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Summary: great phone!
Review: i love this phone. a few years ago i knew a guy who had a phone with internet service. it was a big and bulky thing, like a shoebox, almost. the internet connection sometimes took 5 minutes. i thought it was so cool.
i didn't know what cool was. the bright color screen of this phone is very vibrant and contains good-sized text. all kinds of different ring tones can be downloaded. from tones to actual songs, it's an awesome feature, but you cannot prelisten to the tones before you download them. that is a real letdown. i downloaded "diff'rent strokes" blindly and was very accepting of it's replicated melody. but when i downloaded "goodtimes" it sounded like a mixture of "cheers" and "taxi."
photo quality is a notch less than average. about what you could expect from a celphone in this day and time, with no zoom. the feature of choosing different frames for your photos is cute and it's even better that you can email them to any address you have loaded.
this is a phone review, so i won't talk about the sprint service as it is immaterial. let's just say that it could be better, but i won't count that against the phone.
it's got a huge phone address databank and you can apply photos and rings to certain numbers. when my fiance' calls, her picture lights up on the screen with her "american pie" ringtone blaring. supercool.
included is a calculator, calender with daily schedule alerts, a strong gaming system and lots of different applications that you can download, such as mapquest or the weather channel. if you're lost, the ability to pull up mapquest on your freakin' celphone is a godsend. the phone is compact and comes with pc connection inlets.
with all these features, it manages to actually allow you to dial phone numbers and talk to people who also own phones. that helps too.
Rating: 
Summary: Great phone - crappy service
Review: I love this phone. I've had my own for over a year now and have since bought one for my son and for my daughter. Battery life is excellent, more features that I could dream of using. The phone camera takes OK photos (don't even try at a concert... haha) - and the more modern phones do better in this department, but I'm very satisfied. Just be forewarned. With Sprint PCS, you will encounter many dropped calls and ignorant customer service staff. I've been with Sprint for 7 years now, so I know what I'm talking about. I'd switch, but we get a really good deal through our company. But I digress... the phone is great, I highly recommmend.
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Summary: THIS PHONE IS OFF THE HOOK!!!!!
Review: i own this cell phone. this cell phone is really good for its price you could go online and download games, screensavers, and lot of other things also if you are a member of msn, aol, or yahoo you could log in and chat with ur friends and it has a lot of other features so, that's why i think this phone is really good.
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Summary: Very good phone, very, very bad customer service
Review: I purchased the 8100 only because I lost my LG phone which worked well for me in the time I owned it. The 8100 has all these extras that come in handy. The problem is the lousy customer service and the large percentage of incompetant people that you have to deal with. I feel sorry for anyone who has to call them for technical support. If your phone works fine and you never have to deal with them, then count your blessings.
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Summary: Sanyo SCP-8100
Review: I received this phone from Sprint as a replacement for an LG 5350 which the Sprint store "killed" while doing a firmware upgrade. The only good thing I can say about this phone is the reception is generally excellent. The Sanyo software is really awfull compared to Samsung & LG - you can have only 8 speed dials! They told me it came with an "extended" battery. I thought the battery life looked good until I actually made a couple of 20-minute calls, then bam - the battery is dead. The battery gets quite warm after about 5 minutes of talking. The camera is not something I really care about. It is kind of cool though to have a person's picture pop up when they call you. The ringers are lousy (they're all that way now as they want you to pay to download ringers).
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Summary: Sanyo SCP-8100
Review: I recently purchased the Sanyo SCP-8100 3G phone, and I am extremely pleased with it's performance and highly recommend it to anyone looking for a 3G phone that overperforms. The only things I would improve are it's lack of faxing ability(Sprint has it hardwired into the unit, so you can only dial #777 for it's data service) & I wish Sprint gave you more in the line of technical information ! I've had a Qualcomm QCP-2700 before,(also a very good phone)and the throughput was limited to 19.2k, but now I am averaging at least 50-60k average with my SCP-8100, built in web browsing too. Not too bad, V.92+ speeds on a reliable CDMA 3G phone, and before I forget I have never gotten one dropped call either. Sanyo keep up the good work !!
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Summary: THE WORST PHONE!
Review: I should have paid better attention to the negative reviews for this phone. This phone has two major flaws. (1) Unless you place the phone over your ear in the exact spot, you can't hear the other person speaking..(2) Voices come over garbled and smashed. I am 'constantly' saying, "what? pardon me? I can't make out what you're saying!" What a waste of [money] (...) Don't waste another moment of your life looking at this phone. It will be discontinued like all the rest very soon! GUARANTEED!
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Summary: Pros and Cons
Review: I tend to upgrade cell phones once a year, and this is my latest that I've had for a month. Relative to the "state of the art" a year ago, here's the pros/cons:- Photo feature is very fun. I have no "real" use for it, but it is extremely amusing to have the photo of the person come up as their caller ID. Emailing a picture is slow. Picture quality is good enough really only for use on the tiny phone screen -- even on a computer the image looks lousy, and it certainly isn't good enough for printing. - Range is a big improvement. I'm getting service in areas I didn't use to. - Slightly thicker than not having the photo option -- so there's a slight "carrying cost" to the camera - Sound quality is mixed. Even though the reception is stronger, for some reason voices sound a little garbled on this phone. You have to line your ear up just right too to listen.
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Summary: Finally a Phone I haven't had a problem with!
Review: I went through about 5 phones within a 4 month period always some kind of problem. Until I upgraded to the Sanyo 8100 which Im shocked to have now had it for longer than a year. I could have sworn it would just had lasted me about 6 months. So I rate this Sprint phone with 5 stars and I plan on staying with it till it dies or just stay in the Sanyo family.
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Summary: Don't buy this phone.
Review: I'm surprised how many other reviewers liked this phone. I can't imagine that they've actually used it much. This phone suffers from poor usability all over: It's a little too slick to hold, it's hard to open with one hand, it's hard to hear unless you hold it just the right way to your ear, the reception is awful (this is compared to a cheaper phone at the same place and time on the same Sprint network), the menuing system is clunky, and it uses it's sloooowww web interface to compose email (including SMS texting... it takes 10 to 20 seconds just to get into the message editor). This is just one of those products that you know the makers don't actually use themselves. It would take a lot of convincing to get me to try another Sanyo product after this experience. I may just go back to Nokia.
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