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"Any phone without bluetooth or long battery life is dead in the water." on by Alldreds
Pros: Its a Sanyo and they appear to make good phones.
Cons: No bluetooth
Summary: I wouldn't doubt that this is a pretty good phone but I'm still waiting for Sanyo to introduce themselves to bluetooth, and I'm patiently waiting for my carrier (Sprint) to offer more choices with bluetooth. At the prices they're asking for most phones these days any phone without bluetooth and long battery life is dead in the water!
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"Best Sanyo Yet!" on by nancito
Pros: signal strength, screen clarity, speed of pcs vision, loud ringtones, nice extras
Cons: no bluetooth, annoying looping in pcs vision, having to wait for dual desktop charger release
Summary: This is my fourth Sanyo phone and I think it is the best one yet. The signal strength gets better in each new phone I get.
The high resolution screen is a thing of beauty that lets you fit more words on-screen as well as more detailed and vivid pictures. Vision definitely loads much more quickly than my VM4500 did, but I am having problems with Hotmail access. I keep getting a stupid message about "this page will reload automatically or hit next" - I HATE THAT. It is also nice that the power plug is the same as the VM4500 and SCP-5300 so my car charger works with it already. I would really appreciate it if Sprint would hurry up and release the dual desktop charger, so I could purchase it and two extended batteries. Sanyo Corp. said that they were no longer producing the chargers, it was now done directly through Sprint. Although CNet said the battery life was weak on this phone, you have to consider that standard battery life on any CDMA phone (Sprint or Verizon) is poor, especially when compared to GSM (Cingular/ATT, T-Mobile). In all fairness, the majority (if not all) Sprint phone standard batteries are going to be pathetic, it is about the same as expecting great sound from the crummy earbuds that you get with your mp3 player. Some nice touches are the ability to have video ringtones, use the phone as an mp3 player (thanks to its memory slot), compress and watch full length movies and have AAC ringtones that sound great. One sad loss on the phone - the lack of the famous and wonderful Sanyo CLICK!
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"Does all the important things with style." on by Prokanda
Pros: screen, mp3, speaker, voice recognition, memory card ability.. basically everything on this phone, with the exception of it's size.
Cons: can't change internal or external (much needed) brightness. confusing external resolution settings
Summary: I previously had the Toshiba vm4050.. I was very impressed with it. However I broke it and had nothing but problems with the refurbished replacements. I was given (!!!) this phone that I had been drooling over and as I know now, for a good reason. I love this phone. It does everything it is supposed to do, everything it has been advertised to do.. and it does it all extremely well. Size is a slighty issue, but nothing major for the features this phone boasts. Cnet judged this one wrong. They obviously didn't spend more than 2 minutes with this handset.
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"Better than anything else Sprint has to offer." on by rockford
Pros: Great: reception, camera, media player, web speed, whole phonebook speech recognition.
Cons: Slightly big overall size. Silver plastic will scuff easily.
Summary: I have been with Sprint for 5 years. In that time I had not had any real problems. In the last 3 months I have had 6 phones. First I had a Samsung MM-A700. The phonebook had a memory error and I lost 255 contacts. Frustrated I took a Sanyo MM-7400 after being told by a Sprint Store salesman that the Sanyo had EVERYTHING the Samsung had plus a speakerphone. Wrong it only has a VGA camera. And not a very good one at that. So I reluctantly took another Samsung MM-A700 after seriously considering a Treo 650. The deal breaker on the Treo was no analog roaming. Which is all their is in northern Michigan where I spend many summer and winter weekends trying to escape metro Detroits otherwise numerous charms. You know things like murders and urban decay on a staggeringly enormous level but thats better left for another forum I guess. So I took the new Samsung and proceeded to re-enter 255 contacts manually over the next several days from a myopically small printed list the Sprint Store apologetically handed me when they could not transfer my phonebook due to the memory problem. But after using the Samsung for about a week thinking that it had a reception issue I found out in my research what the real problem was. The Samsung MM-A700 has an annoying feature they call "noise suppresion technology". What it basically does is eliminate ALL background noise but in doing so it requires a certain threshold of sound before it transmits ANY. So it cuts off the first fraction of what someone says and the very last bit of what they say. It is very much like a walkie talkie effect. Thinking maybe I was to sensitive to it I asked my wife what she thought. Shes pretty easy going. Hell she puts up with me pretty well. But even she said that would drive her crazy. That gave me the cajones to go back to the Sprint Store. They were not anxious to take back another phone. But I called customer service and they made the store take it back. I was on the verge of cancelling my service and going to Verizon but decided to give Sprint another chance. A salesman there told me about a new Sanyo coming out the MM-5600 but it would not be out for another month or two. I took a Sanyo 8200 in the interim and was told I could put that phone on my wifes account when the MM-5600 came in. Great she had had an old Samsung A460 for about 3 years. The 8200 was great except that when in New Orleans for Mardi Gras I was unable to upload the Bourbon St. pictures I had taken the night before. So off to find a Sprint Store. Though it had been 16 days, just beyond the 14 day trial period, they exchanged it for me when I appealled to them explaining that I could not upload my Bourbon St. debauchery pictures I had taken the nighty before. So losing the first nights pictures I, like a trooper, went back and took more. Then, 17 days later, when the 5600 became available through customer cervice I called to order one. But they explained that the 150.00 dollar rebate would not be available unless the 5600 went on my wifes line until we recieved the rebate 8-14 weeks later. Then it could be placed on my line. Exactly the opposite of what I was told when I took the 8200 to begin with. But customer service said me maybe the Sprint Store could do it since that is what they told me. So off to the Sprint Store fully aware that they did not have the 5600 yet but just to make sure they would live up to what I was told. The store manager who knew me well by now said their was no way I could get the rebate if the 5600 went on my line first and not my wifes. I said that is what the salesman told me. The manager wanted to know who told me that. When I called the salesman on it he denied ever telling me that. I said I know what I was told and did he remember recommending the Sanyo MM-7400 saying it had everything the Samsung MM-A700 had? He said "no but that it does have everything" and I said "including a 1 megapixel camera" and he said "yes it does." I said "NO it does not" and I went on to prove him wrong. But even with that the manager did not want to do anything. So another call to customer service had them agreeing to mail me a 5600 along with a return kit for my 8200 instead of putting it on my wifes line. Their choice not mine as the second 8200 I got in New Orleans was perfectly fine. As for a review of the 5600 it seems so far to be everything it has been billed as being. I know with all the hype some people have been a little disappointed. But except for perhaps being a little on the large side I don't easily see a way in which it could be improved. Its really no bigger then the other Sprint or Verizon multi media phones. And I don't know of another phone that can dial ANY contact in your entire phone book without voice training for each contact. Plus you can just say an entire phone number in a string, not digit by digit, like my cars OnStar and it will repeat it back and then dial it. It will also do all of the speach recognition functions while wearing the (included) headset. A nice safety feature so you can keep your eyes better on the road. Sorry for being long winded but I hope also informative. I just felt like I needed to vent and maybe keep someone else from going through all the grief I went through. I wouldn't even wish that on Michael Jackson.
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"Best phone on the market" on by homie g
Pros: mega pixel camera 90 min video walkie talkie television and an amazing screen
Cons: no bluetooth (if u consider that a con)
Summary: this is honestly the best phone on the market the mp3 player is amazing the megapixel camera is awesome this phone has a 90 MIN!! video recording span and depending on the mini sd card u have will mean more pictures more songs and more videos i have a 1 gb mini sd card and wow i have a 90 min video i recorded in the movies of 'be cool'. u show me another phone that can do that. this screen is just amazing its really scary, and this whole bluetoothless phone.... who cares ? theres not one dam phone on the market that has bluetooth that actually works right. to rate it a 6.7 is obsured, its a joke!
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