(keitai-l) Re: Sanyo SCP-5000 browser

From: christopher lowery <chris_at_onegoodwindow.com>
Date: 05/17/01
Message-ID: <3B041FDC.C327D02B@onegoodwindow.com>
The beauty shot for sanyo's local dealers looks great,
http://www.sanyousa.com/products/hi_res_images/SCP_5000RT.jpg

but this kind of kills it:
"you can’t even browse the Web in color, since the bundled
Openwave 3.12 (formerly Phone.com) browser doesn’t support it."
(from http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/558926.asp )

so sad. so dumb. so I wait for rom rev 2.
-chris

Matt Armstrong wrote:
> 
> Actually I'm mistaken.  I'm not sure what the Sanyo SCP 5000 uses -- I
> was getting it confused with the Samsung SCH-8500.
> 
> My guess is that since Sprint is offering it up, it is a Openwave
> browser though.
> 
> christopher lowery <chris@onegoodwindow.com> writes:
> 
> > Wow, it's a beauty - a taste of i-mode. But is it a 4.1 browser
> > including (animated) gif/png support, or is it the new
> > Openwave Mobile Browser?
> >
> > I can't really tell from Sanyo's US-english page
> > http://www.sanyousa.com/consumer_electronics/pcs/scp-5000.html# but
> > i'm willing to bet Openwave wasn't ready, so they did their own
> > wrapper OS, including 'Photo caller ID' (a great entree to video
> > calling) and midi ringtones like the 4500.
> >
> > Hope it's still got the touchpoint system.
> > After I got my SCP-4000 to do this,
> > http://www.onegoodwindow.com/graphics-hut/anim1.gif
> > I fell in love with the little monochrome monster.
> >
> > -chris
> >
> > Matt Armstrong wrote:
> > >
> > > "Andres Crosa" <andres.crosa@starmedia.net> writes:
> > >
> > > > Do somebody know the type of browser the Sanyo SCP-5000 is using?
> > > >
> > > > At Sprint PCS site it says:
> > > > Sprint PCS Wireless Web Browser Capable
> > > > View text versions of popular web sites to access information such as
> > > > e-mail, news, weather, stock quotes, sports scores and more.
> > > > http://e10.sprintpcs.com/store/show_phone.asp?sku=SCP5000KIT
> > > >
> > > > Tks
> > > > Andres
> > >
> > > It uses the Phone.com AKA Openwave Systems Inc. WAP browser.
> > >
> > > --
> > > matt
> > >
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