WEST U.S. -- Seeking OLD Sanyo SCP 6000/6200/6400

Do these phones have the E911 capability? If not, none of them can be activated.

I have seen a Sanyo 6200 listed on craigslist here in Phoenix for $10.
BlackBerry8330m/4.5.0.138 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/104

 

Actually, I still have a sanyo 6200! It's still such a neat, thin little phone. It should have E911 capabilities, as I used it around the same time as my Samsung a460, which had E911.

However, this phone is 850AMPS/1900CDMA only, you will not have the 850 CDMA coverage of verizon and alltel for roaming.

 

Yeah, I used to own the 6400 and I thought it was E911. I just looked at the spec sheet at Sanyo's website and it uses tower triangulation for GPS and says it is E911 compliant.

 

Enjoy it, but beware of it's limitations

 

So long as Sprint works fine where you need it to, you won't miss the 850 CDMA.

I am going to be getting a hybrid Nextel/Sprint phone soon and they don't do CDMA roaming on 850MHz either, but like you, I don't really care. If someone can't reach me, they can just wait.

 

Well for me, it's not a matter of someone not being able to reach me, but me being able to call for help! Odds are that if I need verizon or alltel, its going to be somewhere where 1900 does not reach. I would never want to be trapped somewhere, needing help, where sprint is MIA, and there is a perfectly good 850 signal that I cannot use.

 

It will work for 911 so long as it has any signal.

 

Some of the older Sanyo phones were very good. I recently found a brand new Katana 2 for $100 and picked it up. Had never been opened. I think it's a much better quality phone than the new katana LX.

 

don't go down the hybrid road unless you absolutely have to. thinking about all of the billing and technical issues i had and the hours i spent on the phone with CS makes me cringe. granted, that was more than a year ago... maybe sprint worked out some of the kinks.

my favorite suprise was:

"Please note, for existing Sprint PCS customers activating the Sprint Nextel Hybrid Phone, the existing Sprint PCS service plan will be expired. A $200 termination fee will be applied, which cannot be waived at this time"


these FAQ's are very helpful.
Sprint - FAQs[FAQs]
Sprint - FAQs[FAQs]
Sprint - FAQs[FAQs]

 

I made the switch today. It was simple and I was in and out of the store in 5 minutes. Switching between iDEN/CDMA/Hybrid is pretty seamless now. Or at least it is vastly improved over the process 10 months ago.

No prorations/plan changes needed now, just code changes for the add-ons (data, SMS, etc.).

 

That's great to hear.