Sanyo is known for designing some unique phones and the Taho is no exception. The Taho will be available on the Sprint network at a price of $99.99 with a $50 MIR and a 2 year contract. The Taho complies with the military standard 810G where it can resist to dust, shock, extreme temperature, vibration, rain, and water-proof. Other features include the Sprint Navigation, Sprint Family Locator, 2 megapixel camera, front-ported speaker phone. Below is the full press release:

Sanyo has announced the VPC-PD2 HD pocket mini-camcorder. The VPC-PD2 shoots full 1080p video at 30fps and 10-megapixel stills. The zoom range is pretty low with a 3x optical zoom. The camera also has a wide-angle lens range of 36mm-108mm in video mode. In photo mode, the lens range is 37mm-111mm. There is a 2-inch TFT LCD on the back and a mini-HDMI port with a built-in stereo microphone and speaker. There is digital image stabilization and the mini-HDMI cable is sold separately. The VPC-PD2 pocket camcorder will cost $169.99. [ZDNet]

Sanyo has debuted the Sanyo VPC-CA102 pocket camera and it is capable of shooting full HD 1080/60i video and 14-megapixel stills. The camera can also film 10 feet under water.

The Sanyo Innuendo is being added on Sprint for a price of $49.99 with a 2 year contract. Or you can buy the device at full retail for $249.99 without the contract. The Innuendo is a horizontal flip phone with a full QWERTY keyboard. The device has a 2.8-inch internal display screen with a 1.3-inch OLED external display. The camera is 3.2 megapixel and can take video. GPS navigation is built in and there is a proximity sensor. Additional hard drive space can be added through a micro-SD card slot. Full press release below:

Sanyo announced a new Xacti camera that is perfect for social media video enthusiasts. The Xacti VPC-GH4 is a full HD 1080 video recording camera that supports Facebook, YouTube, and Picasa uploads. You can also send out Twitter notifications through the camera. Still photos are running at 10 megapixels. The retail price of this new camera is $200. It will be available on the shelves later this month. Full press release below.

Sanyo has released the world’s first waterproof full HD camcorder that is capable of recording 1080p resolution.  This is the perfect device for people who like to often go boating, snorkeling, scuba, etc. The camera is called the Sanyo DMX-CA100 and it will be available at the end of June.  The camera can record underwater at about 3 meters for up to an hour while meeting IPX8 standards.  Resolution for video is 1920 x 1080 with MPEG-4 AVC and H.264 formats.  The camera can also take 14 megapixel pictures, including 22 photos in a row at 7 frames per second if you want sequential shooting.  Zoom is 12x. [Sanyo via SlashGear]

Panasonic Corporation (NYSE:PC) has closed on an offer for Sanyo Electric yesterday. Panasonic bought about 50.19% of Sanyo in a deal worth ¥403.8 billion ($4.6 billion). Sanyo’s top three shareholders agreed to sell their stake as part of the transaction.

Sanyo is in a joint venture with Honda for hybrid car batteries. The transaction makes Panasonic a dominant player in hybrid car batteries as well.

Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. has developed a couple of new in-dash navigation systems that have built in flash memory features.  Sanyo was one of the first few companies to actually build solid state storage into navigation systems.

The new system models are the NVA-GS1409DT and the NVA-GS1609FT.  Both will be released in Sanyo’s AV Gorilla line of products.  Each in-dash nav system have a QVGA 480×240 display with 3D maps, integrated DVD player, CD ripping features, a digital TV tuner, etc.  The nav systems have a built in storage of about 16GB, but 8GB of that total is consumed by the maps and points of interest.  The additional storage can be used for playing music and using other features.  The price of the nav systems will be starting at ¥135,000.  No word on whether these devices will make it from Japan to the U.S.

[via Engadget]