Review: Sanyo SCP-2700
The 2700 is an apt messaging device, as long as you don't care for the most robust feature set. As noted earlier, the dedicated "text" button is a nice touch if you're in a hurry to compose a text message. Pressing it takes you to a screen where yo can choose to address it to your contacts or a new number. Pecking out messages is simple, though I wish the "back" key were on the keyboard and not above the keyboard. Reaching your thumb up to delete text gets old when you're used to a delete key being on the keyboard.
There are 20 pre-loaded messages, as well as an easy way to insert "web shortcuts", which are standard Internet language such as "https://", "www", or ".com". You can also control the behavior of the predictive text software and add custom words to the phone's dictionary. What I don't like is that you can't insert media into a text message. If you want to compose a "picture mail", as Sprint calls it, you have to choose that option first.
As for email, it is pre-loaded with a number of webmail clients: AOL Mail, AIM Mail, Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, Work, PCS Mail, and the ability to configure your own IMAP or POP3 accounts. Set up is a snap. Once you're signed in, you have access to a mobile version of your email, complete with options that let you call the sender (if a number is embedded in the email), see your full email contacts list and manage folders. Every so often I found the email system wanted me to sign back in, but most of the time it remembered my credentials and didn't ask for my password when I wanted to check email.
On the IM side of the table, you have AIM, Windows Live and Yahoo clients built in. The IM client is identical to that of other Sprint feature phones. Seeing your online buddies and sending them messages is no more difficult than on any other phone.
Where's the social networking integration? Facebook, MySpace and Twitter are conspicuously absent.
In sum, the messaging features of the 2700 are simply average. They don't provide any over-the-top new ways to interact with your messages, but the 2700 gets the basics right.
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