Sprint Unveils Echo, World's First Dual-Screen Smartphone

From DailyTech: Yesterday, Kyocera officially announced the upcoming Kyocera Echo -- the first dual-touchscreen smartphone – which is coming to Sprint this spring.

"Until now, a single screen on a smartphone could only be used to complete one task at a time, even with limited multitasking capabilities available on some smartphones," the companies wrote in a press release. "Kyocera Echo’s second screen provides the ability to do two things at the same time and 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, comparison shop online with one web site on each screen and so much more."

The Android-based device features two 3.5-inch WVGA touchscreens connected by a pivot hinge which allows the screens to function independently from one another in Simul-task Mode, side by side in Optimized Mode, or as a single, oversized 4.7-inch display in Tablet Mode.

“Today’s busy schedules often demand that we do at least two things at once," Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said in the press release. "Kyocera Echo is the first device that allows us to do a different task on each of two screens while also providing a tablet-like, larger screen experience that easily fits in a pocket when closed.”

Here are the Echo's pertinent specs:

* Dual 3.5-inch LCD WVGA (800 x 480 pixels) capacitive touchscreens (4.7 inches diagonally and - 800 x 960 pixels when opened)
* Android 2.2 — Froyo
* 1GHz Snapdragon QSD 8650
* 5 megapixel camera with flash
* Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
* Wi-Fi
* EVDO Rev. A
* 115.0 x 56.5 x 17.2mm
* 193 grams (6.8 oz.)

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