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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

Kyocera Echo Launches April 17

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


Kyocera Echo

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


Kyocera Echo

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

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