CDMA Sanyo 5600 1.3MP MP3 Mini-SD

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Master Geek
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#15455 10-Jun-2005 11:14

The reason battery life is used more during P2T is due to the slot cycle index. The Slot Cycle is the setting used on the phone to tell the phone the intervals for looking at the network for any messages. At present all phone are set to SC 2 this means they look at the network every 5.12 secs and the rest of the time are in a power down sleep mode saving battery, the issue with P2T is the service requires instant connection to make it usable, no one would wait 5 secs before you are heard at the recieving end. So the phones are set to to SC 0 while in P2T mode so they are looking at the network every 1.28 secs. This reduces lag and setup time for P2T but also the phone does not go into sleep mode for as long, hence the higher battery uses

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#15472 10-Jun-2005 19:32

Interesting - that means it's polling - rather than an interupt driven method....
can't help but wonder why they didn't spend the time top make it a push method, a bit like sms, instead of a pull - must be some commercial reason, such as an easy upgrade path.

Reckless

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#15476 11-Jun-2005 00:27

Hi all,
I was starting getting jealous and ready to jump off my 6255i but reading phone scoop I'll think i'll stick with it.

The reasons
1/ The radio: Can't see that the 5600 has one. The Rock morning show gives me a lot of laughs couldn't be without that!
2/- Once youve had wireless bluetooth can't go back.
3/- The phones overseas seem alot cheaper than the 899-00 here converts to. Saw 399-00 overseas.
4/- In my invironment I have no requirement for PTT
5/- Some of the user reviews on Phonescoop where critical of the camera. Even if its 1+ meg if it takes rubbish pics its not much good.

I think I've convinced myself?????

Also I'm sure you have the option on the 6255 to set a MP3 or .aac as a ringtone!

Think I'll wait and see what they have done with the new patch for the 6255. I think the sound is pretty damn good from that. And if the have fixed all of our issues it will still take a damn good product to go past it. If they haven't and only done the switching off thing they will have shot themselves in the foot.

Felix

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#15486 11-Jun-2005 13:49

Reckless,

for a good idea of the quality of the camera on the 5600, it may help to know that it won the Digital Imaging Media Awards (DIMA), Innovative Digital Product Award!!

I've been using both the 6255 and the 5600 for a few months now, and I can say without doubt the 5600 is by a very long way a better phone in almost every respect.

In saying that, if you really want a radio, bluetooth, and or IR then the 6255 is the one.

But, if you want (or at least would like the option of) an award winning megapixel camera, large storage capacity, media player, P2T, video & photo messaging, mobile TV, an extremely high quality display, intelligent UI, WAP2, integrated PIM, brilliant gaming, advanced voice services, all in a well manufactured and sturdy device- well then I'd recommend the 5600.

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#15503 11-Jun-2005 22:20

my 6255 has 512MB of storage :-)

It also has a media player, video & photo messaging, intelligent UI, WAP2, integrated PIM, (brilliant?) gaming . - seems pretty sturdy too.

5600 = beautiful camera, beautiful screen - but if that' important to you, you should buy a digital camera, not a phone :-P

Reckless

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Master Geek

#15513 12-Jun-2005 01:12

Felix

Each to his own!!

I was just relaying the fact that nearly every customer who posted feedback on Phonescoop mentioned that the pics were bad unless lighting conditions where perfect.

By the way my post was stating MY preference, not in anyway slagging the 5600 off. Don't quite know how that impression was taken. If you prefer with the 5600 good on you.

Regards

Felix

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#15517 12-Jun-2005 21:04

Reckless, that's exactly what I was saying... looks like we agree (bit of a strange feeling really)

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Reckless

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#15522 13-Jun-2005 09:02

lol sure is lol

But hopefully its us against them on this forum not us against us.

I thought the discussion on the 6255 issues was extremly robust and very benificial to Telecom and Nokia using all us free field testers! Maybe phones are going the way of computer software lol

Ship it out, then patch it!!

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#15545 13-Jun-2005 12:25

Which in turn is benficial to us and other users as well :-) It was/is a great thread.

echo

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#15880 22-Jun-2005 00:28

Based largely on the discussion in this forum, I upgraded my recently acquired Sanyo 7400 to a Sanyo 5600 - very cool. Have uploaded some MP3's to the miniSD card, and played them in the media player.

But my question is - can you set an MP3 to be the ring tone for incoming calls? I would have thought this was achievable (and a Telecom dealer even confirmed that it was - although not the dealer I bought the phone from). I can't see an answer in the manual - can it be done?

Thanks for any suggestions.

echo

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#15881 22-Jun-2005 01:37

Found the answer to my last question about MP3 ringers. Go here for the answer:

http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=54271

Looks pretty techie, but I'll give it a try......unless someone knows an easier method.

Cheers, echo.

MFR001

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#15886 22-Jun-2005 08:27

I have had my 5600 for one day now and loaded some MP3 last night. I was also under the impression that you could assign a mp3 from the mini sd card as a ring tone, but it will only let you access the video folder from the ring tone menu. Had a look at the web link given and it kinda makes sense, a normal mp3 is going to ba a way to big file for the phone to handle as a ringer I think so a trimed down version is needed. Will keep playing and watch this thread....

cellman

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#15887 22-Jun-2005 09:02

you can not asign a MP3 from the SD card as a Ringtone. The only way is to convert the MP3 to MP4 and use a server to downloaded it via wap. Or maybe Bitpim can load it via a cable

riahon

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#15889 22-Jun-2005 09:27

I had found a way to convert MP3 into QCP files which I was able to download via sprint tool onto my Sanyo 4920. Works ok but ringtones are not really my thing so haven't explored it in depth. Using the sprint upload tool via off menu wap each 1 costs about $3 to download.
Using MP3trim, Goldwave and PVCONV is simple enough to do.
If you can get the qcp file on the mini sd card then creating ringtones would be free.

Felix

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#15890 22-Jun-2005 09:49

Yup, cellman is correct. Now before people start say "What is Telecom doing?" there is a very good legal reason for this... no body want to get sued by the RIAA / RIANZ / APRA etc. Last year Verizon (US Telco) was sued for not making it hard to put home made ringtones on phones (RIAA successfully argued that the ringtones were a public performance, and therefore the Teleco was responsible for ensuring license fees were paid)...

The important bit here (other than RIAA suck!) is the not making it hard. Generally anything is possible! But if it's easy to do, it's going to cause trouble for the Telco...

So, Sanyo have built a handset that doesn't prevent you from making your on ringtones, they just haven't made it easy...

(in fact as RIAA was able to subpoena, and then sue customers on Verizon, it's probably a good thing!)

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