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The ThinkPad Z60m is versatile and powerful to meet the most demanding work and home tasks. The Z60m combines the convenience and mobility of a notebook with the performance and functionality of a desktop. This powerful system offers a bright, 15.4" widescreen with the option of either black or titanium models. Offering up to 6 hours of standard battery life also allows you to stay unplugged longer without being tied to an electrical outlet. Impressive features give you outstanding performance and versatility in a powerful, sleek package.

Average customer rating: 3.5

Did not make me jump up and down
It's OK.
Sanyo Katana - Price + Features = Fair
The Katana for people that just want to make and recieve a call
Some good, some bad

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Here's Sanyo's answer to the RAZR revolution, the SCP-6600 "Katana," a phone that meets or beats many of the RAZR's specifications -- all at a lower price. This phone packs Bluetooth, a gorgeous QVGA color screen, a speakerphone, and a VGA camera. And of course, it's very thin and chic.

Design
The Katana's handsome, slim clamshell form factor slides easily into a pocket or purse. Inside the flip you'll find a massive 240 x 320, 65,000-color display. There's also a supplementary, 96 x 64 color display that displays call information, battery life, time of day, signal strength and more. The phone's VGA camera unit is housed above this display. Meanwhile, most of the phone's features and on-screen menus are controlled by a five-way center button above the handset's dial pad. A 2.5 mm headset jack is also provided, as is a USB data port.

Calling Features
The Katana's internal phone book can hold up to 500 contacts, and the phone's picture ID system allows you to assign pictures and ringtones to your most common callers. The phone ships with many polyphonic ringtones, but for those times when you want to be discreet, there's a vibrating alert. A built-in speakerphone makes it easy to talk without having the phone to your ear, and advanced voice activated dialing makes calling friends, family, and associates easy. Simply say the name or number of the person you want to call and the number is dialed automatically without using the keypad.

A unique call screening function lets you listen to voicemails while the caller is leaving them, allowing you to answer the call if you desire. The Katana's GPS location technology pinpoints your exact location when you dial 911 (where available). And lastly, because the Katana is Bluetooth enabled, wireless headsets can be configured with the phone for total handsfree operation.

Messaging, Internet, and Tools
With support for sending and receiving text and picture messages the Katana has you covered in the messaging department. With Sprint PCS Picture Mail, you can take a picture anytime and send it to family and friends instantly while on the Sprint PCS Network. T9 text entry, which is a technology that makes it easier for people to enter words and text on handsets, is built-into the unit-- a plus for mobile email and text messaging users. You can also use an optional USB cable to provide wireless Internet and email access to your PC.

The phone also supports PCS Vision email and instant messaging capabilities. Sprint PCS Vision transforms the wireless experience from something that's simply functional into something visual, entertaining and highly personalized. MSN Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, and AOL Instant Messenger are all supported by Sprint's PCS Vision service. PCS Vision mobile Web services let you check out sports scores, get your seven-day forecast, check your flight status, and stay up to date with the latest news. You'll also experience full-color graphic versions of popular Web sites.

A number of handy software tools are bundled with the Katana including a calendar, a calculator, and an alarm clock. A voice recorder lets you record up to 72 seconds of voice memos for later retrieval.

Imaging and Entertainment
As mentioned, the Katana features a built-in VGA still camera with brightness and white balance control, as well as a self-timer. The phone lets you choose from a variety of pre-set images to customize your display and make it unique to you. With PCS Vision's wireless download service, you can reflect your interests with thousands of pictures of your favorite TV characters, sports teams, celebrities, urban artwork, and more. You can also download games like Tetris and Pac-Man for hours of fun.

Vital Statistics
The Sanyo SCP-6600 Katana weighs 3.4 ounces and measures 3.88 x 2.02 x .6 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 3 hours of digital talk time. It runs on the AMPS 850/CDMA 850/CDMA 1900 frequencies. The phone comes with a one year limited warranty.

Customer Reviews:

Did not make me jump up and down.......2007-05-25

Bought this phone with new service, basically it's an OK phone with a few quirks.

#1: If you buy the plastic belt clip, you need to use a nail file and skinny down the clip arms that hold the phone to the clip. Otherwise these plastic bits will catch the sides of the battery panel on the back and it will pop off the battery panel. Once I filed them down it works perfectly.

#2: No video capability, somewhat of a downer.

#3: When the phone is closed, the time display in the sub-menu is a little on the small size

It's a decent phone, I certainly would not pay full price for it, it is pretty basic and looks clean. Nice feature: the vibrate function is more subtle than other phones, so if it goes off while sitting on your desk, it won't scare the pants off of you, etc.

It's OK........2007-03-10

I have this phone because I switched my plan from nextel, and for some reason this phone doesn't get as good of service as my i710 did. It's a decent phone, but every time you close it it makes a clicking noise, so it feels kind of cheap. Also, the plastic makes it LOOK cheap compared to the razr, but the screen makes up for this. The screen was the one thing I enjoyed about this phone, as I don't really use the camera or advanced features.

Sanyo Katana - Price + Features = Fair.......2007-02-22

I admittedly purchased the Sanyo Katana cell phone based on price fully aware that it lacked some of the niceties of its rivals. Among its "cons" there is no video. I figured that unless I went to see Michael Richards comedy act, there really is no compelling reason to have it.

What I did not know, and what I really dislike, is the fact that to get photo's from my cell phone to the computer I must either sign up for a pay-for service or purchase a cable and software solution. I figured I could snatch the photos from the phone with Bluetooth and my Ipaq like I can with BT Motorola phones. No such luck. I ended up buying DataPilot's kit. Unfortunately, all the wonderful things this software does for most phones doesn't do very much with the Sanyo Katana.

Had I done proper research, I wouldn't have bought this phone. I would have went for the Motorola. That said, it is a decent phone, just limited.

The Katana for people that just want to make and recieve a call.......2006-12-19

The katana seems like a really nice phone. I had a Sanyo 8100 for over 3yrs and never had a problem. Infact had two. My wife had one. We never even had to replace the batteries. The Sanyo Katana doe's everything I want it to. It has clear reception, it has wireless technology and can voice dial. That's all I want in a phone. I'm not really sure why people want to be able to make videos,take pictures and play MP3s on a phone. Although the Katana doe's take a halfway decent picture. It's not a feature I have to have. If your looking for a stylish looking phone and want reliabilty I would suggest the Katana or at least a Sanyo. The one thing I don't like doing is holding a phone to my ear while driving. The Katana with it's voice dialing and bluetooth allows me to make a call without having to look at the phone and that's a feature I really like.

Some good, some bad.......2006-11-14

I first tried the new Sprint Razr as my upgrade phone but returned it for a variety of reasons, but will use that phone for comparison. So far the Katana seems a better fit for me, but I don't think it will be for everyone. This would be a 5-star rating if I was only judging a phone by its usefulness as a phone rather than all-around usefulness.

The Good: nice size & shape, keys easy to see and push, great sound quality. The Bad: limited features.

Do you just want a phone to be a phone? The Katana will be fine for that--which is why I'll probably keep it. I live part-time on a farm, and part-time in a city. Every carrier gets signal in the city, but Sprint is the only one with a digital signal on the farm so I am limited to their service and am resigned to the limitations associated with that.

I have the Razr v3i for when I'm overseas and love it. So when my Sanyo RL-4290 was stolen, I tried the Sprint Razr v3m as a replacement. Awful! I never had a signal problem on the farm with my old phone (RL-4920), but the Razr was unusable since it only picked up every 3rd word of a conversation. Plus had this annoying tendency to "update" the phone anytime I went to a new area (often, since I travel a lot). If you use your phone mostly in one city neither of these things will affect you and you may like the Razr a lot--it certainly has slicker features than the Katana. But another strike against it was that the v3m is just so inferior to the v3i which I am already used to. Cheap and plastic-y, poorly etched keypad, disappointing to me but probably not that noticeable to people without exposure to the very nice European Razr. I can't wait until the US carriers switch to SIM cards so we can use the same phones as the rest of the world.

I like gadgets, but the Katana is sorely lacking in power-user creature comforts. Per the user manual, contacts (vCard format) are the only thing that can be imported--not to-dos, not appointments, not photos. My Timex *watch* has more functionality in this respect!!! The phone has built-in voice activated dialing, but you must record each contact name separately (the Razr recognized the spoken name from what was typed in the "Name" part of contact screen--mysteriously cool). Also, the Razr has built-in voice commands for a lot of actions, where the Katana can only voice-dial. You could spend $5/mo for Sprint's voice-activated service but it's not worth it to me.

It's annoying that the Katana can't export its photos directly to a computer or another phone (must be transferred using Sprint Picture Mail interface). And even if you painstakingly type in your to-do list (since it can't be imported), it only holds 20 entries. The calendar holds 100 events, so that's not so bad. But typing them all in using a phone keypad is a nuisance.

And the Razr has this useful "On Demand" function that used the phone's GPS locator to find nearby shops, restaurants, etc. no matter where you are at the time. I am really bummed the Katana doesn't have this.

My Palm TX was stolen along with my old phone, and I've been trying to consolidate functionality so I can get along without the extra gadget, but this Katana phone is in no way capable of even coming close. Like I mentioned earlier, my Timex Ironman watch syncs with my computer and it's not bad as a PDA replacement for the basic appointments, birthday/holidays, contacts, and notes. And I think it's silly that a phone can't even compete with A WATCH for this kind of basic data management.

Nevertheless, even if a phone has wonderful and amazing features it is useless to me if it can't hold a signal in a rural area since after all its most important function is as a phone. And Sanyo is known for its good internal antennae and sound-quality, and the Katana is far superior to the Razr in this area.

Bottom line: The Katana is a good choice if you don't expect the latest features, and appreciate sound quality and clear connections. I recommend this model for use as a phone.

I think power-users willing to carry a phone both relatively large and heavy will be thrilled with the Treo (my husband has one, and I'd get one myself since it's an actual PDA with phone service, except it's just too darn large for me to lug around).

And the Razr will probably appeal most to people who like the coolness factor and stay in a location with a strong Sprint signal all the time and don't care about a "tinny" voice sound for their calls. I suspect there are many teenagers who've grown up with cell phones and don't even know how good an old-fashioned phone call can sound so they're oblivious to poor sound quality.

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