Sanyo Katana Reviews
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When the Samsung MM-A900 arrived from Sprint late last year, we called it Samsung’s answer to the Motorola Razr, thanks to its slim shape and similar, flip-phone design. Fast-forward several months, and Sprint has yet another Razr competitor on its hands: the Sanyo 6600 Katana. Having named it after a type of samurai sword, Sanyo clearly has high ambitions with this slim and slender handset, perhaps aiming to draw people away from the widely popular Razr. But without features such as a megapixel camera, a music player, or 3G support, the Sanyo 6600 Katana pales in comparison to both the Samsung MM-A900 and Verizon’s Razr V3m. On the upside, its retail price of $279.99 is markedly cheaper than that of the Samsung and Motorola phones, and you can get it for $79.99 after a two-year service contract with Sprint. It also comes in Mystic Black, Sapphire Blue, Cherry Blossom Pink, and Polar White. The white phone is sold exclusively at RadioShack.
Sprint PCS Vision Phone Katana By Sanyo review by PC Magazine
Sprint’s new Sanyo Katana may look exactly like a plastic RAZR, but it’s no disposable. It’s a reasonable midrange phone designed to help Sprint customers scratch their itch for the nation’s most popular form factor.
The RAZR phenomenon has dominated the cell-phone world for a year now, but Sprint has been left out. Instead, it turned to Sanyo to develop a clone. The Katana looks like a slightly longer, squarer RAZR, complete with an antenna bulge at the bottom. Just like on the RAZR, there’s a VGA camera above a small color screen on the front, volume buttons on the left side of the flip, and a nonstandard headphone jack that works with an adapter. Like the RAZR, it also comes in colors: black, blue, and pink.
Gearlog : PC Mag’s Sanyo Katana Review
That should probably read, my Sanyo Katana review. I got some time to test Sprint’s hot new RAZR clone, and it’s quite pretty. It probably won’t thrill the crazed feature-hounds who comment on Engadget threads, but it will do pretty well among voice-oriented consumers who are looking for something even more RAZR-ish than the Samsung MM-A900. And it comes in pink. I suspect the pink one is going to do quite well indeed.
One mystery: why does a low-to-midrange phone have a super-high-res 320×240 screen? That makes for some great Opera Mini Web surfing, but it seems out of place on a non Power Vision device with no streaming video or high-powered camera.
Sanyo Katana hands-on impressions - infoSync World
Slated to arrive next month in Sprint’s handset lineup, the Katana clamshell phone has the same slim-and-trim profile of Motorola’s RAZR handsets and the Samsung MM-A900 “Blade,” although it’s lacking their 3G abilities.
We had a chance to check out the Katana at Gotham’s Digital Experience show, and we came away impressed by how light and comfortable the phone felt in our hands, although at 3.9 by 2.0 by 0.6 inches and 3.5 ounces, the Katana has about the same size and heft as the RAZR and the Blade. Zipping around the various menus, the phone seemed reasonably responsive, and the internal 65,000-color LCD looked reasonably good given its cut-rate STN pedigree.
