Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) will launch a latest Smartphone from Kyocera in a media event which has two displays of touchscreen, based on a report in a Wall Street Journal.
The telephone, called the Echo, will run on Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android platform, and it is primary feature is its form factor. The report, citing an unnamed source, said the two 3.5-inch screens can be placed side by side to form a tablet-like display, and that users can function on separate tasks on every screen or drag them from one screen to another. The screen can furthermore be loaded to make a lot more standard looking Smartphone.
Sprint spokesman Mark Elliott declined to comment on the report.
In previous month Sprint requested the media the event in New York City, assuring to bring an "industry first" which proves "the impossible is possible." Sprint CEO Dan Hesse is anticipated to attend the launch event, out of the magician David Blaine.
Sprint presently helps one Kyocera’s Smartphone, a Sanyo Zio (as Kyocera obtained Sanyo's phone business in 2008). The network's only key Smartphone announces so far this time was the Evo Shift 4G from HTC, its third headset which runs on Clearwire's (NASDAQ:CLWR) cell phone WiMAX carrier. The Evo Shift is really a small translation of Sprint's flagship Evo Smartphones; also it has a complete slide-out keyboard of QWERTY. So far Sprint has not signifying if it intends any significant launches of new Smartphones, and was fairly quiet at January's Consumer Electronics Show, though it did say it'll launch a WiMAX version of Research In Motion's (RIMM) tablet PlayBook soon this summer.
Sprint reports in its fourth-quarter revenue Feb. 10. Beginning Jan. 30 Sprint increases the cost of its infinite Smartphone at $10 data service by monthly for new and upgrading customers.