Doug Kanter wrote:

Thanks, Isaiah, for the specific phone model tips. The guy at the Sprint
store pointed out a Sanyo. Years ago, I was in the car audio business,
selling AND installing what I sold. Sanyos were hideous. Absolutely
atrocious. We used to warn customers 10 times to keep the knobs & faceplate
very clean for the first week because they'd be back to exchange the units
for something real. 9 out of 10 people came back.

So, my stomach turned when he mentioned Sanyo, but my experience goes back
15 years. I'll take another look.

There seems to be an odd situation with asian electronics conglomerates,
where the quality of their consumer audio, video and appliance products
in NO way reflect the quality of their cell phones. Different divisions
within the same conglomerate apparently have different philosophies.

I agree with you that Sanyo A/V equipment is junk. However, their cell
phones are uncharacteristically excellent.

Conversely, I have a Samsung refrigerator in my kitchen and a Samsung 19
inch LCD display on my computer, and they are excellent products that I
have highly praised and recommended to other people. However Samsung's
cell phones, for lack of a better term, are total ****. Every Samsung
cell phone I've tried from 1999 all the way to the present are cheaply
constructed, have horrible audio quality, and couldn't hold calls even
when I was outside and in plain view of a Sprint cell tower.

The exception is NEC/Mitsubishi. All of their products have proven to
be mediocre.

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