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jt   07-30-2005 at 01:36:15 PM

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I'm looking at the Sanyo MM5600. Besides being expensive, how's the
receptions, multimedia, etc... Pro's and Con's.

Appreciate your input before I purchase this expensive phone.

Thanks,
jt

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Anonymous   07-31-2005 at 09:09:01 PM
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I just traded in my Sanyo 5300 for the 5600

Screen is quite good and has more customization. You can set the font
size, which matters to me as my eyesight is not great.
Can use voice dialing without recording voice tag.
Signal reception seems slighly poorer in terms of bars, but actual
calls work fine.
Ring tones sound great, altho that is a minor matter.

I've only looked at video previews. Picture is grainy but you can
watch it. Sound is OK.

Camera is better than previous one. I have gotten some usable
pictures, athough it took some fancy sharpening tools to make the
picture good enough to print at 8x10. Would do fairly well at 4x6.

I have not been able to get the phone to connect as a modem. There
are long discussions about this issue. If I really needed that
feature I would be in trouble. Luckily more and more hotels now have
free hi-speed connections in the room.

Good luck
Ira Solomon

On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 07:36:15 GMT, "jt" <jtsoft@hotmail.com> wrote:

>I'm looking at the Sanyo MM5600. Besides being expensive, how's the
>receptions, multimedia, etc... Pro's and Con's.
>
>Appreciate your input before I purchase this expensive phone.
>
>Thanks,
>jt
>

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Anonymous   08-02-2005 at 01:01:26 AM
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In article <P5GGe.56171$mC.25348@tornado.tampabay.rr.com>,
jtsoft@hotmail.com says...
> I'm looking at the Sanyo MM5600. Besides being expensive, how's the
> receptions, multimedia, etc... Pro's and Con's.
>
> Appreciate your input before I purchase this expensive phone.
>
> Thanks,
> jt
>
>
>
My best advice to you is to go on over to:

http://www.phonescoop.com

The MM5600 is listed there, and it has a few user reviews.

Laptop tethering seems to be disabled, and it appears to be the phone
doing it. Otherwise, I'm hearing a LOT of good things about the phone.
The only real complaint I've seen is that the phone won't use files on
the mini-SD card as ringers. And there are even people claiming to have
hacked that.

--
RØß
O/Siris
-+-
A thing moderately good
is not so good as it ought to be.
Moderation in temper is always a virtue,
but moderation in principle is always a vice.
+Thomas Paine, "The Rights of Man", 1792+

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Anonymous   08-02-2005 at 03:35:56 PM
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O/Siris wrote:
> The only real complaint I've seen is that the phone won't use
> files on the mini-SD card as ringers.

So what _can_ that mini-SD card be used for?

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Anonymous   08-03-2005 at 01:23:25 AM
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In article <42EFA0E9.88800701@REMOVEcomcastTHIS.net>,
lkslittle@REMOVEcomcastTHIS.net says...
> O/Siris wrote:
> > The only real complaint I've seen is that the phone won't use
> > files on the mini-SD card as ringers.
>
> So what _can_ that mini-SD card be used for?
>

The phone is a multimedia phone. The mini-SD card has a few uses:

1) MP3's can be stored on it and played via the phone's multimedia
player.
2) With a memory card, the length of time recording a video is limited
only by the card. Without the card, the phone defaults to 30 seconds.
3) Pictures taken with the camera can be stored to the card.

There's a fourth, unofficial use: movies. There are compression schemes
out there that can shrink a movie file (wmv, I think, but don't quote me
one it) to about a MB per minute of movie. With a 1GB mini-SD card, you
could have a movie or two, quite a selection of MP3's, and still have
room to use the camera quite extensively.

--
RØß
O/Siris
-+-
A thing moderately good
is not so good as it ought to be.
Moderation in temper is always a virtue,
but moderation in principle is always a vice.
+Thomas Paine, "The Rights of Man", 1792+

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