Blending the practicality of a full QWERTY keypad with a vibrantly colorful designs, the Sanyo SCP-2700 cell phone offers a wide range of mobile features at a nicely affordable price. It has a 2.2-inch LCD screen (320 x 240 pixels, 65K colors) that sits above a navigation area and the handset's full QWERTY keyboard. The keyboard includes a dedicated text messaging key--in one touch you're taken to your contacts list where you can create a message--as well as a dedicated emoticon key, which helps add humor or other expressions to your text messages. And with threaded SMS text messaging, you see the full conversation for each contact in a chat-like interface. Organized conversations make it easy to go back and see the history of any conversation.

The internal phonebook can store up to 600 contact entries with seven phone numbers, three email addresses and one web address per contact entry. Other features include a speed dial function that can store up to 98 numbers (plus one for voice mail), a history of your 60 most recent calls, and caller ID (number, picture, ringer). This Sanyo SCP-2700 phone has a 16 MB internal memory, which cannot be expanded.

Handsfree communication is easy thanks to the integrated speakerphone. This Sanyo SCP-2700 phone also provides Bluetooth wireless connectivity (version 2.0), and includes profiles for communication headset, handsfree car kits, and file transfer. You can connect your laptop (either via Bluetooth or wired USB) and enjoy dial-up networking--surf the Internet, send email, and access files from a server (additional charges or subscription applicable).

The 1.3-megapixel camera can snap still photos in three resolution options (1280 x 960, 640 x 480, and 320 x 240 pixesl), and it features up to a 12x digital zoom (depending on your selected resolution, three quality settings, brightness and white balance controls, multi-shot capabilities, fun frames, several color tones, and a self-timer. This camera does not include video capture capabilities.

Other features include:

- Wireless Backup to manage contacts list in the event that the phone is lost, stolen or damaged
- Voice-activated dialing: Say the name of the person you want to call, and the phone dials the number automatically.
- Speakerphone
- Voice Memo Recorder--up to 1900 recordings
- Organizer tools: alarm clock, world clock, stopwatch, countdown timer, calculator
- 72-chord polyphonic ringers, vibrating alert (4 distinctive)
- 2.5mm stereo headset jack
- Bilingual User Interface--English and Spanish supported
- /T4 Hearing Aid Compatibility (HAC) Rating
- TTY Capable
- Downloadable screensavers, ring tones, applications and games.


This Sanyo SCP-2700 cell phone weighs 3.4 ounces and measures 4.3 x 2.4 x 0.6 inches. Its 840 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 4.8 hours of talk time.