And if that wasn’t confusing then you’ll love the fact that I am pleased (no sarcasm there) to announce that Sprint has finally found a purpose for adding that dang locational GPS to your cell phones 5 years ago.

They’re newest phones, such as the Sanyo 2400 Sprint PCS Vision Phone will allow parents to not only control who they call and who can call them, but will allow parents to know where their children are at all times.

This new service now works on 30 phones from Sprint (I didnt’ even know they had that many phones) and allows the parent to keep track of 58 children. Great, now a football coach can keep track of all his boozing football players.

This seems to be a positive direction for sprint phones and technology in general. Not sure how many parents will use this feature. Probably the parents who didn’t let their kids cross the street in the first place but at least it’s available to those who allow them to go clubbing at the age of 12.

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Sanyo and Sprint just announced another wonderful edition to their Sprint PCS Vision phone collection today. The Sanyo A640.

The Sanyo A640 is supposed to provide customers with “Superior Visual Quality.” There are new features to the backlit displays which include user changeable interfaces on the display that one can change between a black and white menu. Great.

The camera has a digital zoom and a timer for those pictures you really want to take on the small cheap imager that is your phone. It also has a personal organizer that if like other Sanyo personal organizer options is quite lacking.

Although the display options would be nice to play with it doesn’t sound like the Sanyo A640 is the superior visual wave of the future.

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The phone is a full featured Sprint PCS Vision phone that enables the parent to easily manage whom the child calls and who can call the child. All the parent has to do is input the numbers the child can call and the numbers the child can receive calls from and press a single parent control button.

Parents can also lock Sprint PCS features like vision and others to keep the children from racking up overages and other charges. (Although I’m sure Sprint will find some way to keep those charges racking up.)

This is a great way to keep parents connected with their kids while keeping their phone usage in check.

One problem we can think of that the phone may have is what if the childs parents are calling from a number that isn’t registered and the call is an emergency then we hope the phone has some way that an incoming call can input a password to bypass the parental control. But then again who knows anyones phone number any more.

You can read more about the Parental Control Phone at Sprint and Sanyo Launch Phone with Parental Controls – Smartphone Blast!

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Sprint announces they will carry the new Palm enabled Treo 700P and be the first to offer the phone with mobile broadband service.

The phone is said to offer “unique” multimedia services as well as the wonderful Palm operating system and all the gadgets you could ever want. The real question is, “Will you be able to make a phone call with the phone?”

We all know that Sprint claims to have the biggest and baddest broadband network in the nation but last time I used the service I kept getting kicked off and wasting my time. It’ felt like the old days of dial-up where you’d wait 20 minutes for a web page to download only to be kicked off and have to restart the process all over again.

Geared towards the mobile business person the Treo 700P is supposed to be blazing fast and work like your desktop in your pocket. I’m sure if you work in downtown New York or Chicago this phone would be fine. Especially if you work in the park. But take the phone in a building and we would love to see it continue to work and be sending that email that was so important. Not likely. Sprint needs to work on their service, both customer and phone before they start into whiz-bang-boom gadgets.

You guessed it. The phone price increased to $350 – $499 depending on where you went and made me wait until that Sunday to tell me. They even had that price on it in February but ended up changing it on Sunday. Naturally.

Well now, 2 months later, the phone price of the ESPN Mobile Phone plummeted. The price is now reported to be $99. I’ll believe it when I see it but it supposedly is because the old Sanyo Phone that the ESPN phone is on is old and outdated and the new phone platform that is coming out is soooo much better.

I like Sanyo phones but I don’t think the Sprint service that goes a long with anything new will be that much better. Also I imagine the phone price is only going to be for new lines of service even if you re-up your current plan, which makes the phone pointless for anyone thinking about switching to Sprint (why I’m not sure), rather than those of us who have been through all of Sprint’s craziness and need a new phone.

Good luck getting a new Sprint Phone anyway.