Sanyo Shopping Handset Operations
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If they would get away from CDMA and sell GSM sets like the rest of the world then they would be fine. But being stuck to Sorry SPRINT is what did them in. Sanyo is Sprints best hand sets too. Too bad. Make some GSM sets and ditch sprint , make a come back. Sprint seems to have this affect on everything they touch.
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I agree.
Sanyo handsets are great. The designs aren't the prettiest, but they work great and they can take a decent beating. It makes me sad to see them struggle when other companies with inferior products are prospering with just brute force (*cough* *cough* Samsung).
Oh well... I guess that's business.
Sanyo handsets are great. The designs aren't the prettiest, but they work great and they can take a decent beating. It makes me sad to see them struggle when other companies with inferior products are prospering with just brute force (*cough* *cough* Samsung).
Oh well... I guess that's business.
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They should cell their phone division to Verizon or Alltell since these two carriers are also CDMA.
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evrodude said:
They should cell their phone division to Verizon or Alltell since these two carriers are also CDMA.
Uh... usually cell phone carriers do not want to manufacture their own phones.
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evrodude said:
Well, I meant that they could make phones for Verizon and/or Alltel.
Problem in the United States is Sprint has the exclusive rights to the Sanyo lineup. I believe if Sprint didn't have the exclusive rights to Sanyo phones, there might be a chance their sales would do better here. I don't know when the exclusive contract was supposed to end, but that'll 1 less brand in Sprint's lineup.
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What are you talking about, Sprint doesn't have a contract with Sanyo for exclusivity. The only other carrier who could offer Sanyo CDMA handsets is Verizon, and Verizon has no current need to offer another manufacture alongside Motorola lg and samsung.
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You sir, are incorrect.
Sanyo DOES have a exclusive agreement with SPCS to supply them with handsets. They just reupped it recently, within the last couple of years.
Sanyo DOES have a exclusive agreement with SPCS to supply them with handsets. They just reupped it recently, within the last couple of years.
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Good ? Also, when ESPN Mobile was still around the carried a Sanyo handset also,. . . good point, you made.
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Because they are all apart of the Sprint network. So they are allowed access . Sanyo Phones are great. I just wish they would make GSM phones.
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Why? Alltel is whoring themselves out to whoever wants to buy them, which no one does, but Verizon, I think, would only benefit from it if they wouldn't screw with the menu system but that won't happen.
I don't remember who made the comment about the samsungs but I haven't had a problem with mine. I've put it through hell too. Jumped in a pool with it in my pocket last summer and maybe 2 months ago I dropped it in an electro-plating solution at work that has sulfuric and boric acids in it and it's heated to almost 150 degrees and it still works just fine.
I liked my old sanyo a lost too, though, don't get me wrong. If Sanyo had a phone out that I was that interested in when I was getting a new phone before I would have gone that rou...
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I don't remember who made the comment about the samsungs but I haven't had a problem with mine. I've put it through hell too. Jumped in a pool with it in my pocket last summer and maybe 2 months ago I dropped it in an electro-plating solution at work that has sulfuric and boric acids in it and it's heated to almost 150 degrees and it still works just fine.
I liked my old sanyo a lost too, though, don't get me wrong. If Sanyo had a phone out that I was that interested in when I was getting a new phone before I would have gone that rou...
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(cough, cough, Samsung) Samsung didn't force Sprint to buy it's handsets with anything other than quality products with designs and features that the consumers want. Most of the reason that Sanyo is perceived as better go's back to the days when all manufactures that sold to Sprint were made to conform to certain signal standards and all did but Sanyo. The reason that Sanyo is losing money is that their products are below par and others are building what is being sold. If Sanyo's phones were that good they would be everywhere. Even Nokia said that its better to do nothing in the CDMA space than work with Sanyo.
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I see a ton more Katanas in the wild recently than any single model Samsung phone (even if you count the A900 and A900mm as one model 😉 ). After about 20 software version changes on the A900, the thing still doesn't work.
As for the signal strength requirements, anybody can go buy the Qualcomm chipset and stick a paperclip and some resistors to it and call it a phone. Sure, there is some tuning involved for sensitivity, but signal strength is not rocket science. I am sure there is more to your claim than signal strength limiting the sales of their devices.
My guess is that Nokia is staying out of the CDMA business because it isn't profitable enough for them. Qualcomm takes too big of a cut and so do the CDMA carriers. Also...
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As for the signal strength requirements, anybody can go buy the Qualcomm chipset and stick a paperclip and some resistors to it and call it a phone. Sure, there is some tuning involved for sensitivity, but signal strength is not rocket science. I am sure there is more to your claim than signal strength limiting the sales of their devices.
My guess is that Nokia is staying out of the CDMA business because it isn't profitable enough for them. Qualcomm takes too big of a cut and so do the CDMA carriers. Also...
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Its alot of things and if Sayno, I mean Sanyo truely made the best CDMA phone Verizon would have been all over them long ago. The Katana is the only light in the dark tunnel where Sanyo hides. But I do have to say if Moto can come back with one model then Sanyo can stay around with one too. Pantech is no longer the CDMA supplier for Nokia. That relationship was over last year for future models. I would look to the Ipod builder of yesterdays Foxcon as the new supplier in the coming years.
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