Surprised at how un-small Sprint's Power Vision phones are

I am thinking of returning to Sprint after almost three years with
T-Mobile. I switched to T-Mobile for its $20 GPRS data service, and
now I want to switch back for Sprint's $15 EV-DO service. Funny, how
things work out. I first planned on getting the Palm Treo 700p (see
<URL:http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.palmtops.pilot/msg/25768d8f2d117e3c>).
Since then I've more or less decided to keep my Sony Clié UX50 and
just get the smallest Bluetooth-enabled Power Vision phone I can find
to accompany it.

However, a visit to a local Sprint store surprised me. None of the
Power Vision-capable phones was as small as my current Sony Ericsson
T610; even the Samsung A900 was, although thinner, significantly
wider. If I want a Power Vision phone that's about as small as the
T610, will I have to wait a while longer?

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Small phones = small screens. With a phone that is capable of high speed
data, most folks don't want a small screen.

"Yeechang Lee" <ylee@pobox.com> wrote in message
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>I am thinking of returning to Sprint after almost three years with
> T-Mobile. I switched to T-Mobile for its $20 GPRS data service, and
> now I want to switch back for Sprint's $15 EV-DO service. Funny, how
> things work out. I first planned on getting the Palm Treo 700p (see
> <URL:http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.palmtops.pilot/msg/25768d8f2d117e3c>).
> Since then I've more or less decided to keep my Sony Clié UX50 and
> just get the smallest Bluetooth-enabled Power Vision phone I can find
> to accompany it.
>
> However, a visit to a local Sprint store surprised me. None of the
> Power Vision-capable phones was as small as my current Sony Ericsson
> T610; even the Samsung A900 was, although thinner, significantly
> wider. If I want a Power Vision phone that's about as small as the
> T610, will I have to wait a while longer?
>
> --
> <URL:http://www.pobox.com/~ylee/> PERTH ----> *
>
> Homemade 2.8TB RAID 5 storage array:
> <URL:http://groups.google.ca/groups?selm=slrnd1g04a.5mt.ylee%40pobox.com>

On 24 Jul 2006 02:02:38 GMT, Yeechang Lee <ylee@pobox.com> wrote:

>I am thinking of returning to Sprint after almost three years with
>T-Mobile. I switched to T-Mobile for its $20 GPRS data service, and
>now I want to switch back for Sprint's $15 EV-DO service. Funny, how
>things work out. I first planned on getting the Palm Treo 700p (see
><URL:http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.palmtops.pilot/msg/25768d8f2d117e3c>).
>Since then I've more or less decided to keep my Sony Clié UX50 and
>just get the smallest Bluetooth-enabled Power Vision phone I can find
>to accompany it.
>
>However, a visit to a local Sprint store surprised me. None of the
>Power Vision-capable phones was as small as my current Sony Ericsson
>T610; even the Samsung A900 was, although thinner, significantly
>wider. If I want a Power Vision phone that's about as small as the
>T610, will I have to wait a while longer?

Too bad they discontinued the Sanyo MM-7500 (which I am using now).
It is quite small but has a decent screen. With Opera mini it really
works well.

Yeechang Lee <ylee@pobox.com> wrote:
> I am thinking of returning to Sprint after almost three years with
> T-Mobile. I switched to T-Mobile for its $20 GPRS data service, and
> now I want to switch back for Sprint's $15 EV-DO service. Funny, how
> things work out. I first planned on getting the Palm Treo 700p (see
> <URL:http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.palmtops.pilot/msg/25768d8f2d117e3c>).
> Since then I've more or less decided to keep my Sony Cli? UX50 and
> just get the smallest Bluetooth-enabled Power Vision phone I can find
> to accompany it.
>
> However, a visit to a local Sprint store surprised me. None of the
> Power Vision-capable phones was as small as my current Sony Ericsson
> T610; even the Samsung A900 was, although thinner, significantly
> wider. If I want a Power Vision phone that's about as small as the
> T610, will I have to wait a while longer?
>

Did you try the Samsung A920? Or the Sanyo MM-7500?

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Fred <username@houston.rr.com > wrote:
>
> Too bad they discontinued the Sanyo MM-7500 (which I am using now).
> It is quite small but has a decent screen. With Opera mini it really
> works well.
>

Discontinued? When did they do that? What is Sanyo pushing now?

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On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:01:41 GMT, "Thomas T. Veldhouse"
<veldy71@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Fred <username@houston.rr.com > wrote:
>>
>> Too bad they discontinued the Sanyo MM-7500 (which I am using now).
>> It is quite small but has a decent screen. With Opera mini it really
>> works well.
>>
>
>Discontinued? When did they do that? What is Sanyo pushing now?

They dropped it a few months ago. It came out around the end of the
year in 2005, so only lasted about 6 months. I believe the MM-9000 is
also no more. They have the Katana now which is new but it isn't
EV-DO as far as I know.

Fred wrote:
>On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:01:41 GMT, "Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote:
>>Fred <username@houston.rr.com > wrote:
>>> Too bad they discontinued the Sanyo MM-7500 (which I am using now).
>>> It is quite small but has a decent screen. With Opera mini it really
>>> works well.

>>Discontinued? When did they do that? What is Sanyo pushing now?

>They dropped it a few months ago. It came out around the end of the
>year in 2005, so only lasted about 6 months.

The same thing happened with the MM-7400 (which I am using now), as it
came out in time for Christmas and was on the market about the same
amount of time. I see a pattern here. Thankfully, it was around long
enough for BitPim to add MM-7400 support. This policy of Sanyo/Sprint
makes it rather difficult for third parties to develop software and
hardware accessories to for these phones when they are introduced and
discontinued so quickly.

Is the underlying hardware really changing that fast that a phone can
only be marketed for 6 months? Whatever happened to firmware or
software updates?
Joe Huber
huber.joseph@comcast.net

Fred <username@houston.rr.com > wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:01:41 GMT, "Thomas T. Veldhouse"
> <veldy71@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>Fred <username@houston.rr.com > wrote:
>>>
>>> Too bad they discontinued the Sanyo MM-7500 (which I am using now).
>>> It is quite small but has a decent screen. With Opera mini it really
>>> works well.
>>>
>>
>>Discontinued? When did they do that? What is Sanyo pushing now?
>
> They dropped it a few months ago. It came out around the end of the
> year in 2005, so only lasted about 6 months. I believe the MM-9000 is
> also no more. They have the Katana now which is new but it isn't
> EV-DO as far as I know.

It was available three weeks ago when I purchased [and returned] the Samsung
A-920. It doesn't appear to be on the website any longer. I like my Sanyo
7400 better; it does not have EVDO, but it is a trimode phone and it has a
bigger screen.

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