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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

Sanyo Introduces the Short Throw Projector

Enough for what, you might add. Well, for a lot of things. But in order to understand exactly how it is possible to produce such an impressive image from a rather small projector you will have to understand some things about the term "short throw".For example, "short throw" has no direct relation with the displayed i...

15 June 2007
08:41 GMT

Go Underwater with Sanyo's Waterproof Camcorder

Sanyo camcorders are not something extraordinary in terms of image quality or performances, but they sometimes manage to make quite an impact on the general public. Take for instance the Sanyo Xacti E1, which might be the first waterproof camcorder. It won't make you an underwater explorer, but it will allow you...

23 May 2007
08:41 GMT

Sanyo's SCP-7050 Rugged Enough For The Military

Sanyo has recently announced the ultra-rugged SCP-7050, the first of the manufacturer's phones to adhere to Military Standard 810F for dust, shock and vibration. Thought to be ideal for business users such as those in construction, maintenance and other tough environments, Sanyo's newest handset is also a g...

28 March 2007
05:06 GMT

Sanyo to Present Dual Mode Handsets

Beceem Communications, a leading provider of chipsets for Mobile WiMAX technology has announced that mobile phone manufacturer Sanyo has chosen their BCS200 chipset as the foundation for a WiMAX handset. Sanyo will be using the chipset and systems software for the development of a dual-mode CDMA/WiMAX mobile phone wi...

22 March 2007
09:09 GMT

The Ultimate Massage Chair

What's the best method of relaxation after a hard day at work? Well, I could give you quite a few examples, but instead I'll just stick to one of my favorites, massage, and a device that's capable of providing you with (almost) the same relaxing experience as a masseuse, namely the HEC-SA5000K Massage ...

5 March 2007
03:00 GMT

Sanyo SCP 7050 Approved by the FCC

The Federal Communication Commission has approved Sanyo's SCP 7050 cellphone, which is an entry level ReadyLink handset. The phone looks like Sci-Fi laser stunner and, if Sanyo is going to keep this design until the device arrives on the mobile market, I bet there will be a lot of Star Trek fans that will give a...

2 March 2007
09:52 GMT




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