I think the sanyo katana SCP6600 is one of the best non gadget laden phones
out big screen loud head set.
good phone it has been top rated for months in many magazines.
and I cant wait for the release in august of the katana 2.


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"jss" <jss87@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks to all for replies to my prev. post about Telenav; I just bought a
> Sanyo 8400 (nobody recommended that, but it seems to work well; a bigger
> screen would be nice but there were other considerations).
>
> I thought it would be nice to have an earphone to better hear the turn by
> turn voice instructions, so I bought a Plantronics 665. I'm disappointed
> with this; the sound quality is poor, especially on loud sounds like the
> ringing of a called phone, and in general it won't go very loud. If I have
> the earphone on my right ear and put the cell phone in my left pants
pocket,
> the quality suffers badly.
>
> I called Plantronics, and they say that's the way it is, blame it on
> Bluetooth.
>
> Maybe so, but does anyone have a suggestion for an earphone to use in a
> fairly loud car? It's actually a convertible, but I gather no one has a
good
> solution for windnoise.
>
> Back to the real reason I bought the Bluetooth earphone: to use with
> Telenav. Lo and behold, the voice prompts do not appear on the earphone.
> Sprint says this is software, not theirs, but Bluetooth's, but when there
is
> an upgrade that might handle it, it would be on the phone. (?!) It sounds
> like Sprint is just disabling yet another profile, but I dunno. I expect
if
> I contact Bluetooth, they will blame Sprint.
>
> The Sprint CS guy said the wired earphone should work; I'll try that in
the
> morning when everything, including me, is recharged. Reverting to a wired
> solution sounds pretty lame; but all in all, counting the number of wires
> you have to carry around with you to charge the earpiece, it's not bad at
> all.
>
> If anyone has a favorite earpiece, please let me know. Also, if you know a
> Bluetooth earpiece/phone/nav service/cellular carrier that play together
> well.
>
> John
>
>
>