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Virgin Mobile Announces 2011 Virgin Mobile FreeFest Date, Lineup

The Black Keys, Deadmau5, Cee Lo Green, Big Sean, TV on the Radio, and a dozen other of the year's biggest stories take the stage Saturday, Sept. 10, at Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Md. Tickets Go "On Free" to Public Friday, July 15, via Virgin Mobile LIVE on Facebook

July 11, 2011 – Founder of Virgin Group, Sir Richard Branson, along with select Virgin Mobile Live Facebook friends, unveiled the date and lineup for the Virgin Mobile FreeFest presented by Kyocera. The Billboard award-winning festival, known for breaking from traditional music events, delivered the message via a video posted on Virgin Mobile Live's Facebook page. This year it will be free again, and the festival will feature some of the most relevant, important and eclectic artists filling two Main Stages and the Dance Forest.

Virgin Mobile FreeFest will be held Saturday, Sept. 10, at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md. The lineup on the Main Stages includes The Black Keys, Deadmau5, Cee Lo Green, TV on the Radio, Patti Smith, Empire of the Sun, Cut Copy, Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, Okkervil River, Big Sean, Two Door Cinema Club, Alberta Cross, and Bombay Bicycle Club. The Dance Forest will feature James Murphy, Calvin Harris, Ghostland Observatory, !!!, Porter Robinson, Eclectic Method, and Teddybears. Read more

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Kyocera Echo to Launch with Jibe Social Messenger App

Innovative Dual-Touchscreen Android Smartphone, Exclusively from Sprint, Debuts April 17

March 22, 2011 - Kyocera Communications Inc. this week announced that the Kyocera Echo, the first dual-touchscreen smartphone, will come preloaded with a customized version of the Jibe 2.0 Social Messenger App - a new social messaging application that allows users to post and share media and status messages, and view friends, newsfeeds and comments across their current social networks. Users also can see who is online and chat with their friends from the application.

"We’ve designed Echo for an entirely new experience for smartphone users, incorporating the most used and valued features into this innovative design," said Yasuhiro Ohishi, vice president of sales and marketing at Kyocera Communications Inc. "Jibe’s Social Messenger makes Echo the ultimate mobile social media tool." Read more

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Kyocera Echo Launches April 17

by jessica on Wed, 2011-03-16 05:00

Sprint and Kyocera on Tuesday announced that the Kyocera Echo will be available on April 17, exclusively from Sprint. The nation's first dual-touchscreen smartphone, it will sell for $199.99 (with a new two-year service agreement). Beginning March 26, you can visit www.sprint.com/echo to reserve your own and be among of the first to get their hands on Echo.

Kyocera Echo operates on the Android 2.2 operating system and has two 3.5-inch WVGA touchscreen displays which can operate independently, side-by-side or combined to form an 4.7-inch (diagonal) display.

Features include:

Sprint's nationwide 3G network and Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g)
Wi-Fi hotspot capability, which supports wireless connections for up to five devices
5-megapixel camera with flash, autofocus and digital zoom
720p HD camcorder
Corporate (Exchange ActiveSync) and personal (POP & IMAP) e-mail, IM (Google Talk), text messaging
Stereo Bluetooth 2.1 (+ EDR)
Full HTML Web browser with Google Search
1 gigabyte (GB) of onboard memory and an 8GB microSD card for the external memory card slot, which supports cards up to 32GB

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Dual-Screen Kyocera Echo Smartphone Coming to Sprint

by jessica on Wed, 2011-02-09 12:12

There's a new Android smartphone coming to Sprint this spring unlike any smartphone currently in the marketplace. The Kyocera Echo is the first dual-touchscreen smartphone with the ability too do two things at once, using two different touchscreens!

Why two screens? It’s simple. By doing two things at once you can get more done - send an email on one screen while surfing the web on the other, watch a video on one screen while texting on the other…you get the picture.

You can use the dual 3.5-inch touchscreens in four ways:

Single-Screen Mode with all the functionality of a single-display touchscreen smartphone
Simul-Task™ Mode with two of the phone's seven core apps running concurrently but independently on the device's dual displays
Optimized Mode with both displays supporting a single, optimized app with complementary functionality and enhanced usability
Tablet Mode with one application spread across both screens for a full 4.7-inch viewing area

The Kyocera Echo runs on Android 2.2 and is powered by a 1GHz Snapdragon processor. Additional features include a 5-megapixel camera with a 720p HD camcorder, Wi-Fi hotspot, 1GB of internal memory, and it comes with an 8GB microSD card (supports cards up to 32GB). Read more

Sprint's Ultra-Rugged, Fully Submersible Sanyo Taho Hits Stores for $99.99

by Jon Pepper on Thu, 2010-12-09 11:40

Sprint today announced the Sanyo Taho by Kyocera, a new rugged handset that can be fully immersed in water 3.28 feet deep for up to 30 minutes. In addition to water immersion, this "military tough" phone can handle just about anything Mother Nature throws at it – dust, shock, vibration, extreme temperatures and blowing rain. The Sanyo Taho is Sprint's first fully submersible device priced less than $100.

The handset is covered in a non-slip Dura-Grip texture and has a 2-inch QVGA TFT internal display and 1-inch monochrome external display. It includes 256 MB of internal memory, a 1 GB microSD memory card (supports up to 32GB), a front-ported speaker phone and 2-megapixel camera with flash and camcorder. Read more

Kyocera Unveils New QWERTY Texting Phone and New Slider at CTIA Wireless 2009

April 2, 2009 --Kyocera Communications Inc. (KCI), the newly formed sales, marketing and service organization for Kyocera- and Sanyo-branded wireless devices in the Americas, today announced two new Kyocera CDMA handsets at the CTIA Wireless 2009 trade show in Las Vegas. The G2GO M2000 (pronounced "Good-to-Go") and Laylo M1400 address a need for affordability and value in today’s challenging economy, yet they also come from product categories in which Kyocera has rich history and expertise.

The G2GO M2000 is Kyocera's third-generation handset to offer a full QWERTY keypad in a low-cost, text-centric device. It's a category Kyocera helped to create with the introduction of the Strobe in early 2006. Kyocera's Laylo M1400 is an ultra-stylish slider design, a form factor Kyocera brought to the North American CDMA handset market in 2003 with the SE47 Slider.

"The G2GO and Laylo support our current strengths as an innovative leader in handset manufacturing providing consumers with a blend of style, functionality and affordability," said Eric Anderson, vice president of sales at KCI. "The integration of Kyocera Wireless and the former Sanyo mobile handset group is expanding those strengths to include higher-tiered handsets going forward while still providing functional, affordable and feature-rich devices like these." Read more