Sonic Max scanner, which is quite a bit of an upgrade over traditional optical in-display scanners or even just a typical Qualcomm ultra-sonic scanner (like the one used in the Galaxy S22 series). The screen definitely looks great, and animations are very fast and smooth, but I’d be lying if I said I noticed any area of superiority over a “typical” 120Hz OLED panel in a top Android device like the Galaxy S22 Ultra or OnePlus 10 Pro. Yup - twice that of any modern Android flagship. The 6.67-inch, 2,730 x 1,260 OLED panel uses Sharp’s IGZO (Indium, gallium, zinc, oxide) technology, which means the screen is layered with ultra thin-film transistors that offer lower power leakage. The rest of the phone is an odd mix of familiar and new. The cameras being so special deserves its own section, which we’ll get to in a bit. The fact that Sharp is also using this same camera should be more newsworthy, but as my colleague Timi Cantisano wrote last month, Sharp has a history of letting other brands take the shine for hardware innovations. Sharp’s camera, in fact, uses the exact same Sony IMX989 sensor - which Xiaomi said it co-developed with Sony, splitting the $15 million R&D bill. The Sharp Aquos R7 is an odd mix of familiar and new Does this sound familiar? These are the same selling points of the Xiaomi 12S Ultra camera, which has been garnering praises in the tech media space, including yours truly. The biggest selling point of the Sharp Aquos R7, in my opinion, is its main camera: a 1-inch Sony sensor with Leica optics. Neither Sharp nor Trinity Electronics had input in this article.

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Qualcomm 3D Sonic Max under-display fingerprint sensorĪndroid 12 with Sharp’s software overlay on topĪbout this review: this review was written after testing a Sharp Aquos R7 sourced from Hong Kong importer Trinity Electronics. Xiaomi Surge G1 battery management chip.12GB LPDDR5 RAM + 256GB UFS 3.1 storage.Variable refresh rate support (1-240Hz).