Comments on: Sanyo Katana Eclipse X Phone, Black

By: Ruth R. King

Ruth R. King — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:13:29 +0000

I purchased the Eclipse to upgrade from the original Sanyo Katana. My only complaint about the original Katana was that the ringer was too soft. Even at the highest volume setting, it was sometimes difficult to hear the phone ring. I was very pleased to see that the Eclipse does not have this problem. In fact, I actually had to turn the volume down a bit. This is a huge improvement from the original Katana.

The phone is stylish with a huge, bright LCD screen. The case of the phone lights up when you receive a call, and you can customize the color of the lights to personalize the phone. The battery life is excellent. The phone itself is very durable, the buttons are firm and spaced far enough apart that you're not likely to accidentally press the wrong button. The camera and camcorder work well, and it's nice to have the option to save photos and videos to the microSD card.

I've had my phone for over a month, have used it regularly and it hasn't dropped a single call. I highly recommend the Eclipse. Rating: 5 / 5

By: Harkanwar Anand

Harkanwar Anand — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:26:55 +0000

Eclipse has a great style. I find this black phone impressive. It has lights on the outside. If you’re wondering whether to go for the Eclipse or the LX, go for the Eclipse because it has a better build quality, a better design, is not as easy to scratch and the display outside has three buttons. This phone does not come with headsets, you’ll have to buy them. The battery life is excellent and the interface is much improved over the Katana LX. The Eclipse is available in Pink, Black and Silver. The keys are silver and firm to touch while the keys on the LX were black in colour. I would take either the Silver or Black Eclipse for myself but honestly the black just makes you feel so good. Light, easy to operate, loud reception, this phone is near perfect. Highly recommended.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: Never again with Sprint

Never again with Sprint — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:31:25 +0000

So, about two months ago I decided to drop off of my parents verizon wireless plan and go with Sprint and get myself a brand new phone. I had looked at this phone before and just thought the world of it. So one day I went and bought it, and life was great for the first week.

A week and a day after owning the phone, at around 10:20am the phone COMPLETELY lost reception (I could not make calls, texts, or even call 911 if I needed to). I find out later through my frustration that Orlando has a 99% success rate for calls and there is no reason I should have lost reception. I drove about 12 miles from where I lost reception to their store and I still had none. Up until dropping my phone off, it had no reception for about 4-5 hours. I take it to the store, they tell me they programmed it wrong.

I get it back the next day and they tell me it's working and I have no reason to doubt them. I get to work and discover the phone still has no reception (my fault, I should have checked, let's give Sprint this one and don't complain about it). Come to find out the tech forgot to link my phone to my phone number, but there also was another issue so i had to get a different phone again. Irritating, but still my fault for not checking, I can't 'really' blame them for it.

Well guess what? A week and a day after getting my phone back around 10am to 10:30am (that seems to be a bit coincidental yea?) the phone completely loses reception....again. After driving back to the sprint store, completely frustrated and angry about this piss poor phone (which by the way, this is the 3'rd phone I had recieved in around 2.5 weeks, which meant all three different phones had some problem with it), the customer service tech had the balls to tell me, and I quote "Oh you are the guy that ____ has been helping right? Well I know the issue you are having, I don't know what the problem is and I don't feel like looking at your phone, so you can either buy a different type of phone or cancel your service"

Obviously, I ate the $36 activation fee, got all my money back, told Sprint exactly what their tech had said to me, and delightfully told them that her rudeness and obvious dislike for her job was 80% of my reason for cancelling my service.

I have yet to see another review on this phone with the problems I had, so I guess the store I went to just didn't have trained professionals, but if you go to get this phone, I wish you luck. It looks great and I love the LED feature, but for me it just didn't work out Rating: 1 / 5

By: C. Zhang

C. Zhang — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:55:17 +0000

First, the phone is stylish. It is well-designed and the different lighting on the surface of the phone is a nice feature. Buttons are well arranged too.

But the phone does have two big drawbacks: The small and tiny LCD main screen. The main LCD is obviously outdated giving such a small size. The four-year old Samsung A900 has a much bigger and better LCD screen than this. The second drawback is the camera. Only 1.3M? It is outdated too.

Hope that Sanyo can come up with something better soon!
Rating: 3 / 5