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The Japanese make Android phones into flips, and you can buy them for more than 100 yuan

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The Japanese make Android phones into flips, and you can buy them for more than 100 yuan

Almost a year ago, we wrote several articles about the state of the mobile phone market around the world, and we took a look at the sales of mobile phone brands in various regions.

The Japanese make Android phones into flips, and you can buy them for more than 100 yuan

Unexpectedly, the difference between mobile phone preferences and sales in various places is really quite large... For example, the United States almost exclusively uses Apple Samsung, and in Europe, Chinese brands are blooming everywhere.

The European market is in turmoil

The Japanese make Android phones into flips, and you can buy them for more than 100 yuan

But Japan is like a mudslide in the mobile phone industry, not only the iPhone has a very high market share, but also the Japanese are still using flip phones...

It's not Samsung's high-end flip phone of the W series, nor is it the current folding screen mobile phone, it is the most unpretentious original flip phone with buttons...

Sharp 807SH

The Japanese make Android phones into flips, and you can buy them for more than 100 yuan

And these mobile phones can not only be bought in second-hand stores, in fact, Japanese local manufacturers have been producing new flip phones until recent years.

These flip phones are not only new, but also add some new features with the times...

For example, this Sharp SH-02K mobile phone found by Tony looks like an old antique clamshell machine, but it is actually a mobile phone that was only released in 2017...

The Japanese make Android phones into flips, and you can buy them for more than 100 yuan

What is the concept of 2017? The iPhone 8 was a product of the same year as it.

The Japanese make Android phones into flips, and you can buy them for more than 100 yuan

At first, Tony didn't think too much, thinking that maybe it was just that the Japanese still had demand for clamshell machines, so he began to fry cold rice and continue to produce this mobile phone.

However, Sharp and a bunch of manufacturers seem to be playing with you for real, and they are really starting to fill the technology tree on the basis of the clamshell...

For example, this SH-02K can not only access the Internet, but even support LTE networks and VolTE HD voice calls.

The Japanese make Android phones into flips, and you can buy them for more than 100 yuan

It uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 210 quad-core chip, with a frequency of "high" up to 1.1GHz, and has 1GB of memory and 8GB of storage.

It doesn't matter if you think the capacity is small, because it supports up to 256G memory cards... What's even more outrageous is that, to a certain extent, it is actually a smartphone, because it uses Android.

The Japanese make Android phones into flips, and you can buy them for more than 100 yuan

That is to say, 4G + Android, in theory, you can do many things that were not possible with flip phones before.

But this is not the most outrageous, you don't see that this phone has rows of buttons, in fact...

This thing can be used as a trackpad to control the mouse...

Sharp SH-06G

The Japanese make Android phones into flips, and you can buy them for more than 100 yuan

Really, if you tell me that a manufacturer has integrated a touch panel into the button area of a flip phone, then I probably think that there is something wrong with this person. But Sharp didn't just do it, but Nima also supported multi-touch.

Sharp SH-02K

The Japanese make Android phones into flips, and you can buy them for more than 100 yuan

It sounds outrageous, but it seems normal to happen in Japan.

By the way, this thing even supports dustproof and waterproof and NFC, and the configuration is higher than some Android phones...

The Japanese make Android phones into flips, and you can buy them for more than 100 yuan

How to say, in addition to its form of a clamshell machine, the remaining various functions are already infinitely close to the touch screen mobile phone.

But the stubborn Japanese do not do touch screens, and must make these functions into the clamshell machine, which belongs to the model of crooked technology to the extreme.

This feeling of extreme partiality is like the world view of the game "Atomic Heart", the field of intelligent robots in the former Soviet Union is unprecedentedly developed, but all other aspects are still stuck at the level of the 50s.

The Japanese make Android phones into flips, and you can buy them for more than 100 yuan

But these clamshells are not overhead products in the game, but real products.

For example, the Sharp SH-02K and SH-06G shown earlier are priced at 13,800 and 19,800 yen on Amazon in Japan, respectively, one selling for more than 700 pieces and one for almost a thousand.

The Japanese make Android phones into flips, and you can buy them for more than 100 yuan

Usually here, things are actually pretty much the same, the Japanese continue to stubbornly use clamshell machines, the price is not high, and we continue to be heavily involved in the smartphone market, consumers are comparing prices while watching the show.

However, there are such a few groups of people in China, who do the opposite and choose to buy Japanese clamshell machines through various methods...

For example, a B station UP owner spent more than 140 yuan to buy the Sharp SH-02K on the idle fish...

The Japanese make Android phones into flips, and you can buy them for more than 100 yuan

Yes, you read that right, not only can you buy this abstract clamshell machine in China, but the price is even several times cheaper than in Japan.

To be honest, from the perspective of this price and its corresponding features, such as 4G and NFC, Tony even thinks it's worth it...

Even if domestic smartphones are rolled up like this, on the Internet, there will still be a group of people in the world who will pick e-waste - garbage guys, to buy such mobile phones.

Then Tony followed the vine and found the shop where the old brother bought his mobile phone, and found that there were a lot of cyber antiques in this store, and there was even a flip machine for sale.

The Japanese make Android phones into flips, and you can buy them for more than 100 yuan

The Sharp 807SH on sale not only supports triple networks, adopts a colorful body, and even has an external ink screen.

The Japanese make Android phones into flips, and you can buy them for more than 100 yuan

The slightly scratched model costs only 268 yuan, which is much cheaper than the 1,000 pieces in Japan...

Not only can you get an original Japanese-style flip phone at a super low price, but it will not be just a pure decoration. Of course, not only the above one, in fact, everyone has their own reasons for buying a Japanese-style flip machine.

For example, the thousand-dollar flip machine Sharp 9020C, which was once unaffordable, can now be bought for only a few hundred dollars.

The Japanese make Android phones into flips, and you can buy them for more than 100 yuan

The reason why these people buy this clamshell machine is simple, that is, they want to fulfill their childhood dreams.

The Japanese make Android phones into flips, and you can buy them for more than 100 yuan

So in fact, looking at it this way, it is a garbage guy and a dream of fulfilling his childhood, and this flip machine is still not on the table in China.

So why should I spend hundreds of dollars to buy this thing, is it bad for me to eat Haidilao? Tony thought about it for a while, in fact, it is not difficult to understand, to put it bluntly, this is still a kind of love for the flip machine, or feelings.

A few hundred pieces are not expensive, you can satisfy your clamshell machine feelings through some channels, and the garbage guys will naturally find one or two.

You don't have to worry about never being able to buy a clamshell machine again, because of the extreme stubbornness of the Japanese next door, they are still producing new clamshell machines, but quietly helped us.

The Japanese make Android phones into flips, and you can buy them for more than 100 yuan

But the reason for this is that there is also a chance to let this kind of mobile phone cross the ocean and come to the mysterious eastern country thousands of miles away, and it has been picked up by idle fish, cool an and Xiaohongshu users.

As for why it's so cheap, we don't know, we don't dare to ask, if you like it, buy it and it's over. It is said that feelings are priceless, but sometimes, it is worth more than a hundred pieces.

However, even the Japanese themselves may not have imagined that Japan's stubborn clamshell machine culture to the extreme has become a group of buyers in China...

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