Sanyo MM-7400 review

User Interface
This is the first Sanyo model that I have to review and I am very impressed. The phone's response to command is very fast. No matter if I was deleting 20 images or playing Packmen – the phone's performance was blazing fast. The menu items are very well organized with very clear logical structure.

Picture/Video

The first menu from the top left-hand corner is the Picture & Video. The MM-7400 is equipped with 640 x 480 VGA camera. Its performance is still worse then pictures taken with Nokia 6600 or Samsung D415 but better then Samsung E715 or Motorola V600.
MM-7400 night shots we better then most cameras, but still not comparable with the ones from Nokia 6600. Most MM-7400 night shots had more noise, were darker with a less detail.

The settings in Camera are:

• flash – allows to start-stop the “fhash”
• Self-timer of 10 or 5 seconds
• Fun tools – consists of Fun Frames like for Christmas, Graduations, Halloween and others; Multiple-shots – shoot 3 pictures one after the other; color tone – sepia, black&white, negative, posterization, emboss, drawing
• Image controls  - brightness and white balance (auto, sunnym cloudy, tungsten, fluorescent or manual)
• Resolution – three settings are available – 640 x 480, 320 x 240 or 160 x 120
• Quality – could be economy, normal and fine (different compression levels)
• Shutter sound – can select from the regular camera click to saying “Cheez”
• Night mode
• Full screen

Sanyo MM-7400	Nokia 6600

(outside picture comparison)

Sanyo MM-7400	Nokia 6600

(indoor comparison)

Sanyo MM-7400	Nokia 6600	Canon A75
very low light
more light
normal

Movie mode

Video Recording

After the recording

The movie mode on the other hand is quite good. There are two choices of resolutions – a medium of 128 x 96 and good of 176 x 144. The flash-light can be turn-on and will simulate video-light and unless you are recoding an object just several inches ways, it is worthless (like the flash-light in almost all phones). The other options available in Camcorder mode are:
- self-timer or 10 or 5 seconds
- Brightness – auto or manual
- White balance – auto, or sunny, cloudy, tungsten, fluorescent or manual
- Video quality – could be economy which gives you 30 seconds of recording per clip, normal with 20 seconds or rich with 15 seconds
- Silent movie – turns off the recording of sounds
- Cue Sounds – if enabled the phone says: “Roll Camera – Action” when the recording starts and “Cut” when it ends
- Night mode

Video Sample

My Pictures

Going back to Pictures and Video, “My Picutres” menu has a list of all photos you have taken. From here you can upload them to your Sprint Picture account, set the picture to be your screen saver, view all picture in a slideshow etc.

Sanyo MM-7400 Video recorder sample (350kb .mov file)