Bell Mobility in Canada is adding two new devices to its offering – LG Shine clamshell and Sanyo S1. The first one is probably among the coolest lookin’ clamshell devices on the market today and packs such features as 2 MP camera, stereo Bluetooth, music player and the microSD memory slot. On the other hand,…
Sanyo S1 video tour
We now it’s coming to Sprint and we’ve even seen it passing the FCC hurdle. And now, PhoneScoop is giving it a try in a 3-minute long video tour. As you’re about to see, the S1 doesn’t actually pack tons of features — it’s a simple, stylish, basic phone for people who want their handset…
TelePark buys Sanyo’s mobile phone sales division
Wow, it really looks like Sanyo is offloading all of it’s mobile phone divisions. The latest mobile phone arm to take new ownership is Sanyo’s mobile phone sales division. TelePark Corp. has ponied up 4.8 billion yen ($41.6 million) to Sanyo for the mobile phone manufacturer’s sales department. We should make it clear that TelePark…
Kyocera prepping to buy Sanyo’s mobile phone division
Remember when we told you that Sanyo wanted out of the mobile phone manufacturing business? Well, it seems they’ve found a suitor to take their not-so-blushing mobile phone division off their hands. Kyocera is reportedly in the final stages of negotiations to buy Sanyo’s in-the-red handset business. If the acquisition goes through, we could see…
Sanyo S1 candybar phone spotted on FCC
Sanyo’s getting their slim-on with this new Sanyo S1 candybar that we spotted on the FCC webpage. Details on the S1 are just as slim as the 11.1mm profile – thanks to a locked-down confidentiality agreement – but we can tell you that we’re looking at Sprint to handle the Sanyo S1’s launch honors. This…
WillCOM teams up with Sanyo on AA-powered bare-bones mobile phone
WillCOM is always good for an interesting take on mobile phone design. We love seeing what the Japanese company is going to come up with next – modular, torch-light, headphoneswhat‘s next? Well, their newest concept is the fruit of a joint project with Sanyo – the AA battery-powered mobile phone that you see to the…
Video: Hands-on Sanyo Katana II, DLX
PhoneScoop‘s Eric M. Zeman had a chance to get his hands on two Sanyo Katana clamshells – DLX and Katana II. Both devices are available through Sprint, and are retailing for $129.99 and $49.99 respectively with a two-year subscriber agreement and a $50 mail-in rebate. As you can tell, the DLX is a better device,…
Sanyo’s mobile phone division might be for sale; no profit for the past 3 years
Burning money can be fun. If anything it shows people how wealthy you are. Keeping a company alive that hasn’t made any cash in 3 years however is down right foolish. Sanyo’s mobile phones division is struggling to stay afloat and with estimates to sell 11 million phones in the current fiscal year, down from…
Sanyo plans to unload mobile phone division
It looks like Sanyo Electric Co. is wiping its hands clean of the mobile phone game. Sources “close to the matter” are saying that Sanyo is prepping Osaka-based Telecom Sanyo Co. for the auction block – with an expected sale amount in the billions of Yen, a healthy boost to the struggling company’s coffers. The…
Sanyo’s Katana DLX goes live on Sprint!
As expected, the rumored Sanyo Katana DLX is no longer a rumor. Sprint has gone live with their Katana DLX. The recently FCC-approved twin-brother to the Sanyo Katana II seems to have gotten the lion’s share of brains when it comes to the duelling successors to Sprint’s original Sanyo Katana. The Sprint Katana DLX outshines…