Softpedia
 

NEWS CATEGORIES:



NEWS ARCHIVE >>
SOFTPEDIA REVIEWS >>
MEET THE EDITORS >>
Home > News > Tags > SANYO

Stories about: SANYO


More: next 50 >>

Kyocera Brio Messaging Phone Goes Live at Sprint, Available for Free

Kyocera Brio is the second handset announced by Sprint, after the budget Android smartphone Kyocera Milano made its debut on its airwaves.However, the Brio is a basic feature-phone that offers users standard phone features along with a full portrait QWERTY keyboard.The phone is available for free via Sprint, with a n...

9 September 2011
16:01 GMT

Sanyo Android Robot Takes Over the Household

Coming to show just what a robot can do by achieving just a fraction of the concept's potential, a certain product from Sanyo has been formally launched, powered by an OS usually found in smartphones and tablets.The IT industry has spawned many things over the years, from small and single-purpose gadgets to lar...

15 July 2011
09:47 GMT

Sanyo PLC-WL2503 Interactive Projector Revealed

Beside the ultra-portable, short-throw projector we've talked about yesterday, Sanyo has also revealed another interesting display solution of this type, namely the PLC-WL2503 model, whose main selling point is the fact that it allows users to actually interact with the content being projected.The interactive sy...

19 January 2011
09:20 GMT

Sanyo PLC-XU4000 Ultra-Portable Projector is Low Power, High Brightness

It's rather difficult to imagine just how an ultra-portable projector that delivers a high brightness level can also be eco-friendly, but that's exactly what Sanyo says about their latest such product, the PLC-XU4000 model, which has just been officially presented by the Japanese company.The PLC-XU4000 weig...

18 January 2011
09:47 GMT

New Sanyo PLC-HF15000L Large Venue Projector Touts Huge 15,000 Lumens Brightness

Typically, in order to deliver very good quality images in diverse lighting conditions, large-venue projectors have to provide a very high brightness level, and that's exactly the case with the latest such product from Sanyo, the PLC-HF15000L, that can attain an impressive 15,000 ANSI Lumens that is unmatched by...

15 December 2010
02:38 GMT

World's Most Efficient Solar Panels Start Mass Production by Sanyo

Sanyo's been one of the best-known names in solar-panel research for quite some time now, but it seems that they've managed to take this technology to a whole new level, since they've just revealed the fact that they've started mass producing the world's most efficient solar panels.According ...

6 December 2010
05:31 GMT

Sanyo Caters to the Educational Sector with Four New Projectors

The educational environment has changed a lot from just a few years ago, projectors becoming a normal occurrence in today's classroom and Sanyo is set to take advantage of this trend since the company has just released no less than four models specially developed for such environments.Coming with either WXGA or ...

19 November 2010
08:58 GMT

New Sanyo eneloop Batteries Support Up to 1500 Recharges

Despite of the fact that more and more consumer electronics rely rather on rechargeable, internal Li-Ion power packs, there are still plenty of gadgets out there that still work on AA and AAA batteries, and for this reason, Sanyo has just outed a new series of AA- and AAA-size "eneloop" rechargeable batteries with ap...

17 November 2010
02:12 GMT

Sanyo Intros the LP-XU4000 Environmentally-friendly Projector

Let's face it, although pretty cool to own projectors aren't the most power efficient devices available out there, so Sanyo put its thinking cap on and came up with the LP-XU4000 Eco-friendly projector that adjusts its brightness output in order to reduce power consumption with a maximum of 69%.This new tec...

8 November 2010
05:54 GMT

Apple Rebrands Sanyo Batteries to Ship with Charger - Unconfirmed

Apple may have rebranded Sanyo's Eneloop batteries to sell them in its own packaging alongside the company's all-new charger, recent reports indicate.Tests carried out by SuperApple.cz seems to confirm such rumors, although no markings or physical signs of any kind were found to support this theory.What the...

12 August 2010
10:26 GMT

Panasonic Reportedly Making Storage Batteries for Homes

It seems that Panasonic is bent on creating a working energy storage battery meant to complement the power generation capabilities of solar batteries. The company will achieve this thanks to the technological know-how recently gained from the acquisition of Sanyo. The battery will supposedly enable Japanese and other...

28 December 2009
05:18 GMT

Panasonic Pays Sanyo $4.6 billion, Gains Majority Stake

World-leading plasma TV-maker Panasonic announced that it would be paying no less than $4.6 billion to Sanyo in order to acquire a majority stake of 50.2% of its total shares. The deal will allow Panasonic to make use of Sanyo's expertise in solar panels and rechargeable batteries, whereas its smaller rival will...

11 December 2009
11:28 GMT

Sprint Intros the SANYO Incognito SCP-6760

Wireless carrier Sprint and Kyocera Communications Inc. announced today the launch of a new mobile phone, the SANYO Incognito SCP-6760. The device comes to the market with a large amount of multimedia and messaging capabilities, as well as with an appealing design, and a high-gloss, Titanium Black mirrored external ...

20 November 2009
08:59 GMT

Panasonic Close to Sealing the Deal with Sanyo

Panasonic, formerly known as Matsushita Electric, is now reported to be closer to its goal of acquiring Sanyo Electric, a move that will enable the company to become Japan's second largest manufacturer of electronics. Goldman Sachs is said to have agreed to sell all of its holdings, which account for a 29 perce...

18 December 2008
07:09 GMT

R227, a New Feature-Loaded Internet Radio from Sanyo

The Internet Radio has gained its rightful place in the broadcast world as more people begin to love the benefits and convenience of this kind of means of communication. While blending in the traditional terrestrial radio with the immensity of the digital world, the Internet Radio looks like the best thing that has h...

8 December 2008
03:33 GMT

Panasonic to Acquire Sanyo

Panasonic, one of the largest makers of consumer electronics, formerly known as Matsushita Electric, is now reported to plan to acquire smaller rival Sanyo Electric, as part of a deal that will make Panasonic surpass Hitachi and consequently become the largest electronics equipment producer in Japan. Furthermore...

10 November 2008
04:16 GMT

Sanyo Rolls Out Self-Sufficient, Dual-Lamp LP-XTC50 Projector

The lamp will most likely be the first component to break down in the case of any projector, this being also the reason why the estimated functioning life of a lamp is an extremely important issue when purchasing a projector. So how about a device that would provide a "backup" lamp, automatically alternating the use ...

6 November 2008
08:56 GMT

Sprint Rolls Out Katana Eclipse X by SANYO

US mobile operator Sprint announced the addition of Katana Eclipse X from SANYO to its mobile phone lineup. Available in two colors, Nightlife Black and Hypnotic Pink, the handset can be purchased for $99.99 with a two-year subscriber agreement and a $50 mail-in rebate.A successor of the original Katana Eclipse launc...

4 November 2008
09:22 GMT

Sanyo Rolls Out R227 Hybrid Internet/FM Stereo Radio

Given the fact that the popularity of Interned radio stations has grown so much over the past few years (after all, anyone can set up their own stations in a matter of minutes), there's also an increased level of interest among consumers regarding Internet radios, which allow users to listen to their favorite on...

29 October 2008
14:21 GMT

New Sanyo ALBO Digital Frame Is Retro, Supports Wi-Fi, Infrared

Digital photo frames are a relatively "young" concept, but since the market is already filled-up with such products, manufacturers are trying to diversify their approach to this segment in order to make their offer more attractive. And that's also the case with Sanyo's latest announcement, the HNV-M70 ALBO ...

28 October 2008
16:01 GMT

New Sanyo Blu-ray Module Enables 12X Write Speeds, Up to 100 GB Discs

It's a rather well-known fact that Sony's Blu-ray format, despite actually winning the format war, is not exactly faring very well, its rate of adoption being still pretty far from what its supporters initially hoped. Nevertheless, this might soon change, since the Japanese company has just made a major bre...

7 October 2008
14:01 GMT

Sanyo Intros Fully Waterproof Xacti E2 Digital Camcorder

There's somewhat of a habit among most adrenaline-lovers out there to shoot their every adventure and then share it with their friends (or with the entire world, by uploading it to an online video sharing service). However, in order to do so, they require a camera that can take quite a beating and survive even t...

4 September 2008
04:46 GMT

Sprint Strikes Twice with Sanyo Katana Eclipse and Moto VE20

Sprint's customers who happen to like clamshell phones have, as of today, two new such handsets that they can buy from the third largest North American carrier. These are Sanyo Katana Eclipse and Motorola VE20 (also called MOTORAZR VE20). Besides coming in clamshell form factors, both devices are mid to low-end...

18 August 2008
11:09 GMT

Sanyo Katana Eclipse on Sale in Canada

Sanyo Katana Eclipse is the name of the latest released handset in Canada. The new Katana is being sold by Bell Mobility, the second largest Canadian mobile, and it comes as a pretty small clamshell that refreshes Bell's line-up of Sanyo-made devices.The prices for which Bell is offering the new Katana (both onl...

13 August 2008
03:56 GMT

Bell Readies the Sanyo Katana Eclipse While Cutting 2,500 Jobs

Bell Mobility, the second largest Canadian mobile carrier, will soon release a new Sanyo phone, the Katana Eclipse. Bell is no stranger to handsets manufactured by the Japanese company, as it currently has four Sanyo devices in its line-up, including the Katana LX, released at the end of May. Like the already existi...

29 July 2008
02:48 GMT

Sprint Offers Push-to-Talk Phones in New Markets

Sprint has just announced that, starting July 13, four of its Push-to-Talk (PTT) devices - which work on the Nextel Direct Connect network - will be available in 14 new US markets. The handsets are Samsung Z400, LG LX400, Sanyo PRO-700 and Sanyo PRO-200, all of them being clamshells. Already available in 46 regions a...

10 July 2008
12:52 GMT

Sprint's Upcoming Ten Handsets Leaked

Sprint's current and future subscribers will probably be happy to find out that their carrier intends to release at least ten new handsets in the next few moths. Well, two of them are only new color versions of already existing devices, but they can still go as "new products," right? The upcoming handsets are l...

9 July 2008
12:00 GMT

Sanyo's New 52-Inch LCD Is Waterproof, Weather Resistant, Uber-Expensive

Waterproof TVs have always exerted quite a high level of fascination with most people, especially since they are traditionally associated with a certain social status (after all, not everyone can afford such an expensive product). So, imagine our surprise when we've come across one of Sanyo's latest announc...

19 June 2008
16:16 GMT

Sanyo Katana LX in Canada, via Bell

Bell Mobility, the second largest mobile carrier in Canada, now offers its subscribers a new entry-level phone, the Sanyo Katana LK, which comes as a successor of the old Sanyo Katana, released by Bell back in 2006. Already available in the US, via Sprint, the new Sanyo is a clamshell phone that will appeal to Canadi...

23 May 2008
04:49 GMT

Sanyo Katana LX Out Now Via Sprint

As rumored at the beginning of March, Sprint has now released the Sanyo Katana LX handset, which comes to replace the Katana II model, launched back in the summer of 2007. Katana LX comes in the same form factor as the other Katana, hence it's another clamshell phone. However, the new device is more orientat...

22 April 2008
09:52 GMT

CTIA Wireless 2008: Sanyo PRO-200 and Sanyo PRO-700 Unveiled

Sanyo PRO-200 and Sanyo PRO-700 are two new handsets manufactured by the Japanese company recently acquired by another, bigger Japanese company, namely Kyocera. Sprint will soon offer its customers (or its non-customers that want to become customers) these new phones, together with exclusive features. The phones lev...

4 April 2008
03:26 GMT

Sanyo Katana LX Unveiled by FCC, Soon to Come at Sprint

Sprint's happy subscribers will soon get the chance to buy a new Sanyo phone, Sanyo Katana LX more exactly, a handset that, in a way, comes to replace the Katana II model released last year. Details about Sanyo Katana LX have been recently unveiled on the FCC website, but unfortunately for those who want to se...

11 March 2008
15:32 GMT

Fashionable Pantech W61PT and Waterproof Sanyo W62SA Released

Pantech, the South Korean phone manufacturer, and Sanyo, the Japanese electronics company, revealed two of their latest handsets that will be launched in Japan via KDDI's au network. The first phone, Pantech W61PT (or " Pantech - au W61PT") is a slider created to attract those who want a good looking de...

30 January 2008
12:26 GMT

E-Mimi-kun, Sanyo's Wonder

It is a fact that using your mobile phones in noisy environments can be pretty hard to manage. Other people's voices, car noises and so on will end up interrupting your conversation. But, in order to solve this problem Sanyo has come up with an invention.It's called the e-Mini-kun, a title translated into s...

19 December 2007
10:46 GMT

Sanyo Unveils Two "Monstrous" Large-Venue Projectors

Sanyo has rolled out quite a few powerful projectors in the past, but the company's latest announcement is truly a large scale one. And I'm not referring to the number of products unveiled by the company (only 2), but to their features, which can only be described as "grand", whether we're talking in t...

11 December 2007
07:11 GMT

SANYO Bot Is NOT Sexy, But It Saves Your Butt!

Earthquakes are definitely a Japanese thing, so it's only natural for the solution to come from the same place; well, not a solution against the natural phenomenon, but one that can reduce the number of casualties.In this regard, SANYO tries its best into robotic industry and introduces the ultimate bot, which t...

8 November 2007
04:56 GMT

Hey Lady, Is That a Gorilla Underneath Them Clothes?

Remember that pilot episode from the "Johnny Bravo" show, when the character was desperately searching for a gorilla that had escaped from the Zoo, including under the clothes of an attractive lady? Well, said clothes might be now hiding something entirely different, namely Sanyo's new GPS navigator, the NV-HD88...

22 October 2007
11:41 GMT

Sanyo Is Coming Out with the Tiniest of the 720p Camcorders

Following the release of the world's smallest and lightest full HD camcorder, Sanyo is now announcing the same performance, but this time with a 720p camera, the new Xacti DMX-HD700.An upgrade of the VPC-HD2, the new Xacti boasts the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 compression method, which allows for more footage to be stored...

28 September 2007
06:59 GMT

Kyocera Makes Final Steps for Buying Sanyo

Kyocera has moved from the stage of intending to buy Sanyo Electronic to that of actually doing it. The company is taking care of the final stages in making this acquisition possible and will start profiting from it as soon as possible.Sanyo is the world's no. 11 handset producer, which makes Kyocera's choi...

17 September 2007
06:12 GMT

Sony Ericsson Lied About Its K850i Captures Quality

It is a real shame when even the biggest fishes in the pond get caught doing something dishonest. Sony Ericsson is one of the biggest handset producers out there, which makes it shocking to see that it has tried to deceive its potential customers.The company has posted on its German website some images which are supp...

3 September 2007
04:13 GMT

Xacti DMX-HD1000, the World's Smallest and Lightest Full HD Camcorder

Sanyo keeps pounding the video market with surprising products and judging from their latest products they might have what it takes to go against the likes of Canon, Sony and JVC. Their latest contraption is the DMX-HD1000, touted as the world's smallest and lightest full HD camcorder, that's 1920 by 1080 p...

31 August 2007
06:29 GMT

A New Sanyo Projector With Full HD Support

Sanyo announced the launch of a new multimedia video projector, the LP-Z2000, which is fully compliant with the HD standard and offers a rich new 3D environment as well as high contrast ratios and silent operation being perfect for home movie viewing.The new Sanyo LP-Z2000 video projector is intended to bring the hom...

29 August 2007
07:42 GMT

Sanyo Unveils Butt-Ugly, Yet Powerful LP-Z2000 Projector

The external design of a product is one of the most important factors that affect any purchase decision, at least when we're talking about home users. However, it would seem that the people at Sanyo have a whole different target audience, as their upcoming LP-Z2000 projector has one of the dullest and ugliest de...

27 August 2007
01:45 GMT

Sanyo to Sell Its Mobile Phone Unit

This is still considered a rumor, but Sanyo may be up to selling its mobile phone division. The information has high chances of proving to be as real as possible, especially when considering the fact that some potential buyers have also been named.On the list of those interested in buying Sanyo Electric, Sharp and Ky...

14 August 2007
08:18 GMT

Sanyo Helps Drivers Forget About Fender Benders

Although driving is not exactly the most difficult activity in the world, there are certain aspects related to it that can prove to be quite hazardous, especially for the less-experienced drivers. And one such aspect is the moment when drivers have to back their vehicle (either in a parking space within the parking l...

1 August 2007
11:36 GMT

Sanyo Denies Intention to Retire from Cellphone Sales

Rumors have been going by lately saying that Sanyo Electric intends to give up playing a major role on the mobile phone market. The company has responded to the rumors, calling them "speculation" and promises to continue their work on the handset market.Rumors said that Sanyo was about to organize an auction for givi...

31 July 2007
04:51 GMT

Sanyo Rolls Out the Easy Street NVM-4050 and NVM-4070 Portable Navigation Systems

The personal navigator devices' market is already extremely crowded but it looks like this won't stop an increasingly large number of manufactures from releasing their own products. And one of the latest manufacturers to come up with a GPS navigator is Sanyo, who has just announced the US debut of their Eas...

19 July 2007
08:36 GMT

Sanyo Announces Evolved Katana DLX

Sanyo brings another phone model to their Katana line of devices. Still, after the recent release of the Katana II phone, this new one manages to bring even more performances than previous models.Sanyo Katana DLX is a 15 mm thin clamshell which manages to position itself on the market of mid-ranged devices towards t...

16 July 2007
07:51 GMT

Sanyo Develops World's Most Efficient Solar Photovoltaic Cell

Solar power is becoming an increasingly important subject nowadays, as it might hold a very important role in mankind's future development. This completely renewable and green energy can only be harnessed by using photovoltaic solar cells, but said cells are still very far from achieving a reasonable energy effi...

22 June 2007
07:31 GMT

Sanyo Rolls Out Yet Another "World's Brightest Projector"

Sanyo's on a roll lately, at least when it comes to projectors. Thus, after announcing only a few days ago its short-throw projector, the company strikes again, this time with the PLC-XF47, allegedly the world's brightest professional-grade LCD projector, capable of generating 15,000 lumens via its 4 (four)...

20 June 2007
05:16 GMT


More: next 50 >>

WindowsGamesDriversMacLinuxScriptsMobileHandheldNews

SUBMIT PROGRAM   |   ADVERTISE   |   GET HELP   |   SEND US FEEDBACK   |   RSS FEEDS   |   UPDATE YOUR SOFTWARE   |   ROMANIAN FORUM