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Latest hybrid pedal assist eBike offers regenerative braking and coasting, efficiently managing energy and allowing a smooth, comfortable ride (at up to 40 miles per charge)

January 7, 2010 – SANYO today unveiled its eneloop bike (a hybrid pedal assist electric bicycle) to the United States mass market at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show, with this "Synergetic Hybrid Bicycle" as its initial model for the U.S.

SANYO's eneloop bike was selected as a "Best of Innovations" award winner by the Consumer Electronics Association for CES 2010 and received the highest overall score in the Eco-Design and Sustainable Technology category.

Introduced by SANYO in Japan in December 2008, the eneloop bike is a 26-inch, three-speed regenerative, pedal-assist hybrid electric bicycle. As such, riders can propel the eneloop bike under their own power or can engage the bike’s motor and electrical system to pedal in one of three assist modes – standard, power-up or auto – where the front hub-based motor helps the bicycle and rider travel forward. Read more

For just $99 (two-year service agreement, plus a $50 mail-in rebate) you can have Sprint’s One Click user interface with a device that is stylish. Thanks to LED lights there is a color palette of lighting effects that can be customized for specific callers. Set it to where the color red can be the boss, and the color pink can be your girlfriend. One Click from Sprint allows users to personalize their home screen and organize their content and features like text messages, Google Search, Sprint Navigation, email, web sites, music, call log, etc.

The Eclipse X by Sanyo will have users accessing Sprint TV (live or on-demand), the Sprint Music Store and Sprint Radio (150-channels). It features a built-in MP3 player with expansion MicroSD card slot (up to 8GB), Sprint Navigation with GPS-enabled audio with visual and turn-by-turn directions, and much more. Go check it out at the Sprint store, www.sprint.com.

This is the perfect gift for that teen in your house, or yourself for that matter. The ability to access email with this phone makes it a true communication device that is feature rich.

Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- SANYO has introduced its second-generation waterproof camcorder to the U.S. market. The sleek and compact SANYO Xacti E2 records high-quality, MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 video and 8-megapixel stills under water to a depth of five feet for up to one hour at a time, and is ideal for active lifestyles, including snow and water sports enthusiasts.

Designed to operate with only one hand, the E2 is great for taking to the slopes for skiing or snowboarding, or to the beach or lake for activities such as swimming, snorkeling, surfing and water-skiing. On dry land, the versatile E2 is a perfect choice for shooting video and still images of the new baby or recording all the spontaneous fun at parties, children's school or sports events and family outings. Read more

August 28, 2008/PRNewswire/ -- SANYO, one of the world's largest manufacturers of LCD and DLP projectors introduces the PLV-Z60, a 720p LCD projector that features SANYO's innovative 3D color management system, a high contrast ratio of 10,000:1, an installation-friendly lens shifting function, and many of other features representing a step forward in price performance for a home theater projector.

The bright PLV-Z60 is equipped with three wide 16:9 HD LCD panels that produce a 1280 x 720 pixels (2.76 million) image. A 12-bit digital processing IC provides video decoding, scaling and gamma curve generation and coupled with the projector's 10000:1 contrast ratio, the PLV-Z60 delivers exceptional picture quality with deep, rich back levels and beautifully saturated colors, even when ambient light is present. Read more

Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Katana Eclipse by SANYO, the newest entry in the Katana portfolio, gives users an exciting new way to customize their phones using assignable illumination effects. With these effects, users can see at a glance by the color and lighting pattern that is displayed who is calling, or if a text or email message has been received or if an alert has been activated. Users can choose between forty different effects using seven LED colors. The Katana Eclipse also features many other powerful multimedia capabilities including a built-in music player, access to Sprint Music Store with over-the-air music downloads, Sprint TV, Sprint Navigation, a microSDHC memory card slot, integrated stereo Bluetooth and mobile email.

The lighting effects on the Katana Eclipse provide a handy way to identify a caller when in a darkened place or when locating the phone in a purse or briefcase. They also make it helpful to identify a call in a noisy environment, such as a nightclub, or can be used when in a very quiet environment -- a call can still be identified even with the ringers and vibration mode off. In addition to customizing calls and messages, the illumination patterns can be assigned to the music playing mode, just for fun, or can be completely disabled for those times when the feature is not desired. Read more

Sept. 5, 2007 -- SANYO, one of the world's largest manufacturers of projectors introduces the PLV-Z2000 1080p LCD projector during CEDIA EXPO this week in Denver, CO. The PLV-Z2000 features a new 3D color management system with a high contrast ratio of 15,000:1, along with an advanced lens shifting function and the industry's quietest fan system. The PLV-Z2000 will be available in the U.S. in October 2007 with a MSRP of $2,995.99.

Offering a full 1920 x 1080 high definition resolution, the PLV-Z2000 delivers rich, deep and accurate colors due to SANYO's exclusive Topaz Real HD technology, a 3D color management system that addresses changes in color phase and color level to obtain perfect color reproduction. The PLV- Z2000's color management system provides 1110 times more color combinations than SANYO's 720p PLV-Z5, a total of approximately 216 billion possible color combinations. This new color management system was designed to optimize the potential of Deep Color via the projectors two HDMI 1.3 inputs. Read more

Aug. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SANYO introduces the Xacti HD1000, the world's smallest and lightest full HD digital camcorder*1. The sleek and simple-to-use device records video in Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) and also takes 4-megapixel digital still images. The HD1000 utilizes the advanced MPEG-4 AVC/H.246 video format and features a 10x optical HD lens and a large 2.7-inch widescreen display.

The SANYO Xacti HD1000 will be available in the U.S.A. in September, 2007, and has an MSRP of $799.99*2. Read more