Sanyo's new W41SA flip phone scans handwriting

by Paul Miller, posted Mar 16th 2006 at 4:03PM

We can't say this new handwriting scanner that Sanyo is including in their new W41SA will revolutionize the industry, but it is kind of neat. Pretty much you just take a picture of some writing and the phone blocks out everything else and overlays the text on a picture. Yeah, not exactly monumental, but an interesting feature, and a good compliment to the 2.3-inch QVGA LCD and 1.3 megapixel camera. The phone also rocks the EV-DO, FM, and miniSD to keep things interesting. They top it all off with TV remote functionality, but Sanyo still keeps things slim at 0.8-inches. The phone is available now through KDDI in Japan.

Filed under: Handsets, Sanyo, KDDI, EV-DO, CDMA

Subscribe to these comments

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Neutral

Nate @ Mar 16th 2006 4:15PM

yeah, they already have that feature in a lot of Samsung Sprint phones. It's called postcard mode. Write a message in black (preferably with a sharpie) and take a picture of it. It'll scan your handwriting and place it over pictures in your gallery. You can even adjust size/color/etc

Neutral

Jeremy S @ Mar 16th 2006 6:54PM

Yeah... I've been able to do that for quite some time already... With my Samsung a940, I can take a postcard of text, change the color, placement, size, rotation, or even shadow it.

GO SAMSUNG!!!!

YAY SPRINT!!!

Neutral

Palmer Woodrow @ Mar 17th 2006 4:35AM

Another gay-ass silver-plastic phone. Yeah, I want my phone to look like an accessory that comes with Power Rangers.

MATTE BLACK FOR GROWN-UPS!

Add your comments

Your comments:

Remember me

E-Mail me when someone replies to this comment

Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments.

When you enter your name and email address, you'll be sent a link to confirm your comment, and a password. To leave another comment, just use that password.

To create a live link, simply type the URL (including http://) or email address and we will make it a live link for you. You can put up to 3 URLs in your comments. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use <p> or <br /> tags.