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4.5 stars
"This is a really good phone"
Pros: Good sound quality, good features and user friendly menus.
Cons: So so camera and bad green backlighting on keypad.
Summary: The Sanyo MM 8300 is an awesome phone. I was in a tough spot when buying this phone because I was on the road and my Sanyo 8200 just died a horrible death.
The 8200 was the absolute worst cell phone I've ever had!!! I was very reluctant to get another Sanyo product. The salesman at the Sprint store really talked this phone up( as salesman do for...well...everything they're trying to sell...) but I eventually bought it after looking through the phone and checking it out.
I was happy that I got it. WORLDS better then an 8200!
The big thing for me is sound quality. I'm an audio engineer, so I'm much happier when things sound good. The sound of the calls on this phone are pretty good. All the distortion from the 8200 is gone. The speakerphone works well too. Callers on the other end say that the sound quality of the microphone is good too.
The fact that Sanyo has the sense to still put an analog roaming feature in their phones is a nice thing. I'm on the road a LOT! Sprint has a pretty good digital roaming network, but for those times when you are on a rural highway in Montana or Wyoming or even I 70 going through some parts of Colorado, and the only thing you can get is an analog signal, you'll be happy when you have to make a call that just can't wait. The Treo 650 (as well as a few of sprint's really popular phones)doesn't even have an anlog option.
The menus in the 8300 are much better. The function that you wanted at the top of a particular menu in the 8200 but were somwhere else, are now right at the top of the menus in this phone.
This phone has the normal VGA camera that does still pics as well as video. As far as cell phones go, the camera does the job. Of course you are not going to get great pics but it works for taking pics with your friends and stuff like that. The camcorder function is cool. Not great video quality but it gets the job done.
The drawbacks of this phone are minimal. Very minimal. I really don't like the green backlighting on the keypad. They need to get a bright blue or white behind those keys. Battery life could be better.
All in all, the Sanyo MM 8300 is a really good phone.
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Also coming from the 8100 and 8200, the thing I think Sanyo REALLY screwed up on this phone is the camera and back buttons are no longer back lite. ARGH. I hate this. What mechanical designer thought THAT was a better idea?
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