14 DAY TRIAL // Not long ago, Sanyo has announced the release of its SCP-8400, a dual band CDMA 800/1900 device, with support for data transfer technologies like the CDMA 1xRTT and the CDMA 1xEV-DO.
Unlike its predecessors released by Sanyo, the SCP-8400 has a music player, and Bluetooth technology, with profiles for headset (HSP), handsfree (HFP), dial-up networking (DUN), file transfer protocol (FTP) and object push (OPP).
In this category of never seen before features on Sanyo phones, are also included a music player, with MP3/AAC/AAC+ file formats support, a microSD expansion memory card slot, speakerphone, call screening, voice commands and the Sprint Power Vision service that allows users to access internet e-mail, browse the web faster, and, as a team with the Sprint PCS Connection Manager, to use the phone as a mobile modem for the laptop, with the help of the included USB cable.
The handset also features a 1.3 megapixel camera, with LED flash, self-timer, brightness adjustment, a macro setting for up-close pictures, digital zoom and PictBridge capability (for the users that want to print their photos without using a PC). It also has 64 MB of memory included, and two displays: a 2 inch QVGA 240x320 pixels TFT LCD internal display, with 65k colors, and a 1 inch 128x160 pixels TFT LCD external display.
Overall, the phone is a big step ahead for Sanyo, evolving from a series of phones with almost no multimedia features, and succeeding to be a phone ready to compete with handsets from companies with much more experience in the multimedia branch of the mobile market.
The SCP-8400 clamshell will have three colors: midnight black, powder white and electric blue, and will probably be launched on Sprint carrier very soon, at a price not yet disclosed.