Sanyo SCP-8400
Infosync reviews the Sanyo SCP-8400 and writes, “multimedia offerings on the SCP-8400 are good thanks to Sprint’s online content. Plenty of tunes are available from the Spint Music Store, and the player can show artwork and group music into playlists. Sprint TV also works well: shows look good, with a little blockiness on some programs, and the phone can display video full-screen in landscape view, revealing a nice, wide picture. Sirius offers 20 music channels through Sprint’s Power Vision network, at an additional cost, of course, and these sound great, although track titles and artist listings would have been nice. The browser, while snappy, cannot handle any complicated content. The New York Times homepage looks jumbled, with overlapping fields and missing images. We liked the phone’s GPS navigation abilities, courtesy of Garmin Mobile. Directions were accurate, though the maps were not very detailed.”
CNET reviews the Sanyo SCP-8400 and writes, “Music quality was somewhat improved over the LG LX550, but not quite as good as on the Samsung MM-A900. The volume was loud, so we could hear our tracks plainly, and it lacked the hissing sound we heard on the LX550. We wish, however, that the SCP-8400 offered stereo speakers. Music tracks took just over a minute to download and took a few seconds to load.”
PCMag reviews the Sanyo SCP-8400 and writes about the phone’s music player: “A powerful speaker also makes the 8400 a dandy music player. The phone plays MP3 or M4A files ripped at any quality up to 320 kilobits per seconds and stored on a MicroSD card (a 64MB card is included, but you can use cards of up to 2GB). You can build playlists on the phone or with any PC program that creates standard M3U playlists. It’s also possible to use a PC-based card reader or hook the 8400 up to a PC with the included USB cable in mass-storage mode. Music through the mono speaker on the outside of the flip (especially with the flip closed) is unusually loud for a phone, and sound through Plantronics MHS-213 earbuds connected to the 2.5mm headset jack wasn’t bad either, though the included stereo earbuds are pretty lousy. Alas, you can’t play music over Bluetooth, unlike on the Fusic, and the lack of music-player controls when the flip is closed is frustrating.”