Sprint Announces Dual Screen Android Phone, Really?

February 7th, 2011 View Comments

We have known that Sprint has had an announcement planned for a while now, but were not sure what they have been hiding. 3D phone had been mentioned several times and the hype was building that something big was coming. It is not 3D people, it is a dual-screen phone that is made by Kyocera. Yes, I said Kyocera, the Kyocera Echo is it’s whole name, to be exact.

This dual-screen phone has a 1GHz next-gen Snapdragon processor with two screens. The screens are 3.5 inch displays with a resolution of (800×480) and the device can be flipped out to make a 4.7 inch dual screen tablet or the hinge will let it act as a mini laptop. Kyocera has some special hinge with Liquid Metal technology but by the looks of the videos, we are not impressed. It has Android 2.2 running it and has some custom software built in for the dual-screen action. Hopefully this thing has a super battery to be able to stay charged for most of the day.

Kudos to Kyocera for trying to innovate, but we would like to know, is this really practical for a phone and is it something that consumers even want? Most people get slider phones because they want a physical keyboard instead of a virtual keyboard, but this is a whole new take on slider phones. Either way, we like how cool it looks and maybe this puts thoughts into other companies to come up with some new technology instead of the solid slab devices of today. What do you think?

Source engadget

Written by: Donny Benfield
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    We’d like to point out just how fluidly Froyo cruises along on the Echo,
    regardless of how many applications we’ve opened or how many times
    we’ve forced it to change orientation. In fact, we were consistently
    amazed by how well the Echo managed to handle our orientation-altering
    abuse, not to mention the daily chores of hopping in and out of our
    email, gaming and handling an influx of TweetDeck updates.

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    This is yet another case of android OEMs getting ahead of google, since
    the idea is great but since the android SDK doesnt supports dual screens
    we have one single product that needs customs made apps. This is an ideal design! If it fits in the shirt pocket and works like a
    telephone… If it folds out flat and works like a tablet. If it sits
    on the desk, open at 45 degrees or so with a virtual keyboard on the
    bottom panel and works like a netbook.

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    The screens are connected by a slick sliding liquid-metal hinge that
    Kyocera’s filed several patents on — the phone can be closed and used
    like a regular single-screen phone, unfolded all the way, or propped up
    into the faux-laptop configuration shown above. Under the hood there’s a
    1GHz second-gen Snapdragon running Android 2.2 — we’ll forgive the
    older software because Kyocera had to do extensive customization to add
    dual-screen support to seven core apps like the browser, email, and
    messaging.

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