Sanyo Katana Eclipse
The Katana Eclipse is a CDMA digital dual band phone with EV-DO for fast data. The Katana has a 1.3 megapixel camera with 12x zoom, and the camera phone can also record video. The camera can capture still images at three resolutions: 960 x 1280, 480 x 640 and 240 x 320 and in three quality levels. The Katana Eclipse offers manual settings for white balance, brightness, sharpness, contrast and has self-timer and multi-shot modes. The Katana Eclipse comes with a standard rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery that's 840 mAh in capacity.
For Katana DLX users, the Katana Eclipse offers little reason to switch, unless the new look and the LED lights were just the things you've been waiting for. The Katana Eclipse's smaller screen and lower-end camera don't compete well with the RAZR VE20. But if you are looking to upgrade from an entry-level feature phone and like the LED lights (specially for young mobile phone users), the Katana Eclipse has all the bells and whistles a mid-tier feature phone should have.
Specs: Display: Main LCD: 2.0" QVGA 65K color TFT screen. Resolution: 240 x 320 pixels. External LCD: 1.0" 65K color LCD.
Battery: Lithium Ion rechargeable battery, 840 mAh, user replaceable. Claimed talk time: up to 4.6 hours.
Performance: Phone book can store 500 entries.
Size: 3.6 x 1.9 x 0.7 inches. Weight: 3.4 ounces.
Phone: Digital Dual-Band CDMA 800/1900GHz bands. EV-DO for data.
Camera: 1.3 megapixel with up to 12x digital zoom. Support multi-shot feature. Still image resolutions: 1280 x 960, 640 x 480, and 320 x 240. Can take video with audio.
Audio: 72-Chord Polyphonic ringers. MP3 player onboard to play music in MP3, AAC and AAC formats. 2.5 mm stereo audio jack. Can record voice memo. Has 4 vibration alerts.
Networking: Bluetooth v2.0. Supported profiles: GAP, SPP, GOEP (General), HSP (Headsets), HFP 1.5 (Hands-free car kits), OPP (vCard transfer), DUN (Dial-up networking), FTP (File Transfer), BPP (Bluetooth Printing), A2DP, AVRCP (Stereo Bluetooth) and PBAP (Phone Book Access). USB 2.0.
Software: Grid view and list view menu UI with bilingual (English and Spanish) support. File Manager and music transfer tool onboard. Web browser onboard and Web-based email and IM supported. PIM tools include Contacts, Calendar, Calculator, Countdown Timer, Alarm Clock, World Clock and Stopwatch.
Expansion: 1 microSD card slot. Supports SDHC cards. 256MB card with SD adapter included.
In the Box: The Katana Eclipse with standard battery, AC charger, 256MB microSD card with SD adapter, printed manual and guide.
Contents
Web Browser
NetFront v3.4 for Sprint
When trying to access gmail:
If Your mobile does not correctly display the image below, please login successfully on the desktop to enable your mobile login again. Enter the correct password above and then type the characters you see in the picture below.
Criticisms
- Display is smaller than original Katana
- No option to force Roam mode
Netfront v3.4
NetFront Browser v3.4 for Pocket PC was developed based on standard Internet protocols and supports the latest standard markup languages: HTML (HyperText Markup Language), XHTML (eXtensible HyperText Markup Language), and WAP2.0 (WML1.3).
It also can display pages to which CSS (Cascading Style Sheet), ECMAScript (JavaScript), DOM (Document Object Model), or DHTML (Dynamic HTML) has been applied, and provides powerful features similar to a PC browser.
Company: Browser by Access
Another emulator for mobile devices is provided by ACCESS. The ACCESS Netfront browser emulator can be obtained from their web site, and can be launched by just running the executable from the ZIP archive.
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NetFront Widgets Contents Development Tools supports the creation of widget contents that can be played on the NetFront Widgets player. Created content can be tested on the PC-based viewer to confirm proper display and operation. The packaging tool is a tool for packaging the various files and documents that constitute widget content into one ZIP formatted file.
Questions / Compare
Katana
Katana LX Eclipse X
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ no low batt beep, no no slim, yes yes analog nets, no no USB to PC, xfer data yes yes come with data cable no no USB to PC, laptop Internet no yes std headset jack yes yes
play mp3? no yes video? no yes data card? no yes force to analog roam screen size
The Sanyo Kantana DLX 8500 is a superior phone to the newer Sanyo Katana Eclipse.
The comparison points above is taken partially from our Considerations When Purchasing a New Mobile Phone.
USB Driver
Use Sprint SmartView for Windows
Contacts
First you can export your contacts to the MicroSD card and xfer them to PC via USB or Card Reader
- TOOLS
- 7 File Manager
- 3 microSD Options
- 4 Save Contacts
- Answer YES to "Save to microSD"
You can edit them with a good text editor on a PC, but you must understand the formatting
If you mass import all contacts again, clear out address book on phone to prevent duplicates
Import the contacts from the microSD card
- TOOLS
- 7 File Manager
- 2 microSD
- SD_PIM
- Answer YES to "Import this file?"
MicroSD
Fixed folders are displayed when you access to the microSD card via your computer in Mass Storage mode. Your data is stored as follows:
- DCIM folder: pictures, videos
- EPM folder: additional information used by data in DCIM folder
- MEDIA folder: media player data
- MUSIC folder: music data purchased in the Music Store site
- MISC folder: DPOF data
- SD_PIM folder: phone book data
- VOICE folder: voice data
- BLUETOOTH folder: data transmitted via Bluetooth
Support
Q: How do you clear all contacts in phone?
- A: First go to settings on your phone, then select security settings. Once you have selected security settings it will ask you for your security code, enter it (it is usually the last 4 digits of your number). After the code is typed in, it will take you to the security sub-menu, then there should be options such as: erase contacts, erase downloads, erase messages, etc.
