Sanyo sells cellphones (by the seashore) to Kyocera

Sanyo just made official what's been rumored since August: the sale of its troubled cellphone division to Kyocera. The deal is set for completion on April 1st at a value of about $350 million. The deal involves about 2,000 employees moving from Sanyo's mobile phone operation to Kyocera where they can reminisce with ex-Qualcommers about the good ol' days.

[Jay @ Jan 21st 2008 8:27AM]

My old phone was a Kyocera which I hated, and I know friends who've had Sanyos and hated them too.

I'll stick with my good friend LG

[Jamar @ Jan 21st 2008 9:22AM]

What are you talking about? I LOVE Sanyo phones. Not the American-market stuff, the Japanese phones. That's quality (something sorely missing from the Sprint models). They wouldn't be in this predicament if they tried unifyign their product line and gave everyone the cool Japanese stuff. Go look at the W51SA and try to tell me you'd take any LG phone over that.

[ark_v2 @ Jan 21st 2008 11:36AM]

Long ago I had a kyocera 5135. I was really good for the price and I liked it a lot.

[SteveMB @ Jan 21st 2008 7:26PM]

I had the KX5B. I loved that phone.

[NinjaChurch @ Jan 21st 2008 12:47PM]

"..by the seashore" LOL

[hh @ Jan 21st 2008 2:01PM]

ive owned a kyocera and a sanyo before. they were basically featured, but solid and survived some serious abuse.

[PhilR8 @ Jan 22nd 2008 2:13AM]

Sanyo phones rule. My 8300 was a great phone that I actually miss from time to time.