The Sanyo Katana Eclipse - a thin clamshell phone expected to launch soon with Sprint - has gone on sale up north with Bell Canada. The phone was recently approved by the FCC, revealing a sketch and some info about the phone. Bell’s page for the Eclipse reveals photos and additional details, including that the [...]

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New documents spotted on the FCC site revealed some information about an upcoming phone from Sanyo. The Katana LX is a clamshell and includes Bluetooth. The drawings show that there appears to be no external display, no camera, nor a slot for a microSD card. There is, however, a headset jack. Little else was revealed [...]

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Today documents on the FCC site revealed the Pro-700 from Sanyo. This clamshell has dual displays, EVDO data, Bluetooth, and Direct Connect capabilities. Not much else was shown on the documents. The Pro-700 has not been formally announced from any U.S. carriers

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Sanyo has launched a new mobile phone SAN168 on the Asian market. This is a candybar with a numeric keypad and a touch-sensitive display. It belongs to an entry or mid level and stands out with the support for two SIM cards. You can already find Sanyo SAN168 in stores of Taiwan. The source hasn’t [...]

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The spring collection of au KDDI operator has been extended with a Sanyo clamshell phone W62SA. This is a waterproof phone, which complies with IPX5, IPX7 standards. It features a hinge display revolving in two directions, so you can adjust it for watching “one-segment” TV-programs.
In addition the W62SA comes with an FM-tuner, which can communicate [...]

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Sanyo has agreed to sell its troubled mobile phone division to Kyocera for $375 million. The deal includes Sanyo’s handset manufacturing operations and sales channels in Japan and abroad. Kyocera will keep the Sanyo brand on handsets designed and manufactured by the Sanyo division. It hopes this acquisition will help it expand its penetration in [...]

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SANYO announced with NS-ELEX an industry’s first: a new earphone microphone. This product will likely be a big hit in the niche of the market it is targeting–people who need to communicate with each other in really loud surroundings. This could include people on construction sites, in law enforcement, reporters in crowded scenes, and your [...]

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Today the Japanese operator KDDI has unveiled a new Sanyo phone featuring a big 3” widescreen VGA display made under IPS technology (In-Plate Switching). IPS displays stand out for wide viewing angles, high contrast and short matrix feedback.

The W54SA supports digital TV-programs.
The short technical specs of Sanyo W54SA:

EV-DO Rev.A
Dimensions: 50×106×18.9 mm
Weight: 144 g
Main display: widescreen [...]

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The Sanyo S1 has become available at RadioShack retail stores. It is a slim, bar-style phone for Sprint that has EV-DO data and is compatible with Sprint’s PowerVision services and Java applications. It includes Bluetooth that supports dial-up networking, speakerphone, and uses microUSB for charging and data loading. It won’t be available in Sprint retail [...]

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Sanyo has agreed to sell its mobile phone business to Kyocera for an undisclosed sum. The two companies have been in talks concerning the sale and are said to be reaching the final terms of an agreement soon. The mobile phone business has been a money loser for Sanyo, and Kyocera can use Sanyo’s presence [...]

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TOKYO — Sanyo Electric Co.’s mobile-phone sales business became the first major casualty of its latest restructuring effort Friday, as the company said it would sell the business to phone-retailer Telepark Corp. for 4.8 billion yen ($41.6 million).
Despite attempts to restructure since 2004, losses have piled up as Sanyo has fought battles on too many [...]

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The FCC today approved the Sanyo S1, the company’s return to bar phone for Sprint. Like Sanyo’s original bar phones, the S1 is thin - 11.1mm - however that’s not uncommon for current handsets. The S1 is an entry level phone with Bluetooth, no camera is even visible in the initial documents. Sprint previewed this [...]

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Sanyo is entering the final stages of talks to sell its mobile handset division to Kyocera. Last month Sanyo began discussions to sell off its loss-making handset division as part of a financial restructuring attempt, though it later announced the unit would be profitable by the end of the year. The deal is rumored to [...]

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Sanyo is reportedly in talks to sell off its handset business. Despite mild success in Japan and the US, handsets are still a loss maker for Sanyo. They are looking at other Japanese handset manufacturers as potential buyers - most likely Sharp and Kyocera. Sanyo previously tried to split off its [...]

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Documents seen on the FCC site today revealed the Sanyo SCP-8500, or Katana DLX, another addition to Sanyo’s line of skinny phones for Sprint. This clamshell will offer EV-DO data, Bluetooth and a microSD card slot. Based on the drawings, it also has dual displays and a camera. It loses 3.8mm [...]

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