I have Panasonic GD87 (Vodafone contract too) and have never used the e-mail process. But I can get the photos from camera/phone to computer either through wire or Bluetooth.
The process is unpublished and Vodafone won't tell you about it because they prefer you to spend your beer tokens using e-mail.
Get a Konnect (or similar) "Phone Manager" kit from a mobile phone shop that allows you to connect 'phone to PC and upload/download 'phone books and text messages. Make sure they don't quietly sell you one with a serial connector on it unless that's what you want. Get the USB version.
When you got it working (after a struggle - the instructions are not very user friendly) you probably won't be able to see the photos stored on the phone (I'm assuming that the Sharp is similar to the Panasonic) because you can only access the "received" folder of the phone.
But, using the phone's data management commands you can copy the photos in the "pictures" storage folder of the phone (they're probably JPGs) to the "received" folder and then download them to PC.
Then you'll be able to see just how bad the pictures are that these phone/cameras take.
