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If Sanyo's are so good, how come more US carriers don't selll them?
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Posted by: Mannydog

Not being sarcastic here, I am really curious.

Posted by: william83

Wirelessly posted (A620: AU-MIC/2.0 MMP/2.0)

Sanyo is for Sprint ONLY.

Posted by: jimmyjames

Sanyo/Fisher only makes phones for Sprint in the US. They use the Qualcomm chipsets. Nokia only recently came back to Sprint and Motorola has been mostly absent from Sprint's lineup for a while. Sprint's finally going to get more phones from those carriers, as well as Curitel, Toshiba, HTC, etc.

Posted by: dliao

Plus sanyo never had enough experience dealing with GSM system, it's obvious since Sanyo makes CDMA/PDC for their japanese domestic market. There were one Sanyo Phone, but it was colaboration between Chinese cellular company and Sanyo in China.

Posted by: IdiOTeQnoLogY

sprint and sanyo have an excusivity deal right now

Posted by: GiantRobo

Will a Sanyo phone ever see the light of day on Verizon. For Christ's sake Sanyo=cdma, Verizon=cdma. Why no Sanyo phones Verizon? And don't tell me about the exclusivity deal! Money talks and Verizon has tons of money!

Posted by: NutBucket

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Originally posted by GiantRobo
Will a Sanyo phone ever see the light of day on Verizon. For Christ's sake Sanyo=cdma, Verizon=cdma. Why no Sanyo phones Verizon? And don't tell me about the exclusivity deal! Money talks and Verizon has tons of money!

Yeah but do you ever see them spending it for handsets?

Posted by: GiantRobo

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Originally posted by NutBucket
Yeah but do you ever see them spending it for handsets?

Nope! Just for big fat raises and golden showe. . .oops, I mean,err. . .golden parachutes for their big fat executives.

Posted by: Adam F123

Verizon did have a Sanyo phone at one time...or maybe it was back when they were Airtouch...it was a Sanyo 4000 clone.

Posted by: TelecomZombie

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Originally posted by GiantRobo
Nope! Just for big fat raises and golden showe. . .oops, I mean,err. . .golden parachutes for their big fat executives.

lol

any Golden Phones ?
I'd like to Shower on Big Fat Executive

types even Skinny ones !

I found one of those sprint sanyo flip colour screen phones in Toronto . I wish we had some sanyos here again !!

Posted by: sneak16

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Well you could, cough, get a Sanyo from Sprint and, cough, unlock it, as I know for sure the 8100 works on Verizon, cough

Posted by: TProphet

Sanyo phones work very well on 1900MHz, but I had pretty rotten luck with my 8100 roaming on Verizon and US Cellular. It performed very poorly; much worse than my Kyocera 2235 and 2255 handsets.

To Sanyo's credit, the 7200 is much better than the 8100 on analog roaming. Too bad it doesn't roam CDMA800.