- Wafer-thin candybar-style phone for easy voice communication and text/email messaging
- Sprint Vision connectivity for Web browsing, email, and instant messaging; parental controls
- Bluetooth for handsfree communication; organizer tools including alarm clock, stopwatch, and calculator
- Up to 3.5 hours of talk time; weighs 2.5 ounces
- What’s in the Box: handset, battery, charger, microUSB cable for charging, quick start guide
Amazon.com Product Description
Easy to carry and communicate, the Sanyo S1 candybar phone for Sprint is an affordable way to keep in touch with friends, family, and business associates. It’s also a great choice for giving to kids, as it come with parental controls that enable you to restrict incoming and outgoing calls and limit access to services. The phone also features Bluetooth connectivity for handsfree devices, an integrated speakerphone, access to personal email and instant messaging services, handy organizer tools to keep you on time for appointments, and up to 3.5 hours of talk time.
The stylish, wafer-thin Sanyo S1 offers Bluetooth connectivity, access to text messaging, personal email and instant messaging, and organizer tools. |
Sprint Service
Sprint Vision provides innovative wireless services like web access and email and text messaging capabilities. Plus, with the Sprint National Network, you get the nationwide coverage and excellent voice clarity. The Restrict and Lock function allows the user to restrict calls and limit access to Vision services–valuable for parents or business managers. For instance, you can restrict incoming and outgoing calls to only those numbers held in the internal phonebook, lock the camera and any pictures saved in the phone, and provides up to three “special numbers” that are always available.
Phone Features
Wafer-thin, the Sanyo S1 weighs just 2.5 ounces and measures 0.4 inches thin. It has a 1.7-inch LCD screen (128 x 160 pixels, 65K color depth) that’s complemented by a navigation area with five-way navigation pad, send/end keys/ and soft navigation keys, which sits above the alpha-numeric keypad. The right side of the phone includes the headset jack port and charger port, while the left side of the phone includes the voice recorder and voice command keys. The phone has a miniscule 1 MB of internal memory, which cannot be expanded. The phonebook can store up to 200 contact entries with 500 total phone numbers, 400 email addresses, and 200 web addresses. The phone also displays the 20 most recent outgoing/incoming/missed calls.
Handsfree communication is easy thanks to the integrated, rear-ported speakerphone, and the S1 includes a dedicated side speakerphone key for easy access.. This phone also provides Bluetooth wireless connectivity (version 2.0), and includes profiles for communication headset and handsfree car kits. You can connect your laptop (either via Bluetooth or wired USB) and enjoy dial-up networking–surf the Internet, send email, and access files from a server.
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Other features include:
- Key Guard: Lock the keys by either using the icon on the main menu or holding the back button to prevent inadvertently hitting the buttons in a pocket or purse. Auto key guard enables you to lock the keys automatically if the phone sits idle for 15 seconds.
- Wireless Backup to manage contacts list in the event that the phone is lost, stolen or damaged
- Text and SMS Voice Messaging: Instantly send and receive SMS Text Messages across the room or across the country, anywhere in the Sprint National Network. Send voice messages to any mobile phone or email address. Just select a recipient, record a message and send.
- Voice-Activated Dialing: Say the name of the person you want to call, and the phone dials the number automatically; up to 30 entries.
- Instant messaging and Web-based email capabilities, including AOL, Windows Live, and PCS Mail
- T9 predictive text input makes it simpler to send messages
- Organization and productivity tools: Calendar, alarm clock, world clock, stopwatch, countdown timer, calculator
- 32-chord polyphonic ringtones; vibrate alert
- Java (J2ME) enabled
Vital Statistics
The Sanyo S1 weighs 2.5 ounces and measures 4.4 x 1.8 x 0.4 inches. Its 840 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 3.5 hours of talk time. It runs on the 800/1900 CDMA frequencies.
Bought this phone and less than two weeks later half of the buttons fell off, never even dropped it. Took it into a Sprint store they told me they couldn’t fix it, but I should gorilla glue the buttons on. Yeah that only made it worse. So basically this phone sucks in my opinion.
Rating: 1 / 5
It’s meant to be a simple phone for texting and calling. No camera phone so your kids don’t start taking pictures of G-knows what. For 8 year olds, it’s good. The texting is slow but if you turn the word prediction setting off, it goes faster.
Rating: 4 / 5