permittivity2
08-26-2005, 05:58 PM
I can't say that I have appreciated this phone very much. I much appreciated my Sanyo 4900 and when I replace my 7200 (very shortly), I will get a 4920. I have owned the 7200 for over a year now and I owned the 4900 for 2 years with no problem except the battery. I should have just replaced the battery.
This phone, for being a rugged phone, can not handle the heat. My mom's verizon phone automagically shuts off when it overheats.
The speaker phone (which I believe is used for the ringer) is no longer working. I do not hear the phone ring any more, no beeps when I press any key, and the speakerphone no longer works. Makes it difficult to hear incoming calls when the ringer doesn't work. Yet, it still vibrates.
I can't complain too much, during the first and second day that I owned the phone (over a year ago) I was pulling it out of my pocket, it went flying across the street and hit a lamp post. All features still worked, not even a scratch. The second day I dropped the phone in my drive way (grass, not concrete) and ran over it with my 3/4 ton plow truck. Yet, the phone continued to work with no problem.
It wasn't until a year later with the heat during the summer the problems started to arrise with the ringer/speakerphone.
Sanyo, if you are reading this, I am torn and I think I generally like the phone. It has been good, not great. The buttons are spaced appropriately for people with big fingers such as myself. How about a thermister to save the phone from the heat?
The ready link feature was the first thing I disabled. How about making it so that by pressing the ready link button I could have it do something else. Let's get real, Ready Link isn't going to catch on with Sprint, even though they did join up with Nextel.
The menus are a bit difficult to traverse. I wish I could be more clear on this, maybe it's just me. I don't find the menu traversals very intuitive.
Talk time is not kept in the history logs. The history log has some manner of overwriting repeated calls, or something, I really don't quite understand it. The incoming/outgoing/missed calls don't always quite match what has actually happened. There is a logical order to what the phone is doing, it's consistent, I just can't figure it out.
The battery has been great. Much better than the 4900 which royally sucked, although the reviews I read for the 4920 say that the battery is awesome now.
By and large, I can't complain very much. It has been a good phone but I did like the 4900 better and will probably get a 4920 next year.
I couldn't tell you to buy or not to buy a 7200. I can say that I like the 49XX better.
This phone, for being a rugged phone, can not handle the heat. My mom's verizon phone automagically shuts off when it overheats.
The speaker phone (which I believe is used for the ringer) is no longer working. I do not hear the phone ring any more, no beeps when I press any key, and the speakerphone no longer works. Makes it difficult to hear incoming calls when the ringer doesn't work. Yet, it still vibrates.
I can't complain too much, during the first and second day that I owned the phone (over a year ago) I was pulling it out of my pocket, it went flying across the street and hit a lamp post. All features still worked, not even a scratch. The second day I dropped the phone in my drive way (grass, not concrete) and ran over it with my 3/4 ton plow truck. Yet, the phone continued to work with no problem.
It wasn't until a year later with the heat during the summer the problems started to arrise with the ringer/speakerphone.
Sanyo, if you are reading this, I am torn and I think I generally like the phone. It has been good, not great. The buttons are spaced appropriately for people with big fingers such as myself. How about a thermister to save the phone from the heat?
The ready link feature was the first thing I disabled. How about making it so that by pressing the ready link button I could have it do something else. Let's get real, Ready Link isn't going to catch on with Sprint, even though they did join up with Nextel.
The menus are a bit difficult to traverse. I wish I could be more clear on this, maybe it's just me. I don't find the menu traversals very intuitive.
Talk time is not kept in the history logs. The history log has some manner of overwriting repeated calls, or something, I really don't quite understand it. The incoming/outgoing/missed calls don't always quite match what has actually happened. There is a logical order to what the phone is doing, it's consistent, I just can't figure it out.
The battery has been great. Much better than the 4900 which royally sucked, although the reviews I read for the 4920 say that the battery is awesome now.
By and large, I can't complain very much. It has been a good phone but I did like the 4900 better and will probably get a 4920 next year.
I couldn't tell you to buy or not to buy a 7200. I can say that I like the 49XX better.