Sanyo's new W41SA flip phone scans handwriting

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.

[(Unverified) Posted 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

[(Unverified) Posted 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!!!

[Information Central Posted 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!