Excellent with querks
Written: Oct 24 '02 (Updated Nov 16 '02)
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Pros: Many features, color, long battery life, enhanced phonebook/phone log, instant recording
Cons: Lots of buttons, battery breaks free if dropped, web navagation awkward
The Bottom Line: IF YOU DO NOT NEED THE INTERNET, GET THE 4700, IT IS A BETTER, MORE SIMPLE PHONE AND THE NETWORK FOR THE 4900 IS SLOW.
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| mgj71's Full Review: Sanyo SCP-4900 |
**** Update*** Recently Sprint went to unlimited Vision time which is good/great. Navagation is now not a download MB question and you can surf at will, albeit clumsily. Get the replacement plan for the phone, it scratches easily, and does not bounce well....
I am a phone person, I am partial to the Sanyo line of phones, and owned the 4000, 4500, and 4700 before. This is the natural progression, but it took some big steps ahead. Maybe too big for the network and software....
The color screen and menus are good to better, but there are almost too many buttons on the phone now. Simplification is the next evolution, and retention of features. The instant web access is unnecessary.
It is the best phone I have seen, but Sanyo is one of the best that I have seen, if not the best, and Im a phone-o-phile. You will not be disappointed with 99% of the features such as voice activated calling, personal screen saver or picture to caller association, the games are great, but I dont use them. There are little fees and stuff associated with them, but they are nominal. Sprint changed the web usage meter and usage is a bit cloudy as it is in Mb used not minutes, and the phone plans for 3G phones went up $10!!!
I am VERY impressed with battery time, and the web is what you get on a 56K dial up, but not all sites are ready for the browser this phone uses, although they will be in the near future. Hotmail people are waiting. Getting peripherals has been a pain, and it has gotten pretty scratched up.
The GPS for 911 is good, but GPS is cool and needs to be expanded for other application, such as bar location or directions. Nobody has this as far as I have seen on a phone-phone, not including the PDA-phone.
Buy it if you liked the 4500 or 4700, but expect a learning curve with all the new features. It is worth about $100 after rebates, but consider the 4500 or 4700 if you want the great phone with less geek edge to it. It is a pretty shiney object for most people and a waste of cash.
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Amount Paid (US$): 100
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