Sanyo SCP-3100 - blue energy (Sprint)

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While the Sanyo SCP-3100's VGA camera is a bit disappointing, it has a good array of features, including Normal, Night/Dark, Beach/Snow, Scenery, and Soft Focus picture modes; a self-timer that can be turned off or set to 5- or 10-second intervals; Fun Tools (Orange, Blue, Green, Purple, Sepia, Black & White, Aqua Blue, and Normal color tones); a brightness setting; Auto, Sunny, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent, and Manual white-balance settings; 640x480, 320x240, and 160x120 resolutions; Fine, Normal, and Economy quality settings; two shutter sounds, as well as a silent setting; and an option to view the picture in full-screen mode. Photos were predictably blurry but decent, considering the VGA camera's limitations. The real letdown is the phone's scant 1MB of memory, which is not enough to hold a reasonable number of photos. You can use your shots as wallpaper or send them to friends via Picture Mail.

The Sanyo SCP-3100 has a slew of personalization options. You can choose from a variety of wallpaper and graphics, as well as ring tones and short message-alert tones (as mentioned above). You can also download any of these items, plus games and applications, via Sprint's PCS Vision network.

We tested the dual-band, trimode (CDMA 800/1900; AMPS 800) Sanyo SCP-3100 in San Francisco with the Sprint network. Callers sounded good to us and vice versa. The speakerphone audio quality was definitely impressive: loud and crystal clear. The PCS Vision browser was slow, taking a while to load between pages.

The Sanyo SCP-3100 has a rated talk time of 3.5 hours, but our tests bore out a measly 3 hours of talk time. According to FCC radiation tests, the Sanyo SCP-3100 has a digital SAR rating of 1.28 watts per kilogram.

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  "not recommend"

  by yvek on October 31, 2006

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  "great speakerphone"

  by da doc on May 27, 2006

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  "Nice Mid Level Phone"

  by Ricky8587 on July 14, 2006

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