The successor to the award-winning Sanyo SCP-6000 has arrived, sporting the same slim and stylish design, 16-chord polyphonic ringtones, photo/ringer caller ID and dual-band.
While the U.S. market doesn't se fancy phones as early as the European does - which, again, doesn't see them as early as the Japanese market does - there's a lot to be said for differences. In this case, Sprint PCS' Sanyo SCP-6200, the successor to the Sanyo SCP-6000 which won the award for design and engineering excellence at this year's International Consumer Electronics Show, isn't coming to Europe - and there's a good chance Europeans are slightly envious.
With a design that's very reminiscent of its predecessor, the Sanyo SCP-6000, the SCP-6200 features a magnesium alloy faceplate for added strength, and has very modest physical measurements. It measures a mere .46 inches deep and 5 inches high by 1 1/2 inches wide, weighs in at only 2.65 ounces with its standard 860mAh Lithium Ion battery attached, and offers a talk time using the standard battery of up to 3.5 hours and a standby time of up to 280 hours in digital mode.
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The SCP-6200 supports the Sprint PCS Ringers & More add-on service that allows users to wirelessly download ringtones and screen savers, and an optional Sprint PCS Wireless Web Connection Kit featuring Sanyo Multimedia Master software also lets users personalize the phone, by downloading from the user's PC, images of friends, family and business associates. These images can be used as a "screen saver" or synchronized with phone book entries, providing an onscreen "Photo Caller ID" with select incoming calls. Ringtones in midi file format can also be downloaded and synchronized with phone book entries to personalize incoming calls.
The phone features a monochrome, 4-step gradiation LCD screen with 5-step contrast control to ensure optimal viewability under various lighting conditions, and a customizable (green or orange) backlit display is claimed to perform ideally for low to no light environments.
Also included is the one-touch Sprint PCS Wireless Web Access, aimed at making it simple for users to access the wireless Internet through the Openwave 4.1 browser. Selectable call screening, which functions like a portable answering machine, lets the user decide whether or not to take the call while a supplied or user-recorded announcement greets the caller. One-touch voice memo allows up to eight 18-second memos to be recorded by pressing a key, and voice-activated dialing lets users call up to 30 stored entries by speaking the name into the handset's microphone.
Available at a suggested retail price of $299.99 USD, the Sprint PCS Phone SCP-6200 by Sanyo is available at Sprint Stores nationwide in the U.S. and online at Sprint PCS' website
A hi-res picture of the Sanyo SCP-6200 is available on the following page.
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