For years there had been rumors on Sprint forums about a Sanyo smartphone; at first it was going to kill the Treo, then the BlackBerry. These were back in Sanyo’s heydays when the manufacturer was winning customer satisfaction awards left and right. That mythical smartphone never appeared, and Sanyo has fallen into the ranks of also-rans since then. Sure, there have been some decent phones, but they have yet to venture out of the featurephone market, often content to stick with entry-level devices. But now we have the Zio, the first smartphone from Sanyo to run Google’s Android platform. The Sanyo Zio is a bit of a mixed bag, offering at the same time higher-end features such as a WVGA display and low end elements like a bit of a cheap feeling. Like we said, it’s a mixed bag. Included with the Zio you’ll find a 2GB microSD card, microUSB cable and AC adapter.
