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{{short description|Mobile phone model}}
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{{Infobox Mobile phone
| name = SHARP J-SH04
| image = Sharp J-SH04 CP+ 2011.jpg
| imagesize = 250
| manufacturer = [[Sharp Corporation|Sharp]]
| carrier = 
| available = 1 November 2000
| screen = 256-color display
| camera = 110,000-pixels CMOS camera
| input =  
| ringtone = 
| memory =  
| battery = 
| connectivity = 
| size = 122 x 32 x 13 mm
| weight =

| music = 
| predecessor = [[J-SH03]]
| successor = J-SH05

}}

The '''J-SH04''' was a [[mobile phone]] made by [[Sharp Corporation]] and released by [[J-Phone]] (now[[SoftBank Mobile]]). It was only available in [[Japan]], and was released in November 2000.<ref>{{Cite web |title=On This Day: World's First Mobile Phone with a Fully-integrated Camera Launched in Japan |url=https://www.softbank.jp/en/sbnews/entry/20211101_01 |website=SoftBank News}}</ref> It was Japan's second phone with a built-in, back-facing [[camera phone|camera]]. It has a 1/7 inch format, 110,000 pixel [[CMOS]] image sensor and a 256 [[color|color display]], both manufactured by Sharp. The CMOS sensor used only 20% of the power of Sharp’s similarly sized CCD sensor.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sharp's 100-Year History: Chapter 9 |url=https://global.sharp/100th/pdf/chapter09.pdf |website=Sharp}}</ref> The phone weighed 74g, and its dimensions were 127 × 39 × 17&nbsp;mm. It was succeeded by the J-SH05 flip phone, which was released just one month later. It is also considered to be one of the first phones with [[polyphonic]] [[ringtones]].

While the J-SH04 popularized the concept of a camera phone (branded as [[Sha-Mail]]) and was the world's first fully integrated camera and telephone over a cellular mobile network, it had a number of predecessors. In December 1997, Kyocera released the VP-110, which was a PCMCIA videophone adapter with an 80,000-pixel CCD camera that swiveled 210° and attached to the DataScope DS-110 and DS-320 mobile phones.<ref>{{cite web|title=京セラ、データスコープシリーズ新機種、専用テレビ電話アダプタも (1997-10-29)|url=https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/article/971030/kyocera.htm|publisher=PC Watch|accessdate=16 February 2020}}</ref> Kyocera released the first commercial mobile camera-phone in September 1999, the VP-210 Visual Phone which had a front-facing 110,000-pixel CMOS camera enabling both video calling and sending photos over the air.<ref>{{cite web|title=First mobile videophone introduced (1999)|url=http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/ptech/9905/18/japan.phonetv/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130812035002/http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/ptech/9905/18/japan.phonetv/|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 August 2013|publisher=CNN|accessdate=7 July 2014}}</ref> The VP-210 could send its still images as mail attachments or send video at 2 frames per second over a PHS network.<ref>{{cite web|title=京セラ、TV電話つきPHS「VP-210」を7月末に販売 (1999-05-17)|url=https://internet.watch.impress.co.jp/www/article/1999/0517/vp210.htm|publisher=Internet Watch|accessdate=16 February 2020}}</ref> In contrast, the J-SH04's camera on the back of the phone was designed to take photos facing away from the user, which was a more popular way to use digital cameras at the time than video calling and selfie photos. The SH04 was the transformational moment for the camera phone.

Samsung's SCH-V200 phone equipped with a [[VGA]] camera was released in South Korea several months before the J-SH04.<ref>{{cite web|title=Samsung integrate digital camera and phone|url=http://www.dpreview.com/news/2000/7/1/samsungdigiphone|publisher=Digital Photography Review|accessdate=26 August 2012}}</ref> The Samsung SCH-V200's camera was inside the same case as the phone and used the same battery and memory, but it was not integrated with the phone function. It could not convey an image "at a distance," which some regard as part of the definition of a "camera phone."<ref>{{cite web|title=Sharp J-SH04 – first to discover the consumer love affair with the camera phone (2001)|url=http://www.gsmhistory.com/vintage-mobiles/#sharp_sh04_2001|publisher=Stephen Temple|accessdate=6 April 2013}}</ref> Instead, photos taken by the SCH-V200 had to be transferred to a PC in order to be sent over a network.

==References==
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== External links ==
{{commons category|Sharp J-SH04}}
* http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/showcase_top/3913.html {{in lang|ja}}
* https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/isaac-1st-camera-phone-turns-30-ken-parulski
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct4xcm The first photo sent from a phone], BBC Witness History

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