Sprint Nextel (New york stock exchange:US) changed  rumors into actually using the statement that it is going to release a double-touchscreen Android-based smart phone from Kyocera soon. The l operator is hoping the smartphone, known as the Kyocera Replicate, will result in large product sales through customers looking for a cutting-edge twist on the typical Smartphone display.

The Kyocera Echo has a patent-pending rotate joint that the company stated will make the Smartphone's 2 displays to operate separately, side-by-side or combined to form 4.7-inch incorporated display.

The phone will use Search engine Android 2. 2 operating system and will assistance WiFi. It'll run more than CDMA EV-DO, Sprints network happy bith 06 tead of Clearwire's (Pink sheets .:CLWR) mobile WiMAX network.

Sprint's single other main Smartphone release to date this season had been the The brand new htc Evo Shift 4G, its 3rd telephone operating upon Clearwire's system.

The actual Kyocera Replicate offers personalized, already-loaded apps which are enhanced for that dual-screen. For example, VueQue lets customers view a video in a single display while browsing, queuing as well as loading additional videos in the other.

The device also offers 4 viewing modes: Single-Screen Mode, which acts like a single-display touch screen smart phone;

• Simul-Task Setting, which shows 2 from the mobile phone's seven core applications running at the same time however independently on dual displays;

• Optimized Mode, that allows each shows to support a single, optimized app; and

• Tablet Setting, which allows one software to become spread across both displays for any complete 4.7-inch viewing area.

The phone, which Sprint stated is going to be available sometime this particular spring, will retail with regard to $199.99 after a $100 mail-in refund. Run presently sells 1 Smartphone from Kyocera, the Sanyo Zio (Kyocera obtained Sanyo's phone company within 08).