1 Gigabyte of Sanyo M1 Going to Sprint

Yes, it is true! Sanyo has designed for all you Sprint users out there a new Power Vision clamshell, the Sanyo M1, with an astonishing 1 gigabyte of on-board storage. I guess they're trying to make their customers move in front of the Sprint retailing stores, until the release of the M1.

And, did I mention that the future Sprint cell phone will have a design which will make it a part of your dreams for quite a long time from the moment you'll get to see it? Apart from its stylish design, bellow the display, the M1 seems to have some kind of an iPod scroll-wheel of some sort, or some music playback collection of control buttons. Even if Sanyo hasn't been known for releasing mobile phones that enchant the eyes of the users, this time, they did a good job with the M1, at least from what it can be seen from such a small picture.

The handset has all the stuff a multimedia maniac would want from a mobile phone, an impressive 262k colors 240x320 QVGA internal display and an external 262k colors 128x96 screen, a 2 megapixel camera, microSD expansion memory card slot, Bluetooth with A2DP system, GPS, MP3 player, Readylink and EV-DO.

As in many cell phones that come in with style and huge packs of features, the M1 just couldn't be perfect. It has a major drawback in its competition with other multimedia phones: its huge thickness (these days) of 27 to 29 millimeters.

Official information about the phone's release or price hasn't been released by neither Sanyo nor Sprint, but rumors say the device will be launched some time around November 2006.