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"...Inside the phone is a standard Sanyo display. It measures a roomy 2 inches diagonally (240x320 pixels) and supports 65,000 colors. Though that's not as high a resolution as we'd like to see on multimedia phone (we prefer 262,000 colors), it's a decent display for viewing photos and scrolling through the menus. And speaking of which, the SCP-8400 is one of the first handsets from Sprint to feature the carrier's Themes interface, which allows you to customize the appearance of the main menu, standby display, and a list of shortcut options. It's a cool feature that fits nicely with the phone's broad personalization options. The display has an adjustable backlighting time and font size..."

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"...The device is reasonably good looking, and it is both thin and light. If you are a Sprint customer, this is the closest thing to a Motorola RAZR V3 that you are likely to ever find. It may not be very original, but it scores well on usability and is overall a pleasure to use. Its QVGA display is an added bonus. It scores a solid "Recommended" rating.

Another Sprint handset to consider would be the A900, also known as the Blade. It has a similar form factor but includes 3G support and stereo music playback....

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"Sprint's new Sanyo Katana may look exactly like a plastic RAZR, but it's no disposable. It's a reasonable midrange phone designed to help Sprint customers scratch their itch for the nation's most popular form factor.

The RAZR phenomenon has dominated the cell-phone world for a year now, but Sprint has been left out. Instead, it turned to Sanyo to develop a clone. The Katana looks like a slightly longer, squarer RAZR, complete with an antenna bulge at the bottom. Just like on the RAZR, there's a VGA camera above a small color screen on the front, volume buttons on the left side of the flip, and a nonstandard headphone jack that works with an adapter. Like the RAZR, it also comes in colors: black, blue, and pink.

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"Sanyo's SCP-3100 for Sprint (known officially as the Sprint PCS Vision Phone SCP-3100 by Sanyo) carries on the company's reputation for spectacular voice quality. Unfortunately, its mediocre feature set and truly hideous case design require me to recommend other phones in Sprint's midrange.

There's no polite way to say it: This is a very, very ugly phone. The black-and-white, text-only external screen lights up a garish orange color; the keypad lights, meanwhile, are a clashing green. The 128-by-160 main color screen seems a bit washed out. The front of the phone looks as if it has gills, and the plastic back has a definite Fisher-Price feel to it. Sanyo doesn't make beautiful phones, but this one takes the cake. Comparing it to LG's elegant PM-225 or Motorola's C290 makes the deficiency of its design even more striking.....

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"This is a premium phone, no doubt about that. The Sanyo SCP-9000 costs NZ$699 on an open term contract, and on Telecom’s Mytime 12 to 24 month plans; those who sign up for the 36-month Anytime Go 400 or 800 at NZ$213.75 or NZ$337.50 per month respectively get phone thrown in for free, with discounts available on the lower-cost Anytime plans.

What do you get for that money then? The big draw-card is access to Telecom’s T3G service, which is CDMA 1xRTT with an EV-DO Rev 0 data overlay. This means fast Internet connectivity: Telecom says 300-500kbit/s downloads are typical, but in good conditions, I’ve seen the EV-DO network hit 900kbit/s down and 120kbit/s up, with latency times of 90-110ms. That’s not too shabby for a mobile network solution....

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"The good: The Sanyo MM-7500 has quality performance; support for Sprint's 3G EV-DO network; a 1.3-megapixel camera with a flash; a speakerphone; and a rugged design.

The bad: The Sanyo MM-7500 suffers from a poor media-player design, a lack of Bluetooth, and an expandable memory card slot; plus, there are no external multimedia controls.

The bottom line: The Sanyo MM-7500 eclipses the competing Sanyo MM-9000 in look and feel, but when you cut to the chase, it does not deliver the features necessary for a complete multimedia experience in Sprint's newest EV-DO network offering....

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The Sprint Power Vision MM-7500 by Sanyo ($329.99; $279.99 and up with contract), a reliable phone for voice calling and Sprint's multimedia services, is sure to attract fans with its "rugged" design and built-in GPS capability. But overall, Sprint has better offerings at the same price.

At 3.4 by 1.9 by 1.1 inches and 4 ounces, the black flip phone is chunky but not particularly heavy. It has a removable colored panel than can add a blue, red, or silver accent. The outside has a little 96-by-64 color screen, a big single speaker, and a megapixel camera with a macro switch. Open the flip, and you'll find a bright, sharp, 176-by-220 screen and a keyboard of small, clearly labeled rectangular buttons.

"Rugged" here doesn't mean this phone is tough like a Nextel i355. What the MM-7500 has are rubber bumpers to help it survive drops without scuffing. (Our review unit lived through several drops from about four feet onto both wooden and hard office floors.)

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Compact and stylish, the consumer-oriented clamshell 5600 T3G phone turns heads and comes with most of the standard must-haves but what most justifies the investment (up to $599 retail) is the included 1GB memory card -- which might sound a bit strange, since memory is so cheap...

Review courtesy of National Business Review (click for full review)

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