The rather decked
Sanyo M1 has managed to get musicphone-yearnin' Sprint fanboys salivating already, without even a complete set of press shots to glom onto. Well, we're here to set the story straight, with a few press photos from an anonymous tipster of the M1 in all its glory, along with a full-on spec sheet for your perusal. As evidenced by
those eBay shots we spotted in October, the phone isn't exactly RAZR bustin' when it comes to slim, but it's still plenty pocketable, and those fancy deets like 1GB of memory, a 2.0 megapixel camera (with flash), A2DP, and a QVGA internal display should justify the bulk here -- for wearers of all but the slimmest of jeans, at least. The best news is that the phone is purportedly set for a soft launch tomorrow, December 3rd, and some reports are coming in of phone orders going through already. Apparently the phone costs $349 -- we believe that's without contract -- but we suppose we'll find out all of this tomorrow, so no use sweating the small stuff at this point. Keep reading for that spec sheet and a few jumbo pics.
posted December 2nd 2006 10:47AM
Hmm...drop the V3m for this, or wait on the Q...
...I think I'll just wait on the Q.
Yea, people have already been ordering it from about mid-day thursday.
i think this was turk's new phone on scrubs
bye bye bye!
He was using a Katana. Not an M1. Easy mistake though as their both squarish phones.
New phones always take a while before they make an appearance from a canadian vendor ):
Cool
Wow, that is one chunky monkey!
this phone's main selling point is its huge amount of built in memory. if you want to stay with sprint, and want a thinner phone with expandable memory, check out some of the newer samsungs. M500 is only .65 of an inch thick, and M610 is only .47 of an inch thick, but with M610, you have to remove the battery to change memory cards, and i've heard the keypad feels like a cheap sheet of rubber.
i know that if i was able to pocket a phone so thick, the M1 would be my first choice.
interesting to see, though, that sanyo is making phones with no ready link (M1 and katana) but are very multimedia centric(M1 because of its playback buttons, huge amount of built-in memory, and SD slot if it has one, MM7500 because of its SD slot) and fashionable looking(katana, and if you don't mind thick phones, M1), something that samsung(ultra edition and blade phones are both thin and multimedia centric) and nokia(not a champion in the thin world, but if you listen to music on your phone, it's hard to beat an N-series) generally do more of.
The phone is already on the Sanyo website (http://sanyo.com/wireless/handsets/index.cfm?productID=1428) and the phone does have Sprint Ready Link.
They're starting to figure out that the Americans like "multimedia computers" as much as the Japanese do. Now if they would only offer something like http://www.au.kddi.com/english/product/lineup/w33sa/index.html to Sprint instead of keeping all the good stuff in Japan I'd be more willing to go to Sprint.
Sure, it's nice that the thing has 1GB of memory, but it's superfat-huge and pretty ugly to top things off.
i've red the info on this phone. i couldn't feel it. i did not see the standby time for the phone. very cheap lookin on the keypad.
Hey this is a cool phone i just picked it up today and as far as thickness its the same as the lg fusic i have . I have been wanting this phone since i first read about it and its way worth the wait and the 1 gig is awsome no changing memory cards and that
No one's mentioning that this phone's bluetooth stack is support A2DP. So, you'll be able to listen to bluetooth stereo headphones with it.
This phone is it! The size is like the fusic and it is cute! Doesn't feel flimsy like the Razr and I'm not afraid of breaking it. Had a Razr that slipped to the floor, carpeted no less, and the back and battery popped out. It didn't even hit hard at all. This phone is sturdier, and love the 1GB internal memory! Imagine setting it on your desk w/the speakers set up high and the music BLARING!! We have 3 of them and LUV THEM!!!