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Sanyo SCP-5000

The Sanyo SCP-5000
Guide Rating -  
Pros  • Ultra-cool personalization features
• Unlike Nokia phones where you need to purchase separately, the Sanyo comes with a data cable and personalization software
• Lightweight
• Sizeable fonts
Cons  • Usually expensive
• Color LCD could be greatly improved
• At such a price and with so many nice features, they should have also added an MP3 player and it would have been the ultimate phone.
The Bottom Line - One of the best of the year 2001.

 
 
Guide Review
Color screen phone and polyphonic ringtones
One of the best phones available in North-America and probably my next personal phone. The color screen makes it fun to use and the personalization features are way more advanced than with other phones: instead of downloading tiny black and white graphics, you can use full color pictures and instead of a monophonic ringtone, download a standard midi file that sounds like a small orchestra. Wow!

However, I must warn those who would be too enthusiastic about the color LCD that it is not the usual bright LCD that we are used to in digital cameras or laptops. The Sanyo LCD's colors are less vivid than what you are used to.

 
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