Sanyo VI-2300 review

User Interface

The VI-2300 features LIST like menu with animated icons. The UI is easy to understand and navigate. The phone is overall very fast when directed to enter a specific menu or execute a command. The only problem is the ghosting effect which I mentioned earlier.

Information Management

Phonebook

 

The VI-2300's phonebook can store up to 500 separate phone numbers in up to 300 contact entries. For every contact you can store multiple phone numbers such as mobile, home, work, page, fax as well as e-mail address and webpage. Picture ID and distinctive ring (different ring tone can be set for every contact) are also supported. The only awkward situation was when I wanted to setup voice dial for a particular contact – you can not do it from the phonebook, but you will have to go into Tools/Voice Services/Voice Dial/ Program to set it up.

PIM

The VI-2300's Personal Information management consists of Calendar, To-do list, Alarm, Calculator and World clock. The Calendar feature allows to up to 99 events, 20 To-do list or 15 alarms. Multiple events can be setup for a particular day.
The alarm clock can be setup with only one alarm, but you can make it repeat the same alarm every day.