The coolest feature of the SCP-5000 is that you can download up to 20 standard JPEG, BMP, GIF, and PNG images to the phone. The feature itself isn't very compelling, but there's more. When you receive calls from contacts in your phone book, the image will appear on the screen. Images can also be used as wallpaper on your screen. To go along with your images, you can download melodies in MIDI format.
Melodies act as ring tones and can be assigned to specific contacts as well.
To download images and melodies, Sanyo includes a serial data cable and the necessary software. The cable can also be used to turn the SCP-5000 into a modem, but speeds top out at 14.4 Kbps. To combat slow modem speeds, Sprint PCS includes BlueKite in the package. During modem calls, data is routed through BlueKite's servers to optimize information sent to your phone. BlueKite claims to provide a virtual speed of around 56 Kbps.